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reflect the highest honour on them, though' however much he may regret their decision (which he would fain hope he might, on their further acquaintance with him, induce them to alter), he openly impeaches their motives, and 'questions their right to treat him with indignity, and put an affront on the citizens of Portsoken. It seems he treated Alderman Lucas rather roughly in the Guildhall reading-room ; and the Lord Mayor complains, that while he was busied with the case of Coster, Alderman Scales termed him worse than Coster. We are by no means the apologists of any want of the courtesies of life ; but we think it quite clear that Alderman Scales meant, by saying that he was worse than Coster, that the depriving a whole community of their constitutional rights was a greater injustiee than robbing an individual, and that he looked on all who constituted the majority against him to be guilty of an invasion of popular rights. In the House of Commons, many men are returned by the people who may be exceed ingly disagreeble to the Members of the House ; but the choice of the people is never set aside, except on some ground of legal dis qualification. The House of Lords contains men, who are dishonest in every sense of the word, for a man who contracts debts without having the means ofpaying them, is unquestionably dishonest ; but as this is not a legal disquali fication, a Peer in this predicament not only votes on public questions, but adjudicates as a Judge of the last resort on questions of private right. We repeat it, there is no ground of objection to Mr. Scales, except that the Court of Aldermen do not like him. In private life, a man may choose his company ; but in public matters, he is not entitled to make his likings or dislikings a principle of action. If the Court of Aldermen cannot discover some ground of disqualification of a determinate character, they ought to remain passive. We confess, that if they are allowed to reject Mr. Scales, without assigning a cause, the right of the citizens is at an end. There is at once an end of the popular election of Aldermen. The citizens of London ought not to suffer this invasion of their rights ; they ought to consider Mr. Scales as the cham pion of their rights. All we object to is the assertion, on the part of the Court of Aldermen, of the right to arbitrary power, in setting aside the election of the citizens, without assigning a cause. If they can assign a cause which a court of law would deem valid, well and good ; but hitherto they have assigned no good cause. We look on the whole conduct of the Court of Aldermen in this case to be highly discreditable to them ; and we are much mistaken if, in these times, an'; body of men will gain in the long run by such a course of proceeding.— Morning Chronicle. The most gratifying part of the evidence be fore the Select Committee on Manufactures, Commerce, &c., is that which establishes the general improvement in the condition of the working people. In Yorkshire, the proof of improvement, in all but one class—the handloom weavers—is most satisfactory. Mr. John Mar shall, who employs 1,229 hands in his mill, excluding the mechanics employed in repairing the machinery, gives a detailed statement of the wages paid to the different work-people, classed according to their ages. He says—" I think the operatives are exceedingly well off at present —that the wages are as high now as they were during the war, when everything was so much dearer than it is at present. The " real wages measured in provisions are higher, consequently they produce more comfort." The 70 or 80 mechanics average from 20s. to 30s. a week, and some receive more than 30s. The poor handloom weavers were in a wretched condition during the war, and Mr. Marshall states their wages to have fallen 20 per cent. since the peace. " The chil dren (says Mr. Marshall) are not brought up now to hand weaving, and therefore the hand weavers will be relieved by a decrease of their num bers." This is no doubt a melancholy prospect for the old, who cannot change their occupation; but we fear the account is but too true. Mr. John Brooke, a woollen manufacturer near Hudders field, who employs upwards of 1,000 people, says, " We are giving as high wages at present as ever we did since we were manufacturers, within my knowledge." His knowledge must be pretty extensive, for he has been all his life in the trade ; and he may well be said to be a heredi tary wool manufacturer, for his great grandfather was one. It will be recollected that some strange statements were made, about the receipts of the people of Huddersfield, by Mr. Fielden, in the House of Commons. Alluding to this, Mr. Brooke says, " In consequence of statements made in the House of Commons, about the earnings of families in the neighbourhood o Huddersfield, a meeting was called of the large manufacturers, and they were requested to bring an account of the wages they were paying. I was Chairman of that meeting, and particularly requested of the gentlemen that they would be as careful as possible in any statement they might give ; and it appeared that, taking all the adults working in their mills, whatever their description of work might be, the average would be twenty shillings a-week, and taking the average of the work people of every person who attended that meeting.' Mr. Brooke, however, adds that the persons who attended the meeting were large manu facturers—that the domestic manufacturers did not pay so much as the large manufacturers. Some very curious particulars are given with regard to the hardware manufacture, by Mr. S. Jackson, of Sheffield. The manufacture, he said, had been continuously increasing of late years, with the exception of the last year, in consequence of the disturbed state of the United States of America. Mr. Jackson has visited many manufactories in Prussia, in Belgium, and in France, and they had gradually continued to improve, and he found the competition greater every journey. The operatives are very inferior to the operatives in England, as it respects their comforts and also their earnings. "At Molsheim, near Strasburg, where they employ as many hands in the manufacture of saws almost as they employ in Sheffield, the wages of labour are as twelve to one—that is to say, we have to pay for a single article as much as the manufacturer at i\lolsheim pays for a dozen. These observations were made by myself at the time of my last journey. Being a practical man, I took more interest in ascertaining the relative situation of the opera tives in the two countries. I will state, from the remarks I made, what I ascertained to be the usual terms of employment. A sawgrinder at Molsheim earns about 28 sous, or I s . 2 d. a day ; he can grind and glaze six dozen billet webs (that is a species of web of which l arge quantities are sent to Ame rica ) , which makes the price 2d. per dozen. The Sheffield price for the same work, not done in a superior manner, is two shillings and sixpence a dozen." " What would a Sheffield workman make per day at that rate ?.—He would make from 15s. to 1/. per day. This is a reduced price of this article ; some years ago they were considerably higher. We have had workmen that have earned 20s. on a Saturday morning before breakfast, when per haps they had not worked the previous part of the week." An advance of prices took place in 1810, which has been kept up in the saw-trade by combination ever since. Mr. Jackson gives the prices of provisions at Molsheim ; " house hold bread costs Id. per pound ; wheat bread 4d. per pound ; beef 3d. per pound ; potatoes 2d. per peck ; beer ld. per pint." In the Duchy of Berg in Prussia, with board, workmen re ceive from 2s. to 2s. 6d. a week ; without board, _ . ls. 2d. a day—the prices of provisions nearly as at Strasburg, except that meat is one halfpenny a pound dearer, and black bread only one half. penny a pound. The present price of provisions is nearly the same in France and England. At Lyons the price of bread, pain de menage, is three sous per pound ; the price of meat from 10 to 12 sous; a house for a workman and his family from 51. to 6/. a year, as nearly as possible the Sheffield prices. At Paris the prices would he dearer.f The wages are from a franc and a half to three francs a day. In the hardware trade the wages in England are fully three times that amount.Li Sheffield the razor forgers earn from 264. to 30s. per week, the razor strikers from 245. to 265., the hafters from 18s. to 405., the grinders from 18s. to 50s. The hours of labour are ten a day. Mr. Jackson thinks it impossible that, under any practicable diminution of profits, the Sheffield manufacturers can ulti mately maintain a competition with the conti nent. The temptation to embark capital on the continent, where wages are so much lower than here, is of course irresistible. Our workmen have the start ; the trade has been constantly increasing; but the increase on the continent is proportionably greater. The enormous increase of trade in Liverpool may be judged from the increase of dock dues. Mr. John Ewart says, _ _ _ _ that when he first joined the house in 1818, the dock dues, which are at the same rate now, were under 80,0001. per annum—they are above 180,0001. now ; 1832 was a greater year than 1831. We shall revert to this interesting subject.—Morning Chronicle. The Ministerial Papers continue to cajole the public respecting a forthcoming commercial treaty with France, to reciprocate the advantages of free trade which our pseudo-Liberals con ceded to that country some years ago, to the manifest prejudice of our own manufacturers, without stipulating for any facilities to English commerce in return. The gross blunders of Huskisson and his party—the political econo mists—in opening the markets of this country to our foreign rivals, and in breaking down the navigation laws to which Great Britain was mainly indebted for her commercial and mari time superiority, inflicted upon the vital interests of the nation a wound from which they have never yet recovered, and, probably, never can:: In the exercise of a spurious liberality, the manufacturers of France were enriched by the impoverishment of our own. The French work men were put into full employment, while thou sands of our most skilful artisans were deprived of the means of earning their daily bread, and thrown upon the cold charity of the parish. That France and England are in a situation to enter fairly into the competition of free trade, we deny. The former is a cheap and lightly taxed country—the latter one of the dearest and most heavily taxed in the world. The cost of production is so much greater in the lat. ter than in the former country, that the French manufacturer is always able to undersell the English, even in his own markets, with out high protecting duties. The political economists talk egregious nonsense on this subject. They, like all mere theorists, apply abstract principles to a state of society which does not admit of their application. They talk of freedom of trade without perceiving that it is impossible for English manufacturers to enjoy that freedom as long as the industry of the country is cramped and enslaved by a most op pressive system of taxation. If taxes were taken off British industry, we would say let protection be removed also, for in that case we feel confi dent the British manufacturer would beat every foreign rival. But where there is the pressure upon industry of heavy legislative burdens, there should be the countervailing power of legislative protection. The protection in some important branches of our manufacture has been taken away by the political economists, who induced a shallow and ignorant Legislature to adopt their theories and write them in its laws ; but the burdens still remain, and while they do, even if we were to have a reciprocal treaty with France, the two countries would not be on equal terms. But we have no reciprocal treaty. Never did greater infatuation possess the minds of men having the destinies of a vast empire in their hands than that which induced the rulers of this country, when the star of Huskisson was in the zenith, to break down the pro tective legislation of our trade, and allow the bread of the children of our own soil to be snatched from him by the foreigner, who had long viewed our commercial prosperity with a jealous eye, and who still hopes to establish his own mercantile system upon its ruins. If, however, a reciprocal treaty could be obtained with France, it might work some alleviation of the injuries which our manufac turers have sustained by what is called the " free trade" system, though it could not repair all the evil which it has occasioned. Ever since the Whigs came into power, we are told, from time to time, that the negotiations for the treaty are in progress and that it is about to be accom plished. Nearly three years have now elapsed, and, like the settlement of the Belgic question, it seems about as far off as ever. The other day a Alinisterial Morning paper adverted again to the subject, by publishing the following statements of one of its private correspondents at Paris :—" Mr. Poulett Thomson, who, as you are aware, has been here some time engaged in negotiations with the Minister of Commerce, relative to a long contemplated commercial treaty, is about to return to London. I am as sured that Mr. Thomson has reason to be satis fied with the progress of the negotiations, and carries with him a hope, amounting almost to a certainty, that a treaty of reciprocal and equal advantage to both countries will be at length entered into between the two Governments. The French Ministers are, there is every reason to believe, sincerely desirous that the commercial relations between France and England should be placed on a better foot ing than they have been till now. The King himself is a warm advocate for the project of the reaty now under discussion. The only difficulty still to be apprehended is in the opposition of certain influential Members of the Chamber of Deputies, to whose r y ra r n iv c a e te o in f te ß re r s it t i s sh a treatyfor the admissio n into manufac tures might threaten to prove detrimental. How ever well fiisposed the Members of the Execu tive towards the projected improvement in the commercial relations of France, they must once more consult the feeling of the majority of the Chamber, before they can venture to put their names to a treaty." We are quite wearied of hearing of those " never-ending, still-begin ning " negotiations of Mr. Poulett Thomson with the French Doctrinaires, and of his " hopes, amounting almost to a certainty." Unless some thing more definite can be stated, it would be more prudent for our own Doctrinaires to be silent on the subject. They but remind the country of their fatal blundering, in throwing open our trade to France first, and begging for a commercial treaty afterwards. It is clear that the majority of the Chamber of Deputies are aware of the folly which our Statesmen have committed. They know that that folly has been productive of great advantages to the manufactu ring interests of France, at the expense of her ancient rival, and they are resolved not to part with them.--Morning Herald. The liberal scheme of Government promises to produce a rich harvest of advantage to the interests of England, with respect alike to its foreign and its domestic concerns. The em ployment of a combined army of horse, foot, artillery, and police, the necessary presence of the Sheriff of Middlesex in propriis persons, the trembling conclave at Whitehall while the process was in operation, that terrible process being no other than to collect some few pounds sterling of revenue from an individual or two in the parish of Marylebone, might have afforded symptoms sufficiently unequivocal of the happy effect of the liberal scheme of Government in relation to our domestic affairs, if the illustration were not yet more striking, which is presented to us when we see a proclamation placarded through our streets offering free pardon and a rich reward to any one of some thousands of individuals who will impeach any one of his colleagues in forcibly rescuing in the streets of the metropolis, from the gripe of the officer of the law, certain chairs and tables, forfeited, or, at least, seized, on account of the refusal or neglect of their owner to pay to the King taxes granted by Parliament in the ordinary exercise of its powers. The scene is new. It is the result of a liberal scheme of Go vernment according to the new acceptation of the term liberality. The effect of the same scheme is not less happy in its operation upon our foreign affairs. In conjunction with France, and aided by the influence of her name and the power of her arms, Great Britain is enabled to force upon Portugal the blessing of a civil war. Who, after this, can doubt that the true glory and welfare of England depends upon the liberal scheme of government which she has adopted ? But this is not all. Great Britain, the liberalised Government of Great Britain, can boast of a still higher achievement. Holland, whose security and independence has always, in illiberal aloes, been supposed to constitute one of the very first of the foreign interests of Great Britain, is placed in collision with Belgium, and Belgium in the strictest alliance with, and most absolute depen dence upon, France. The combination is perfect. It is such as no other than a liberal Government could ever have had the genius or courage to conceive or adopt. Of Spain we speak not yet. The Spaniards may perhaps be unreasonable enough to think that they have some right to manage their own affairs. But so far as Great Britain may have anything to do with Spanish affairs, the course of liberality is plain and straightforward: it must be congenial with that which has been pursued towards Portugal and Holland—it must be that which is best calculated to throw all political power into the hands of those who will be most disposed to wield the power they possess in subserviency to the Li beral Government of France. What is the use of liberality if it cannot induce the Liberal Go vernment of England to do every thing in its power to promote the objects and extend thein fluence of the Liberal Government of France ? It does, however, happen, lamentable as it must be considered, that in this world there is nothing altogether perfect. The liberalism which seems to have succeeded so well in Marylebone, i n Portugal, and in Holland, and with respect to the success of which in Spain there is at present no visible reason to despair, does not at present ap pear to be equally prosperous in the East. Li beralism has, however, done something even in this untractable portion of the globe. It fought the glorious battle of Navarin. It destroyed the Turkish marine. It imparted strength, and insured a certain degree of success to the revolt of the liberal Pacha of Egypt. It enthroned the liberal King Otho, and made him a present of some millions of English money. It stepped in at the critical moment to secure success to the revolt of the liberal Greek chiefs, whom the libe ral King Otho finds to be such excellent and trustworthy subjects. But liberalism, powerful as it is, is still something less than omnipotent. The Emperor of Russia, although he had his full share of the glory of Navarin, contributed to the liberal rescue of the liberal chieftains of Greece, had a hand in the manufacture of the liberal Greek King, is still not absolutely a liberal. He likes Turkey. He imagines that the command of the passage of the Dardanelles may one day or other prove convenient to him. And, by the aid of the liberalism of western Europe, although to the mortification of its professors, he has acquired, for eight years at least, which means until it be wrested from him by a superior Power, the command of the Dar danelles. Turkey is now by means of the efforts of European liberalism united to Russia. A treaty, offensive and defensive, subsists between these Powers, which is to remain in force for eight years, and by which the Ottoman Porte engages to close, in case of need, the straits of the Dardanelles ; " that is to say, it will not permit the entrance of any foreign vessel, even under any pretext whatever." Against this treaty the French and English ambassadors have remonstrated. It offends the liberal ism of the West. Those of our contempo raries who most applauded the battle of Navarin, and the whole course of liberal policy of which that achievement was the consummation and the h e tglory,treaty, y, they are the loudest u i s n t t a h b e s ir ol a u e t c e l l a y ma b t e ions rr re scinded. To be sure it must, when they can rescind the battle of Navarin, and the settlement of Greece, and the passage of the Balkan, and the victories of the Egyptian Pacha. At pre sent the great Seignior, in spite of his national gravity and of his individual losses and mortifi cations, laughs at the liberalism of Western Europe, as it is represented by the ambassadors of France and England, and by our still more vehement contemporaries. We published on Friday last the answer of the Porte to the protest of the ambassadors of the two liberal Govern ments. It says that the tr eaty i s not aggress ive; that the Porte is independent, and is not called upon to justify its conduct; that it expected the treaty would have had the applause of all the Powers interested in the maintenance of tran quillity ; and that there are no grounds for the observations of the two Ambassadors. This, of course, will be satisfactory. Turkey in offensive and defensive alliance with Russia is not weak. Is there not Holland to attack and coerce ? Is there not Portugal to injure and insult ? Is there not Spain, promising an early field for the less hazardous display of liberal inter vention ? Why then should the liberal Go vernments of England and France be so indis creet as to meddle with Turkey, powerful as she now is, in her alliance, offensive and defensive, with Russia? When Turkey was unprotected the case was altogether different. Modern liberalism could then afford to be as brave against Turkey, as it now is against Holland and Portugal.—Morning Post. Thank Heaven the eyes of the supporters of his Majesty's Government are at length begin ning to open to the real importance of the pre servation of the Turkish empire from the fangs of Russian ambition, and to the pusillanimous policy which dictated, on a recent occasion, a non-interference in its behalf, to the prejudice of all existing interests in Europe, and the benefit of Russia only. We say that they are beginning to open : because we find in the last number of the Edinburgh Review, now specially devoted to the support of the present Govern ment, an article of no inconsiderable merit, in which the advantages which this country might derive from Turkey are amply detailed—the spirit of Russian ambition truly and boldly portrayed—and the manner in which Russia might be coerced, in case of her continuing to manifest a determination to add Turkey to the _ . list of her provinces, clearly pointed out. It is true that we have already, on more than one occasion, gone over the same ground, and inculcated that same course of policy, the adoption of which is now so ardently urged upoa the Government by the friendly writer of the article in question ; sed fas est et ab poste doceri—we spurn not aid from whatever quarter it may proceed, and our readers will, perhaps, excuse us if we now draw somewhat largely upon our quarterly contemporary for a confirmation of the opinions which we have advanced. Speaking of the commercial advan tages held forth by Turkey to the enterprise of our merchants and manufacturers, the writer justly observes that— " The raw silks of Roumelia, the wool of Dalmatia, the cotton of Thessaly, the corn, flax, tallow, and hides of Bulgaria, the fruit and drugs of the coast, and the copper of Trebezonde,—the annual produce of whose mines has been estimated at more than three thousand tons,—would best buy and circulate our manufactured silk and cotton, and hardware goods, with which we can everywhere undersell the rest of the world. The demand for our goods would rapidly improve the qua'ity, and increase the quintity, of the raw material furnished by the natives of Turkey ; indeed, the alread y increased call for silk at Salo nica has introduced the Piedmontese method of reeling and preparing it, which bas not only essentially improved the quality of the article, but reduced its remunerating price from three shillings and sixpence to two shillings per pound. A like stimulus would produce a like effect on cotton, wool, and other articles. " That some notion may be formed of the vast field which a liberal policy might open to our manufactures, we will merely state, that the average consumption of coarse cotton stuffs in Turkey may be taken at 21b. per head ; which, at the usu ii price paid there of ss. per lb., will give, on a population of 12,000,000, the large sum of 6,000,000/. This is entirely independent of the annual outlay for the more fine and costly articles, to which our exports were at first chiefly confined. Since they have been directed to handkerchiefs, shirting, long cloths, and more common stuffs, they have risen to above 1,000,0001. for cotton goods alone, exclusive of the twist, the demand for which is also increasing. As we can supply these articles cheaper and better than the natives ' can manufacture them, or than they can buy them from other markets, there appears one reason only why these exports should not gradually approximate to the total consumption of Turkey; namely, her present inability to purchase ; and this inability is created by our refusing to receive and import her produce in exchange for our goods. We thus lose a vent of perhaps several millions for our cottons alone. From Turkey, too, the demand and supply would spread tar and wide into the southern and Asiatic provinces of Russia. " In common equity we are called upon to adopt this liberal policy towards Turkey ; for, since she imposes slight or no duties upon our good., the sticklers for reci procity can have no plea for continuing our heavy restric tions upon the importation of her raw material." All these advantages, so clear and so unan swerable, the present Government has placed in jeopardy by its pusillanimity, or rather, we should say, all but transferred to that arch enemy of civilization, Russia; and the writer of the article, though he does not own to the fact, sees it to be the case : " Will peace and tranquillity be insured ? 'Will the sullen Turk submit to the innovations of French habits, and the co-equality of Christian subjects ? And will the ambitious and insidious neighbours of Turkey allow her time and repose to consolidate her strength ? Will they not be tempted to take advantage of her present state of transition, and seek, under the cloak of fair pretences and amicable intervention, to sow the seeds of discord, in order that the crumbling and disjointed body which now composes the empire, may, by the wear and tear of a bit by_bit encroachment, fall gradually under their influence, till it silently, and without provoking the intervention of Europe, shall merge in their dominions? " This is much to be feared ; and of all enemies, Tur key has most reason to dread her new ally, Russia. The inscription of Potemkin upon the southern gate of Cherson yet remains the index of her views—' This is the road to Constantinople.' From and before the day that inscrip tion was blazoned before the eyes of insulted Europe, the constant object and practice of Russia has been encroach , ment on the territories of Turkey. The peace of Car lowitz gave her the first footing on the sea of Azoff ; and though the disasters of Peter the Great on the Pruth, and the Imperial dissensions which attended the factious reigns of his early female successors retarded, yet they did not quench the thirst for spoliation. This passion broke forth in full vigour under Catherine the Second; and from the re-possession of Azoff, and the acquisition of a footing on the Crimea in 1774, the course has been rapid and unblushing. At each successive peace Russia has advanced from the Dnieper to the Bug, from the Bug to the Dniester, from the Dniester to the Pruth, and latterly, from the Pruth to the Danube. This last stride was made at the treaty of Adrianople, when, as usual, she declared that she required no extension of territory what ever ; but not the less secured the east coast of the Euxine, with half of Georgia, and stipulated for privileges in the principalities, and for the demolition of the Turkish fron tier fortresses as far as Belgrade, whereby her fron tier was virtually planted on the Danube. And lastly, by her late amicable intervention, she has secured a command ing influence at Constantinople itself." Aye "a commanding influence" indeed, and through whose fault ? That of the Sultan ? No. He had no other means of saving him self, even for a time, but through that of England, which, however busily she might be engaged in " important affairs," or however lately " the Parliament might have sat"—lame and impotent excuses—ought to have come Russian uun n s sreb c ksei e liteni: nyun,ds a sanilatvadgtinotoghnrpiai cut nlieEtsdr gza aggrandizement. end intrigue, na to a strife tn. diechhehasct. forward e o n ri d g e ir d iat i i n n a g t ownd g h a l England da in lav t at e r r t e h s te, betweenbaanc w i A li o m li uld a i n s h d a n v o e T t k of the latter, was a contest from which he the su l t a golden o d opportunity sec uring exclusive ofhad better retire. But, w i t h a f a t u ity whi c h was perhaps never e qua ll e d , not to say exce ll e d, supporting commercial the advantages, was lost--the Sultan was, in spite of himself, thrown into the arms of Russia, eagerly stretched forth to embrace him in their serpent folds—and the virtual indepen- Bence of a whole state completely compromised, if not surrendered. The Russians have not only found out the way to Constantinople, but they have been there—they have made themselves acquainted with every inch of the road—every creck and current of the Bosphorus is known to them—their engineers and naval officers have made plans of the city and its defences—and, finally, the Autocrat has compelled the Sultan to sign a treaty offensive and defensive, containing various secret articles and stipulations, of which no other opinion can be given than that it binds Turkey to Russia by bonds which she can only break by the manly support of England and France. Will this support be given ? Will ad vantage be taken, even at the eleventh hour, of the encroachments of Russia, to rescue Turkey from her grasp ? We hope and trust that it will. Honour and interest demand it—the peace of Europe and the proper equilibrium of its different powers imperiously call for it—and we are not without hopes, both from informa tion which we have received, and from what is said on the subject in the article from which we have already quoted so largely, that his Majesty's Ministers are even now busily engaged in en deavouring to repair the very grievous error of which they have been guilty. Let them to the work with a good heart and a determined mind, and if Russia will not listen to proper remon strance, let the thunder of the British navy be called upon to allay her pride and silence her pretensions.—Morning Advertiser. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) The Market remains in a very languid and depressed state, principally owing to the heavy prompts for the late large speculations, in which payments considerable diffi . . curies have arisen, and the goods have been forced on the market for peremptory sale ; this will continue to be the ease for a week or two loner, when a considerable alteration may be reasonably expected. SuaAß.—The Sugar Market continued very heavy all the last week, and although many of the principal holders would not sell at,any reduction yet there were rather ex tensive sales privately at lower prices. On a careful comparison of the samples with last Tuesday's, the price. ar•e 6d. to Is. lower ; the estimated sales of last week were 1,800 hhds. and trs. The stock of West India Sugar is now 51,548 hhds. and tilt., being 7,821 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius '79,153 bags, being 25 967 more than last year. The delivery of West India is 2,269 Mids. and tie., being 1,371 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius is 3,281 bags, being 3,701 less than the corresponding week of 1832. The Sugar Market is still heavy ; the estimated sales this day are only 400 hhds. and trs. ; the prices are Is. per cwt. lower than on Tuesday last. The Refined Market was very heavy all the last week, and the prices gradually declining ; fine Crashed 335. a 325. 6 , 1., and low parcels at 32s , and parcels good for melting 665. a 665. 6d. ; low Lumps, 635. The Market remains very heavy. MAURITIUS SUGAR.-The few purchases of Mauritius last week were at previous prices. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—Bengal Sugar has been offered at rather lower rate., on account of the approaching sale ; low white Siam has been in demand for refining at 225., and good for export at 245. 6d. a 255. FOREIGN SUGAR.-There are no public sales or private contracts reported ; the prices are entirely nominal. Ave rage price of Sugar, 1/. 12s. per cwt. `VEST INDIA 111oLassas.—The demand and the prices of West India Molasses improve; some purchases of Grenada are reported at 265., and large parcels of Demerara have been sold at 275. COFFER.-The only new feature in British Plantation Coffee has been that the great proportion brought forward at public sale has been taken in ; there is no alteration in the currency, but the market is exceedingly heavy. The chief sales last week were about 1,000 bags Ceylon 60s 6d., and 615., and above 700 bags were afterwards refused at public sale, the litter good and fine ord., all taken 61s. a 655. ; good ord. Brazil sold 625. a 635. 61. There were no public .ales this day, and up to a late hour no purchases by private contract were reported. COCOA.—Cocoa continues neglected; no sales are reported. * RCM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The Rum Market continues heavy, the prices will drooping, except the fine Jamaicas, which are held firmly ; a parcel of good fair Jamaica 29 over sold 2s. 9id. ; and a parcel of proof Leewards at 2s. Brandies are particularly heavy, on account of the prospect of considerahle supplies; riles are made with difficulty at 3s. Bd. per gallon off the qu iy for puncheons first marks. In Geneva there is no alteration. Wives.—The Port Wine Market is unusually active ; all parcels of Port which arrive, of good fair quality up to fine, are eagerly sought after at good prices, varying from 341. to 451. per pipe. All accounts concur in represent ing that good and fine Wines had risen at Oporto, and were far from abundant. In other Wines we have no novelty to notice ; there are some good Cape now landing at 11/. per pipe. There are some consigned Sherries at market so low as 121. to 161. French Wines are nearly unsaleable. TALLOW. —The Tallow Market suddenly gave way Is. per cwt. yesterday, on account of large sales, particularly for forward delivery, in the anticipation of large supplies next season. This afternoon the Market is still heavy. 1832. 1833. Stock of Tallow on Monday 17,765 33,584 Delivery last week 3,506 2,310 Delivery from the let of June 47,395 49,316 Arrival last week 5,502 2,353 Arrival from the Ist of June 57,628 76,815 Price YC on Monday...42s. 3d. a 425. 6d. 445. 6d. Price of Town last Friday ... 465. 6d. 50s. SILK.—Raw Silk may be quoted 6d. to Is. 6d. per lb. higher than before the E. I. sale, but Thrown is heavy of sale even at the old prices. Immao.—The Nlarket continues without any animation ; the few that have been disposed of are chiefly of former sales to settle accounts at prices fully 6d. per lb. under the last Eist India House sale. COCHINEAL.—The demand is limited, and prices still drooping ; the late arrivals and public sales have already depressed this article to within 6d. a 9d. per lb. of the point at which the speculation commenced. LAC DYE.—The very low rates of Lac Dye have pro duced more business in it, and brought some buyers into Market. SALTPETRE.—SaItpetre is very heavy, and rather low in price. SPlCES.—Pimento sold id. higher last week. Pepper is very heavy, and still declining prices TOBACCO.—The demand is confined to small parcels for home consumption ; the prices are, however, well maintained. Hors.—The Hop Market is very heavy, as the buyers evince no disposition to purchase largely at the present prices. The estimated duty r,mains steady at 155,0001. RICE.—Rico is heavy, but there is little alteration in the prices. OlL S .—Fish Oils are steady in price, though but little doing in them. Rape Oil a shade lower. Linseed Oil has advanced 6d. to 9d. per cwt., and large purchases have been made for all deliveries up to March next for exportation and for home trade ; not any sellers now without a further advance. TURPENTINE. -•Ns arrivals or sales. Fauir.—By public sale on Wednesday 1,244 boxes, 1,012 half and 350 quarter boxes, and 282 cartoons new Muscatell Raisin s were o ff ere d , part only of wh i c h were sold, the boxes at 105 s. a 1100., h al f b oxes 1 1 5 5 ., quarter ditto 120 s. a new Bloom Rai s i ns at 86s ; an d 108 b arre l s , 150 c ase s, and 396 boxes 1225., and cartoons 130 s. ; also 94 boxes Cape Raisins at 275. a 425. according to quality, dama ge d 255 . a 29 5 . Of ne w V a l e ntia Raisins there continue to b e arr i va l s , and they ate taken off steadily at 48 '• Of new Patras Currants - also there are two • cargoes arriv-d, the price named for which is 82e. for butts, and 84s. for caroteels, at which a few have been sold. By public sale yesterday the first arrival of Turkey Fruit this season wus brought forward ; it consisted of 9,500 drums new Turkey Figs, of which about one third sold 583. a 60s. TEA.-The msrket continues flat ; Boheas, large and half chests, 3s. 104 d. a Ss. laid., duty paid ; Congou chests 3s. 1 lid. a 3s. 114 d. ; Congous and Twankays about sale prices. COTTON.—There is a complete suspension in the demand for Cotton ; the late sales consist only of a few Surate about id. lower. GLASGOW MARKETS, Ocr. 26. There has been a fair business done in Raw Sugars this week ; the sales amount to about 400 hhds. and trs. Moist browns for refining 535. 6d. ; dry browns for the scale 545. a 555. 6d. ; mid. and good mid. 565. a 585., and good 595. a 595. 6d. 100 puncheons of Demerara Niolams were sold at 27e. 6d. from the quay. Refined Sugars are still dull ; brown loaves 721. up to 820_, at i • fine, double loaves S7s. a 9 5 5. Candy 10 d. a lur Crashed Sugar is scarce, and in brisk demand, and the lower qualities fully 2s. dearer ; browns and yellow s 565. a 60s. ; mid. and good middling 60 s. a 635 . 3 and fine 645. a 675. Treacle has been in brisk demand, and extensive Illea Rum fiat, made at 225. 3d. a 225. 6d., and 235. now deman ded. Eagt No sales made in Coffee, Pimento, Ginger , or India Rice. Jamaica 16 over, 2s. Bd. a 2s. 9d. ; an Leewards 2s. a 2s. Id. for proofs. Nothing done in Dyewoods. Ashes are dull of sale ; Pots 235. 6d., and Pearl. 254. 6d. a 265. Y. C. Tallow is selling in small parcels at 47e. 5 4 474. 6d. 0 01 ' Wbale Oil 181., Cod and Seal are nominally held a t per tun, old measure. dies c ,a, ct:UN FRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE W....:;... , " • Wheat. Barley. I Oats. .2..3ea>.*, -- . n Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s• 4 '40 Boston .. 45 50 26 32 16 22 :33 40 Gainsborough --........— 57 34 18 -- 40 Grantham —....... 46 53 20 34 20 26 3 5 40 Grimsby 46 55 28 32 16 20 38 40 Horncastle Lincoln Spilsby. 42 50 26 30 16 20 40 45 Stamford 46 54 27 34 18 22 37 41 York-- .. 50 64 26 32 14 22 NORWICH, Oet 26. na.gQl Wheat (per qr.) .... 445. 545. 58s. I Beans (per qr.) 8ar1ey..,.,........... 20s. 265. 28s. Pease, 28s. 0 4 4. Oats CANTERBURY, Oct. 26 Wheat, white 575. to 635. W red 483. to 6 , 15. —s. to Barley, Malting -- 263. to 325. Grinding.. 225. to Oats 20s. to 255. 20s. to Beans 31s to 355. Pease 30s. to 365. Grey to 30s. •r-, MANCHESTER, Oct. 26. ci , 9 4 ' Wheat, per 701 b. Bs. Od. to Bs. 2d. Red 7s. N. to I, ''/ Barley, per 60Ib 5 0 5 6 Oats 3 2 3 0 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 6 0 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 1 8 , 42 0 Flour, per Sack of 2201 b 4O 0 46 IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NO' RKETS. `TE.—FRIDAY, Oct. 25. df, From To Aver') 2,405 Wheat,per barrel 2.0 stone 21 0 32 0 24 1 0 494 Bele _ 16 stone 10 0 12 3 10 1 370 Barley l6 stone 11 0 13 6 12 ji 3,349 Oats 12 stone 7 9 13 6 ° 17,069 Cwt. Flour—,—. 9 stone 5 0 20 0 9 911 Oatmeal . B stone 8 9 13 0 10 Sold to Bakers only. 1 6 11 .3,212 Cwt. Flout Average price of Wheat and Flour 43.. 4d. per sac COs,' Firsts, from 18s. Od. to 17.g'. Receipts of Flour, 13,5011,., Sales of Do. 17, 0 69 T hirds, PRICE OF d. Quartern Loaf. is, fro ; g •••••••••M fro. BREAD, Half Qu )m 14s. Od. nn 53. Od. to to P gg. CORK MARKFTS.—Oct. 26. Wheat (per 20st.) Barley (per 16st.) Oats (per 14st.) Flour (per cwt.) 5 0 19 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 10 0 Beef, sd. to 6d. ; Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal, 6d. to 6. ' Pork, 2d. to 24d. ; Fresh Butter, 11d. to 12d. per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. tri . To the Merchants. To the C OOO 775. 6 8 5. 73 63 64 55 55 45 __,.. First Quality Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth CLONMELL MARKETS.—Oct. 25. Per Cwt, s• s. d. s. d. s. d• .„ 04 6 New Butter 72 oto 75 0 Hides (raw) 32 0 , Oatmeal 10 6 0 Bacon Pigs .4 0 9,0 Rendered Lard 40 0 42 0 Heads 18 0 Per Bag. / O 3 2 0: Flour, Thirds 24 0 0 / O 30 0 Fourths 14 Per Barrel. 1 5 O O r arley 11 0 1 O 11 0 Coals Per tone. 61 24 1 3 11 3/ Tallow (rough) 5 6 0 7-,1 0 0 P o t a to es 0 ) Per ound. 0 0 Fresh Butter 1 0 1 2:Mutton 3.1 0 "el 0 `2i 0 41Vea1... Flour, Second —Household— Rapeseed '2O Bere 10 Wheat 1 Oats 0 ....... . o •0 ct KILKENNY.—Butter 82s. to 85s. per cwt. ; Wheat zu 6 ' ty per barrel; Flour 12s. to 30s. per bag; Oats B s. to 10s. P }); Motto. , rel ; Raley 10s. to 12s. ; Beef 4d. to 40. per lb.; g; to H. ; Potatoes" 4d. per stone; Coals Is. Id. per cwt.; Pigs 265. to 275. dd. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN AI AISKET.—Oct. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Pease. FirSt 64s Od 35s Od I 22. Oel 9.s Od Second sss Od 30s Od 2 0 s Od 31s Od Third There were 434 qrs. of Wheat in market, 418 whereof 16 Unsold.-0 Grey. ..W. 15s. Ild.o-12the 3483°1'sell: 0 1 :' were A veragi DA CORN NARKET.—Oct. 24. 0 0 06 0, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 1 3 4 First 64s Od 32s Od 23s Od 34s Od Second 42s Od 23s Od 18s Sd Lid MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET (From the London Gazette.) of , ,I I TO-MORROW, Oct. 31. H. J. Hogg, auctioneer, Portsea, Hamp5hire............"' I ' 1I DIVIDENDS . ", It. M. Frisby, wine-merchant, Mark-lane ...................... Agne s 731°6' On the 29th inst., in Eaton-square, the Lady a daughter. lady e lf On the ‘Xd inst., in Rutland-square, Dublin, the ward J. Smith, Esq., of a son. ~ 9 On the 22el inst., the lady of Sir Francis Lynch Blos''' ..ti , of a son. li t On the 19th inst., at Maristow, the lady of Sir Ralph 4, Bart., M.P., of a son. or On the 20th inst, in Mount Radford Park, the lady ° f $, Cardew, R. E., of a son. 101 oi On the 18th inst., at Jennymount, Belfast, the .1, Thomson, Esq., of a son. lady i CV On the I 7th inst., at Blackrock, near Cork, the la- , 0 p , Eyre Coot, Esq., of a daughter. if Pe o On the 27th inst,, at Fluder House, Ki ngs k e rswe. , , jf shire, the lady of Henry Langford Brown, Esq., o f a S° o ,tler On the 10th inst., at Breage Vicarage, Devonshire, '/ BIRTHS. of the Rev. Horatio Todd, of a son and heir. 111/IRRIED. .°tl l o ' On the 14th inst., at Edinburgh, John Loft us Esq., 3d Bengal Light Cavalry, to Isabella, daughter ° ander Gordon, Esq., Great King-street. On the 17th inst., at Pitminster, Somersetshire , Colman Rashleigh, Bart., of Prideaux, Cornwall, r°oo youngest daughter of the late John Gould, Esq. , Truro, in the same county. „i On the 19th inst., at St. James's, Poole, Hen. , all• Esq., solicitor, Salisbury, to Emily Susan, eldest 413 Thomas Esq of the same place. , 0 1° 0 , On the 19th Salter, inst.,. , Francis R. Thomson, Esq., Car Io Engineers, to Selina Harriet Cotton, widow of the Macartnioy, Esq. he lOine4 On the 21st inst., at Mottram, in Longdendale, t 1 4g Brook Aspland, to Jane, fourth daughter of Randal.' f i r Esq., of Godley, in the county of Chester. te I On the 22d inst., at Henbury Church, the Rev. H e a d' s Way, second son of Benjamin Way, Esq., of Dun.' o f ' Bucks, to Susanna, daughter of Thomas Daniel , Esq.' bury. On the 22d inst., at Brockley, Mr. Thomas Drake, oets ner, to Emma, youngest daughter of Win. Cox, Et.oiloX On the 22d inst., William Acton, Esq. , of Wolves 11 county of Worcester, to Mary, widow of the late .0119. of Pieremore in the same county. of f ry On the 21st inst., at Glossop, Mr. Mathew M iller, o confectioner, joiner, and bailiff, aged 63, to Miss l e ifo i 41 of the same place. This is the fourth time the bre d o f paid his devotions to the hymenial altar. o ° ' At Cametringane House, Berehaven, R. O'Don -0 aloft Lodge, in the county Cork, Esq., to Maria, eldeor lo leq c , the late M. O'Sullivan, Esq., of Conlough, in the o ,on e Yk On the 29th inst., at All Souls' Church , Maille,p, Wood, Esq., of Horton Hall, Bradford , Yorkshitor 4.44, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hardy, Esq., M.P. , for place, London. P "' 0 11 ,4 11' 0 1 On the 28th inst., at South Stoneham , Hants, voile, ham, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Medicine in tb e vice' A 9 Glasgow, to Caroline, eldest daughter of the late il del‘' sir Edward James Foote, K.C.8., &c. &c., of W Hants. 40 tt ~s Jues th, 1 'lli, h t'rei f qufr 4ti. ee ileze N co A,, b,, ,' JO, N--7, Th, 14 're 14.1 1:41' P4ti , 0] t th e V it !f U '°ll tb~ hi e s mw N t tel h t) lth u. Ye .4t ',lt • 4 t(i 4 1 ;111t,41, Hants. ...........- Ar . O F kti , 4,1 l DIID.Iea f', ( I Y u, f On the 13th inst, in Baggott - street , Dublin, ' /Pi 41 ol i ! John Croker. ea ii3l b 4 ' ' On the 16th inst., in Tralee, Mr. T. Melvin, ag per' f , \' k CJr ' ,. 'i On the 20th inst., at Mount Radford Terrac e 'o4 , ~ 0 1 i t 'd A l aged 70, Elizabeth, widow of the late T. Burnett, ' f i t.) ii 4 i]`e wich, Kent. 3 5, Il e Po l 4' 4 get' p ti 1 ' i n On the 21st inst, at Liskeard, Mary Baron, 2 .-Aiic - of' i le 5 ) „ 41 illness of 15 years' continuance, in the course of ". o es , io yff I tl A - "ltj bled in the ordinary way, with the lancet, 4 ° 01 , I t 4 'tti leeches, 22 times. ~,t C° o 0 ,1,+4 ( 1), On the 24th inst., at Limerick, Deputy Assi''''' . 0 , , '. ' l2 ifl t General John Lewis, half-pay. Gla d or #l6 k„, 010. 44 'NI, On the 16th inst., at his house, Port-Dundas, 4 , ,t, (it ~ Wilson, Esq. s sf, r 0 4.4tq t On the 15th inst., at Dungannon DistillerY,*. , . 0 0' I `, ' t o ils 2 .0 I, A t distiller, late of Paisley, aged 28. ..e. lia V , ti, On the 15th inst., at Annfield, Dalserf, ," J P ' r „ ' of Annfield, aged 67. k for''' 00 0 ~',, 'nt On the 19th inst., at Malabhay, Irongral' .1. 0 0 0 N, aged 84. —4,00 I ' Of , it ".I.' 4 0 4 ~ On the 18th August, at Demerara, N J. ' • o ff' t, i ll "' the late Rev. T. Thomson, Pathhead, Fife. ~/ 0 , t(i t ,-, vOV ' , N 4 '''' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED RIC MU RD v - I 11, VI • ' SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAN D. ? i , 1 1„ . 14 .11,i`tli It tl Pi 'et' C;ti 41]