The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-14 00:00:00

s►PIRIT OF THE MLR' JOMALS The obvious and imperative duty of the Govern ment, on receiving intelligence of the disastrous events at Bristol, was to have appointed a Com mission of Inquiry to ascertain whether the consti- ' toted authorities of that city had, by negligence, cowardice, or connivance, encouraged the disorders, which a judicious and energetic defence of the peace miakt have, in the first instance, suppressed, and thereby saved a dreadful loss of life and destruction of property. Government ought not to have waited to be asked to institute such an inquiry. The country had a tight to expect a prompt and_ire partial investigation into the conduct of tie Ma gistracy of Bristol, that if guilty of the charges publicly made against them, they should be at once, as a salutary example, derived of the public trust which they had proved themselses incompetent to execute and unworthy to retain. But this is not the first occasion, we regret to say, in which Go vernment has shown itself deficient in that moral eourage and decision which the existing circum stances of the country require. To nothing else but the temporizing policy of Ministers can w e at tribute the gentled apprehension which has gone abroad of their inability to carry, on the next attempt, an efficient measure of Reform. It is which gives cot:rid:nee to this temporizing policy the Tory party, while it damps with corresponding distrust the hopes of Reformers. Ricked by that mighty mass of opinion which no pow er i n England could long withstand, why should the peaceable success of Reform be doubted, if Ministers did not, by the timidity of their conduct, and their anxious solicitude to conciliate their an tagonists, turd to place more reliance on petty tactics and official marceuvr ing than upon that moral force of public sentiment, which only requires to be boldly and honestly led on, in a constitutional course, to overthrow and utterly demolish, without any violent shock to society, the strong-holds of oli garchical power and Parliamentary corruption ? it because the corporation of Bristol is pre-sminently Tory that a demand of inquiry into the conduct of t tie corporate authorities on tire occasion of the late riots has hitherto been evaded ? Whatever the motive may be the Tories attribute the conduct of the Government to fear, and the people will be apt ro impute to it something wor-e. The conduct of Lord Althorp has by no means the appearance of being candid or straightforward in this affair. His letter, w hich we published on Saturday, as forwarded from our correspondent at Bristol, is a specimen of that diplomatic evasiveness which is peculiarly un suitable in such an exigency. The public were in• formed the other day that Lord Melbourne had got a cold, accompanied by a hoarseness This might have prevented him giving his opinion viva time upon a public question, but could not have pre vented his writing it. Lord Airkorp, however, • states that the absence of the Secretary for the Home Department, from indisposition, prevented Ministers from coming to any decision upon the application for a Commission of Inquiry. Is there not reason to suspect that the indisposition was more of a moral than physical nature ? Let us see. The letter of Lord Althorp is dated on the Bth in steno '1 he absence of Lord Melbourne from the Cabinet Council is to be referred, we presume, either to that day or the day before. Now we find, or • looking back to the Court Circulars, as published it our peper on the 9th and Bth instant, that Viscount Melbourne was present at Cabinet Councils on the ' two preceding days; namely, on the Bth, the day on which the letter bears date, and on the 7th, the day before it was written; he was also at a Cabinet Council on the Gth, so that it is quite clear that his illness was not so severe as to prevent him from taking a part daily in the deliberations of Ministers. If he were absent from any particular meeting ea his colleagues to which Lord Althorp's letter re lates, it is clear that he was not prevented from to tending by the severity of hi. bodily indisposition. Besides, in the letter of Mr. Prothrroe, the Mem- ' ber for Bristol, which inclosed the note from Lor , Althorp, there is the following sentence :—" I re gret that it (Lord Althorp's rioter should cootair, nothing of the satisfactory inttliigence I had give you reason to anticipate, and which his Lordship did not give true reason to anticipate would have been dependent on Lord Melbourne's presence." Why, indeed, should the derision be dependent on Lord Melbourne's presence ? It was a question that concerned the character of the whole Govern ment, and the interests of the whole country. Ii the Corporation of Bristol are innocent of the charges brought against them, it is due to them to make their innocence appear by a strict and impartial investigation. If they tire- guilty, it is due to the public that their chartered privileges s!roule no longer exist. Lord Melbourne spoke of the necessity of having depositions up from Bristol betore any thing could be done. It was very kind of him, but certainly not very wise, to allow the inculpated authorities to preside over an inquiry into their own conduce. It was this weakness of the Government which made the corporate Magis trates recover their lost courage sufficiently to talk of bringing down Sir Charles Wetherell to Bristol to try the prisoners ! But w e say that no prisoners ought to be tried for the riots at Bristol until the cause of those riots shall have been ascertained.— On the trials of the prisoners no inquiry into the cause will be permitted ; but justice and public po licy require that the pot r and ignorant should not alone be punished if there be delitiquency elsewhere. Since writing the above the letter of Lord Met bourne, dated November 10, in answer to one from Mr. Baillie, has fallen under our notice. Two more days had passel since that of Lord Alt harp, anti it is quite its unsatisfactory and equivocal as the former one. The re-appearance of Viscount Me!- bourne in his wonted health at the Council Board does not appear to have quickened the decision of his colleagues' on this urgent question. Two addi tional days have been spent in making up their minds upon a question which ought not originally to have occupied two hours. Lord Melbourne cau tiously avoids any explicit declaration on the snb joct. He fences off the appl:c4tion by scying that Government will undoubtedly give its most serious and deliberate attention to the disgraceful transuc tions which have taken place at Bristol, and then adds, "I have to assure you that there will be no delay in acquainting you with the determination to which Government come on this painful subject." It won't do, we can assure Lord Melbourne, for Government to animadvert on those disgraceful transactions only by the sanguinary process of a Special Commission, without an inquiry of the na ture demanded into the condi:et of those whose im puted dereliction of duty led the misguided popu lace into error and crime, for which many of them have already atoned with their blood.—Mom. liee. Our declaration that it would be madness to think of arming without the authority of Government, was meant only with respect to arming in bands. It is well known that every Englishman is entitled to possess arms ; and our public writers do not hesitate to state, that the object of the laws which recognise this right, is to enable the people to avail themselves of their natural right of resistance, when the laws are insufficient to secure them against oppression. It is well known, for instance, that the late Ministry were making preparations for keeping down the people by forcible means : indeed the evidence of their intentions is in existence. When env set of men set at defiance t h e opin i ons an d f ee li ngs o f a whole nation, and attempt to govern by force, then, to use tire words of Mr. Fox, resistance becomes a duty. What was once contemplat e d i s st ill con templated. In an admirable article in the Scotsman of Wednesday last, I,eadcd "'National or Conserve. tive Guard," obr Northert! Contemporary shows that the Tories, instead of giving way- to the will o f the nation, count on forcing the cation to giv e way to them. " The members of die oligarchy who ere deepest in its secrets (says the Scotsman), tell very openly that they will not flinch from the ground they have taken. This is distinctly stated in the Quarterly Review just published. The article in utood's Afaiatifte, quoted in the Wethninater Reu'etr, wee net witteen its sport, as some pariiz.in: of the oligarchy, who think it div u l ges too muc h, wou ld f a i n persua de u. It points our the course which the pary means to follow. We could repeat, if we chose, the very words used by some of them ; and the lam /nage of their organs with the attempts now making to get up addresses, condemning the toto, and ohtesting the King not to create Peers, show suffi ciently that the Oligarchy, like Prince Polignac's Ministry, are planning their measures on the prin ciple oft no concession.' " We apprehend there can hardly be a doubt with regard to the intentions of the Oligarchy. The determination to reject the Bill a second time suppoe4 s also the determination of attempting to govern by coercio n . Were the people to see any display of power by the present Ministers, they might indulge in some hopes of their atmility to carry the measure of Reform. But they cannot shut their eyes to the circumstance that Mi nisters are without power. The Tories ere every where in the strong holds of the country—they are everywhere the delegates of the Royal authority, and the Government may be said to be in their leseds. The removal of Edit Howe and Str Byam Martin are too trifling to be taken into account. The conclusion at which the people have arrived is, that Ministers have not the power to do that which would enable them to be of any use to the country—that they have been re tained till it suits the Oligarchy to throw off the mask. We do not believe the Ministers possess th, means of carrying Reform, and it is of importance that the people should no longer remain under the delusion that they can carry it. He that is fore warmed is forceermed. Believing from a variety of circumstances, that the Reform Bill will be rejected a second time, what will then be the state of the country ? We agree with the Scotsman, that the object of the selfish faction of Anti-Reformers, is " to make the empire one universal scene of turbu lence and desolation. The fearful scenes just acted in Bristol are an image of what we shall by and by witness in every corner of the three kingdoms, if more effectual means are not provided in time to preserve the politic peace." In fact, the rejection of the Reform Bill, as was to have been expected, has led to a want of confidence in tke manufacturing districts, and, consequently, to the dismissal of a number of workmen. This process has been going on for some time, and has now attained to such a height as to inspire thinking men with much alarm. Now let us suppose. the Bill rejected a second time, with the existence of a number of discontented, because unemployed, workmen throughout the country : " The pool& (our contemporary justly obaerves) will feel in an instant that their hopes are baulked : they know that Eat I Grey will not propose an illusory Reform ; and they will see that none but such a Reform; will he sanctioned by the Peers. Look at the effect which the mere postponement of the Reform Bill produced at Not tingham and Derby a month ago—look at the riots occa -jotted in Dorset two weeks ago, by a single election, car ried against popular feeling—look at the awful events of last week at RI istol—and then imagine what the state of the country would he, nh, the people felt that, after all heir prayers and ull their efforts, their last hope had va nished ! Grant that the strength of the army were trebled, we ask whether it could spread itself out so as to afford adequate protection to persons and property at such a juncture? To na it is evident that nothing sio , rt of arming the householders, or a large portion of them, in every eon side' able town, could afford a reasonable guarantee for the ,ieace of the country. Nay, we say more—that if such orecautions are not taken beforehand, when the appalling evil presents itself, the exigency of the moment will compel aten to resort to some plan of the kind, which, like every rhino got up in a hurry, will he lam e and inefficient." Somethmg has been said by one of our contempo aries (the GMe)as to the means which the Ministry oossess of voting on the House of Peers, should it again prove refractory through the House of Com -lions. But, as is well shown by our contemporary (the Seotsman,) Earl Grey could not remain in of fice afier a second rejection of the Reform Bill. " If E irl Grey and his colleagues remained one mouth in office after the second rejection of the Bill, their power to st rye the country would be at an end. In the course of that time the army and the people would be in collision in a hundred places ; the sol diers acting under the order of Tory Officer:, Tory M tgistrates, Tory Sheriffs, and Tory Lord Lieute nants, would shed b 100.4 in abundance, the whole odium of t: high would fall upon the Minister:, arid f'o r ever ruin them in the affections of the people. The oiiparchs understand this perfectly ; they pray ;'or mobs and tumults, b 4 cause they see in them a v!eitain means of estranging the people from the Go vernment." A new MiMstry would instantly dissolve he refractory House of Commons ; and let us only hith of the consequences of a general election in •he present state of the country. We have a better opinion of the present Ministers than to suppose for one moment that, if they had the power, they would hesitate to allow the formation of armed associations of householders. They have not the power to con sent to a measure which would only be placing the citizens on a footing with the inhabitants of the country. " The nervous horror (observes the Scoonian) ex pressed he some wiseacres at the very idea charming the householders is to its infinitely amusing ! Did it never occur to these persons that we have thirty or forty thou s ind armed volunteers of one d<-scriptien already in the country—namely, the yeomanry ? We should be glad to know in what respect the farmers, shopkeepers, master tradesmen, and small attorneys, in rural districts, are more worthy of being trusted with lethal weapons, than the middle classes in towns, who are generally better educatd, have as great a stake in the country, and are much more exposed to suffer from tumults and breaches of the peace? We do not wonder, indeed, that country 'Squires despise our citizens, considering the pitiful plight they submit to be placed in. When symptoms of riot appear in a town, instead of the householders taking arms to defend their families and property, the poor cravens sit still, or go out as constables to be mauled and laughed at, while couriers are despatched to summon the said 'Squires with their yeomen from the neighbouring fields ; and they, as a matter of course, arrive at the scene of action some hours after the mischief is done. Why is there not an aimed urban guard as well as a rural one? The true snawer is, that the yeomanry is essentially an aristocratic force ; it was raised in Tery tiFries, and for Tory purposes ; it is officered chiefly by members of the Oligarchy, as its ranks are filled to a great extent by their retainers." l'elinisters are, of course, well aware of the injus tice of the principle which refuses to towns what is granted to Squires : but their hands are tied. How ever, let us do what we can, though we cannot do all that we wish. We are all by law entitled to arm ourselves, and we ought to avail ourselves of the privilege. We can unite, though we cannot attn ; ' and if a time should come when it is necessary both to unite and to arm, we shall not be caught unpro vided.—Morning chronicle. It is 110 " loss of time, nor hindrance of business," to dwell, though at the risk of frequent repetition, upon that which constitutes the chief subject of ap prehension for the people of England at the pee• sent hour. They fear, then, lest the success of the new Reform Bill should be endangered. We do not say that such an alarm must be of nece , sily well founded, hut merely that, every thing considered, it is by no means an unnatural alarm, and that it ought to be immediately and entirely removed. Proofs are demanded every moment of the asserted fact, that Ministers have the means of carrying, and without further disappointment, this measure, so dear to the bulk of the Enlist] nation. And ashat proofs are brought forward ? Silence,—silence as profound asdeuth. Not one word has been uttered by men in office calculated to persuade the country I that the House of Lords, which rejected the former Bill, are inclined to spare that now in the course of preparation. Not a word lens been breathed by the Tory Lords themselves to authorize any such hope. A fortnight has not elapsed since Baron Wharncliffe assured the Yeomanry Cavalry of the West Riding that so far from confessing himself in the wrong, or , lamenting his own motion by which the second reading was defeated, lie looked back upon the day on which be made that motion as the " proudest day of his life !" Is such, then, the penitence which ' the people of England have anticipated ? Is that the approximation towards Reform, which, consti tuted as the Howe of Lords was a month ago, and still eeeitinuea, we were promised as the sure instru-1 for crowning the new Bill with triumph ? It is a sound maxim of military prudence, never to re-' commence an attack upon the same enemy with no eater force than that which he has already beaten If you do, you but incur a second overthrow, and too fiequently add ruin to disgrace. The propor tion of reforming arid anti-reforming Peers admits obviously of but two modes of adjustment. Either reduce the enemy or recruit yourselves. ‘Ve have heard that the number of the refractory Piers are not, in any sensible degree, dimini , hed ; that, on the contrary, they are gathering greater obstinacy and confidence from the mischiefs already occasioned to the Administration by the la cesa of Parliament, by the bait aide of delay, and by the wicked, but in some points of view effectual, labours of those base and unprincipled renegades, who are striving Sys tematically to withdraw the working-classes horn all concert with, and reliance on, their biethren of the middle and upper. Tke desperate attempts of other miscreants to set poverty against property, and Igo e . rance against knowledge, have further served to in spire the Tory league with asurances !kit Its own stubbornness, by the aid of Court intrigues, of in stigated riots, and of " blood enough," may in the end so frighten the lovers of peace,—so shake the mea of capitid, and so disgust all men of sens e an d spirit, at the weakness and indecision of those whom they had looked up to for protectors,--as t o yield the public enemy yet one more chance of re fixing the old yoke upon the nation. It were idle to assert that infinite uneasiness has not. arisen through out society within the last ten days upon this very topic of the means possessed by Ministers for making good their engagement to the country. For some time after the late prorogation the people were sa tisfied to look on. It was just, they thought, that the Cabinet should have leisure to make its inquiries and selections, and to accomplish its creation of Peers from among the ranks of the liberal Aristo cracy. lint patience has its bounds. It is seen and felt that there is "nothing doing." It is felt universally, that Ministers ought not only to have long since arranged for an extensive creation of Peers, but ought to have grappled with the grow ing Ends of distrust and dissatisfaction, by an nouncing positively to their zealous advocates, and through various authentic channels, that such a erre tion had been resolved upon, and would beyond all question and without delay be completed. This would have spread rejoicing throughout the empire: nay, it will do se still. It will go far to convince the people that there are other means of safety for them besides the powerful, but irregular—perhaps dangerous—" Political Unions." It will add unex ampled force and reputation to the Government, by demonstrating that it possesses the unimpaired esteem of that estate of the realm on which depends the distribution of honours. It will, besides, and which is a consideration of vast importance, intro duce a liberal counterpoise into the house of Peers, for the Tory creations and promotions of the les: hell century : thus, after Reform shall have been carried, facilirating for a Whig Minister the march of his Government in matters affecting the general policy of the empire; er reinforcing the Peerage by such materials of a patriotic and independent oppo sition as may establish a somewhat more salutary cuntroul Over the acts of Tories, should they re turn to (inky, than has existed through the succes sive Administrations of Pitt, Sidmouth, Portland, Perceval, and Liverpool. On one point we agree with the boroughmonger Journals—" things cannot remain much longer as they are." They begin to be disjointed ; and we hive the less scruple in say• iug so, because at a ward Lord Grey can set them i ig h t.— Them In itllusion to the aiticle which appeared in this Journal on Saturday, respecting the establishment of " a Peace-maintenance Sucie y," and in answer also to the question of a correspondent, who a-1;s whether it is our wish that armed associations, for the preservation of the peace, should be established throughout the kingdom, we beg to say, once (of all, that any other armed associations than those of which the machinery is already prepared, have never been contemplated by us, and that their establish ment would be as offensive and insulting rt , !he Government, as it would, in all probability, be laid hold of by its Anti-Reform opponents to bring it into discredit. According to the existing law of the land, every one ma) have arms for his defence, suitable to his condi tion ; and, according to the same law, the country is divided into parishes and other nominal divisions, the Magistrates of which are empowered, in case of need,, to swear in, as special constables, for the pre servation of the peace, as many of the inhabitant as they may deem necessary for the purpose : All that is required to be done, therefore, and, indeed, we are confident all that is necessary to be done, is imply to organize this parochial force in such a manner that it may be brought to act with the greatest possible efficacy on the shortest possible notice ; and without an organization, or arrange menr, such as that pointed out by the author of the pamphlet which we noticed on Saturday, this cannot be done. The arrangement, however, is so simple, that no difficulty would be encountered, so.ther in making it, or rendering it effective ; %elide the amount of the constitutional force which would be gained, and without expense, itt behalf of the preser vation of peace, and against all tumult, riot, or me nace of any description, would be so considerable, that the most timorous would have ample cause to repose confidence in its piotection of their persons and property. With respect to armed political as sociations, the most base use of the mere mention of them, by some of our contemporaries, has been at tempted tempted to be made of them by the Atiti•Reforers, We must have none of them, least the Kng and his Ministers should be embarrassed.—Morning A The Ministers must begin, we imagine, by this time to discover that they have put themselves into the power of task-masters so severe, capricious, and inconsistent, that the popularity they acquired by degrading the character, abdicating the powers, and betraying the trusts of Government, cannot be of a very durablenature. Already we find the whole lower orders of the people, the physical force of the com munity—with the vengeance of which the Ministers of the King presumed, a month ago, to threaten the House of Peers, it it should dare to reject the revolu tion that those nniaters had contrived fur their own party purposes—so fully recovered from the delusion in which this great body of our fellow-subjects were then suppose to be held, that the menace, which was at tht.t time wicked, if not treasonable, would now be merely ridiculous. In the great manufacturing towns and districts the people only meet to express their hatred and contempt of " the Bill," arid of the Ministry who attempted to palm it upon the country as a measure of Reform. The people see that it was such a Reform as could only have bad the effect of es.ablishing Whig dominion in Parliament; and the dominion, still more vexatious, oppressive, and re volting than any Parliamentary authority can pos sibly be, of little knots of base, low-born, purse proud Oligarchs in every neighbourhood. This they see, and they declare accordingly, with one united and irresistible voice, theiropinion that the Bill would have produced no benefit to the labouring classes of society, and that it never was intended to produce any. The same feeling prevails also in the metropolis to such an extent, that the class of persons who still approve of the Ministerial measure of petty local tyranny, and approve of it because they were them selves to have been the tyrants, instead of calling meetings, as men conscious of a popular object and cause have always done, are compelled to form them selves into clubs, and to hide themselves in holes and corners. Political Union., whether armed or unarmed, whether they call themselves temporary or permanent, so long as they skulk from the view of the people, and elude by fraud the resolutions of public meetings, are not, it is evident, an element of power, but the refuge and disguise of wounded va nity and conscious insignificance. We desire 00 better prof than is afforded by the conduct of the National Political Union, of which Sir Francis Burdett is at the head, but of which, h e s ays, he nil! only remain the head so long as such R,efortners as Mr. Wakley and Mr. Hunt can' be kept out of bit way—that the cause of the Bill and the Ministry is a ruined cause. The only town in England in which any but the merest drivellers affect to retain their attachment to the Bill or the Ministry is Birmingham, where a Political Union, comprehunding 1t formers of all kinds, classes, and degrees, has been established long enough to acquire those habits of disciplined hypocrisy which enable men whose objects are es sentially different to act in union up to a certain point. And this Birmingham Union, the single association of the least value or importance that pretends to be on the side of nnistcrs, is about to forfeit its pledge, to become an of of ridict le to the world, and to fall to pieces amidst internal dis sension and the general laughter of mankind ; or to embarrass the Government, to act in opposition to the earnest end pathetic admonitions of the Govern ment Press, to force upon the unfortunate Ministers whom it pteteods to support the unpleasant task of putting its leading members upon them trial for high treason; to convert itself, in short, into an association whose very existence shell he in defiance of the law. But the task-masters of the Administration, that portion of the Press whose assistance Ministers have courted in order no delude the people, chew them -elves in the present deplorable condition of their slaves in ollice to be more secure and inexorable than their piedecessors of old who tormented and op ptessed the house of Israel. The Ministers were to curry the Bill, but the Ministerial Press was to make it popular. If they could have passed a po pular Bill, are they therefore to be pronounced equally able to pass an unpopular one ? Is not this to demand bricks without straw 9 Awl when the Ministerial Press insists, in &fiance o f facts o f d a ily occurrence, and of the most unequivocal characeer, that the RH is still popular, what is this but to add bitter mockery to Egyptian oppression 9 We pity even Lord Grey when we read in it Paper favoured so much and so lately by the Administratien as the Times, and still perhaps patronized by some of its Members, such passages as this : " If Lord Grey resigns, rc infeeta—the Crown being with him, and the nation wi h him, and justice, and wis dom, and rstetity, for his allies—we need not tell his Lordship, b;r he knows it, that he will sink, not into ob scurity, let him not lay that unction to his soul—not into commiseration, great criminals are never pitied—not into comparative littleness—not into transient disgrace. There never was sorb a fall since that of Adam as would be the downfal of the Noble Earl." The Times, it is plain enough, begins to think it full time to desert Lord Grey, and this is a pretty sure prognostic of his early fall. But full when he may, the simile of the Times will be as inapplicable As it is profane. The Noble Earl, or we are greatly deceived, w•.ith all his attachment to officP, has found , t of late any thing rather than a Paradise.—Morn ing Poat. It is now more than suspected, and the prolonged silence of Ministers on the subject tends to strengthen the suspicion, that the hitch has taken place in the progress of the Reform Bill, which it will require all the energy of the people to remove. That this eras arisen front the delay created by the proroga tion, there can be no question ; because it is clear hat, at the time the Lords threw out the Bill, no other impediment existed to its passing, than what manifested itself in their House. Such is not the ease now. The delay caused by the prorogation has afforded tnne for the enemies of Reform to rally and collect their forces. These, in many instances, possess the ad:eve-ages of the ltsyal ear, and are ever pouring into it poisonous insinuations as to the consequences of Reform. In a speech made by Mr. Attwood, to the Birmingham Union, on Mon day last, that gentleman thus alludes to the new impediments which have lately risen up against the Bill :—" He did not hesitate to say that the Bill was in danger. It had been rejected by the House of Lords, end he feared it would be rejected again. But there were other circumstances which he could not but consul, r. It was possible—he did not think it was probable, but it was possible —that our good arid pa , rionc King tray be induced, by the wiles of those who surround him, to withdraw his support from the Bill. It was poseible that the machinations of our powerful enemies may detest the Ministers, and compel them to resign." With respect to the latter part of Mi . . Attwood's ap prehensions, we must be allowed to say, that, if the Ministers again (allow themselves to he defeated — they will merit their being compelled to resign. They have the ball a! their foot ; and if they are too dastardly to move it--they should make way for those who are less timid or less scrupu lous. They have the influential part of the country, to a roan, in their favour—they possess the con fidenee of their Sovereign ; why, then, do they he sitate at adopting the only means left to restore the nation to a state of tranquillity—viz , the creation of a sufficient number of Peers to get the 13ill through the Lords. We will make an improbable supposi tion :—that the King has signified his unwillingness to adopt this measure. Suppose that h e h as , an d suppose that, with the pertinacity of more than one of his family, he appears inclined to adhere to that resolution—yet there is a plain path before Lord Grey. He should boldly, though respectfully, place his resignation infer/a-position with the non-creation of Peers. lit should at once tell his Royal Master that the people will have Reform ; and that he is un dile to carry on the Government, unless the boon they iegaire is granted them. This would bring matters to a crisis; and any crisis would be pre ferable to the state of turbulence, doubt, and anxiety in which the country is now involved. The crisis could not, however, last long. The King's sound and plain sense would SOOTI come into play, and the refractory Peers be taught the futility of further re sistance. When almost every Bishop's Palace in the kingdom is obliged to be defended by the mili tary—when the Tory nobility are garrisoning their houses, and raising lines of defences in their parks —eviler' in opposition to these, the middle classes are providing themselves with arms and preparing themselves for a strenuous resistance,* it requires but little of the gift of prophecy to foretell that a collision must soon occur, unless a speedy settle ment of the important question of Reform takes plac e . Not a moment should be lost ; for the peace of the kingdom may be said to hang on a single thread --Newe. lEsop tell; us that, once on a time, a fox wheedled a crow out of a piece of cheese ; but we have never heard that any arts of persuasion or cajolery redeemed any thing from the jaws of the fox. It is clear that we have not had a crow to do with. For months every tongue was employed in assuring it how much it was respected and valued, what a sweet pretty creature it was, and ever would be reputed to be, if it would only open its mouth and drop the morsel to which it had no right. It turned its tail, how ever, most uncivilly upon all solicitations, and showed itself a sort of animal that thriught a good bit in the mouth better than any quantity of fair wcrds in the ear. Our Ministers have obviously great reliance on their powers of persuasion. Of Lord Ahhorp it may be said, as Mrs. Hardcastle remarked of Tony Lumpkin," He would wile the bird from the tree;" but ah ! not the fox from the goose. If he has not the blandishment of citatory, he has the oratory of blandishment: but beasts of prey have no ear for civilities. We fear, we greatly fear, that wolves ‘ will never answer to the call of " Dilly, dilly, dilly, co me and be killed," however sweet may be die a ccent, or urgent the propriety. NA:hen childr en commit errors, , ti tt m ie or p e ar s e e r r i l t s ' e s consolationconsolation' get ' older." " They havewill This seems to have been the calculation with re spect to the Peers. Though already the wickedest old body in the world, it is supposed " they will know better" in three or four months. When the sight of a venerable Bencher of the Temple We understand that Ministers are so alarmed at the progress of the arming system among the Unions, that they have come to the resolution to commence legal measures to prevent its pro ceeding. Such a step will bring them into direct collision with the people; a consummation the Tories have long devoutly wished. Ministers would, however, do far better to disarm the Unions, by immediately setting on foot measures to pass the Re form Bill, than to attempt doing it by force. Besides, has not every Englishman as much right to arm himself, and to fortify his house, as the Duke of Newcastle, Lords Plymouth, Middle ton, Sc. Ste, failed, at the age of ninety, notwithstanding all the resources of art, he tranquilly remerked, that he believed he must leave it to time. We fear that time will not do more for the sight of the Peers than it did for our aged friend. They have had all en couragement in their obstinacy. Before they proved mal-content, they were as4ailed with II it tery on the one hand, and menaces of destruction and ez cation on the other. They have proceeded to the extremity ; (hey have insulted and defied the na tion,denied its rights, and spurned its claims, and the), have experienced none of the menaced consequences. The worst that is to happen to them is to be !tied again. Can we wonder should they begin to be of opinion that threatened men live long. Great escapes give cowards confid.eice. The cry of wolf has proved a false alarm, and the proverbial false security will follow on it ; all warning will now be laughed at till the terrible reality appear;. Our contemporaries are beginning to have their doubts, whether Ministers can catch Peers by sating their tails. There is but one example in point of their practice, and the success of it is uncertain—it is that of a Frenelimae, who advertised a powder for idl ing fleas. A gentleman, troubled with a large ma jority of these tormenters, having in vain spread the bait, reproached the quack for his deception. The man coolly asked how the specific had been applied ? and having heard, answered, " 0 Sal'', but dat is quite wrong—first you catch de leetal flea, den you take him and hold him by de nape of his neck till be gape ; den you put a grain of tie powder down his troate—and den you let him ruts, and perhaps he Trite you no more." Ministers have had the flea by the nape of the neck, gaping, aye, and with the whole country open-mouthed too, and they pet a grain of love-powder down the throat, and let it run, and perhaps it will bite them no more. But per haps it will. The Cironicle (which, from the first, fairly confessed that it could riot see its way in the Ministeriai design of conversion) observes ; We have always been slow tobelieve the reports of c•oa versions of Bishops and Peers, knowimz the strong aver sion that these men must have to all measures founded on equal-handed justice—and more especially to that crown ing measure, a reform of the representation. All coaxing --all attempts at persuasion must he thrown away in such a case. The request to Barna' dine to come down to be hanged, was riot more unpalttable th in the borough mongers and Bishops (one and the same), must he the sp pile ition to consent to a rea'ly efficient Bill of Reform. We know that it is the interest of these men to affect a ' disposition towards conversion, because it throws their opponents off their guard, and what they want is delay. It is only in hell that the great poet excludes the entrance of Hope. The Anti-Reformers feed themselves' a iris hopes of re-actions—hopes of deaths—hopes of riots and insurrections, which might inspire alarm into men possessed of property. We, ourselves, are not without alarm, on account of the distress caused by the stagnation of trade in many parts of the country. In the manufac turing districts, there are at present numbers of men Out of work, and suffering severely; arch till the Reform Bi:l is cerried, no improvement is to be hoped for. The Anti- Reformers hope to profit by the cal unities of which they are the authors, by e rej-ction of the Re'orm Bill. it c Times, we observe, shares our suspicions with regard to the alleged conversion of the Anti-Reformers. That the Peers have not (says our contemporary) use•ully re considered their opinions on the Reform Bill, so as to en sure a reception for that measure more palatable to the nation than the last, has within these few days became matter of widely-diffused suspicion. No proof. indeed, of the contrary has yet been adduce!, r any facts which carry much weight or authority on the face of them. If, therefore, Ministers once already deceived and dis pointed—once already instrumental, no doubt innocently, in the heavy d,ssppointment of the nation—if tl•ey have rot more materials for confidence in the self.reforne.tion of the House of Lords than have yet reached the public eye, a nd still do riot lend themselves with instant vigour to it re-' adjustment' of the Peet s, the concluding passage of the following extract may he found to express a feeling I y no torsos confined to the author, who begins with some caustic, though grave, reflections on the ashops, and co :he Scotch and Irish Peers.' ( Here our contemporary in troduces a long quotation front a pamphlet, in the shape of a letter to Earl Grey. on the adjustment of the House of Peers.")—Examiner. THE ITALIAN BOY. On Saturday Mr. Corder, vestry clerk of St Patirs, Gwent-garden, who has been actively en gaged in obtaining. evidence against the gang of " Resurrectionists, " who stand charged with " Bu. k ing" the Italian boy, came before GEORGE ROW LAND MiNstiun, Esq., at Bow -street, and stated that the murder of the boy had been taken into consideration by the Government, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department had informed him (Mr. Corder) that he (the Secretary of Stat,) was pleased with the exertions which had beet! used to bring the murderers to justice, and hi; M.je,ty's Government had determined to offer 200/. reward, and a free pardon, to any person who would bring the parties concerned in the murder (except those who actually did the deed) to justice. Mr. MissuuLt. directed the clerk of the office to advertise the reward in the newspapers. Thomas, the superintendent of police, sa . d that he expected to have some additional evidence against the accused in the course of the day. A Jew, named Divis, residing in Field-lane, Hol born, who said he was a salesman and dealer in clothes, entered the office, and stated to the Mri gis!rate, that on Friday week, about half-past two o'clock in the day, four men entered his shop, arid two of them purchased articles of hirn. One of them bought a pair of small-clothes, arid another a smock-frock, worked in front. The man who pity chased the pair of small-clothes left a pair behind him in exchange, on which were marks of blood. Mr. Thomas here observed, that one of the ac cused wore a smock-frock like the one described by the above witness. Mr. Missum, directed Davis and the police officers to go to Cleikenwell prison, and see if he (D iris) could identify either of the prisoners its the persona who had purchased apparel at his shop so recently after the supposed murder.' Davis proceeded to the gaol, and there recognistd May arid Bishop as two of the four persons who came to his shop and made the purchases. lie could not speak to the other two prisoners. At eight o'clock on Saturday night Mr. Girder and Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of Police, ap peered before Mr. Minshuli, and a long consultation took place in a private room before they appeared in the public office. Mr. MINSIIULL observed to Mr. Thomas that he thought they were now in the " thickest" pert of the horrid affair. Mr. Thomas observed that the facts certainly thickened upon them, end he hoped the guilty would soon be brought to justice. lie added that he had been at the dentist's at whose shop the prisoner May had sold the teeth of the boy for 12s. 6d., and he produced the same in a box, which he handed to the Magistrate. Mr. MINSHULL said that the inquiry could not be gone into further at that moment, and the evidence which had been obtained must be brought before him on Friday next, on the examinwion of the parties concerned. Some other facts tran,pired, but it was wished they should not obtain publicity, lest they might operate to thwart the ewis of justice. ALICE PAULET.—This long-expected novel is now before the world. The rapid success of the author's former work " Sydenham," has tempted him to introduce his somewhat mischievous hero in the character of a mar ried man, that he might be enabled, according to Lord 13vRoN's phrase, to gain " admittance into funnies." We know not, however, whether he will nut "flutter ame_ dove-cotes" too roughly. A WORKING PARSON.—The Rev. Mr. MATTISON, formerly Curate of Patterdale, buried hiv mothtr, married and buried his father, christened his wife, and published his own banns of marriage in the church, and he christened aril married all his four children, a son and three daughters. lie died January 31, 1766, at the ate of 96, sixty years of which he had been curate of Patterdale. Till the last few years of his life his stipend did not exceed twelve pounds, and never reached twenty pounds per annum ; yet such was his industry and do mestic economy, that on this small pittance be contrived to iivt comfortably, and to nave 1,0001.-- Guide to the Lakes. THE WINE TRADE. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) We have been politely favoured with a coP% the following cornrnun;cation from the Treaitirl anwer to no ipplication relative to the stock on h on the 20,h of .ftik• : " Treasury Chambers, London, Nov. 5, 183 r: " Sin,—The Honourable the Commissioners °' \laje.ty's Treasury having had und,r theirconsiderati?, memorial of the Conmittee of merchant• engage d ! ' wine an;! trade, praying an er , ension of (her appointed for the payment of the additional duties on s,veral stn; s of wine, imposed by the Act of th e Session, I MI commanded by their Lordships to a you, for the information of the Committee, th at hive antirorisA the Board of Excise to receive the CORNWA LI • MA RKETS. 'Fitcao—Wheat (average) 2.45. OW—Barley, W. , . np. ST AUSTEI.I,—.Wheat, —B. to t° O. to Bs. Od. c A Bonulti—Wheat (average) :225. Od.—Barley, Is. fint.s . roN—Whelt, xis. W.—Parley, 12s yd. PENZANCE—Wheat, 225. to 24s.—Barley, to Ss. , d.—Beef and Mutton, Bd. to Od.—ForA , - Butter, it.i. LiskEtao—..Wiseat, —a. 00. to :I'o's g —Barley, -i• C to Rs. Od. and r M C , t L o c t m ) \t o d.—Veal, I ,AUNCE3TON—W heat (average) :2.71. Gl—Barley,. 6.l.—Beef, .7,l—Mutton, sd. t.l e s a . i. to 4d 2 ._ 4s. can ßa h r . le m y,. s. o:1;61 MINING IN FELLIGENCE. Quantity of Copper Ore gold at Redruth last ThurdaY Quantity of fine C0pper.—......,.... Average Produce Amount of Sale, 17,5301.3 x. ttd.—Average Standard. 31 ,4 1. Sir TH LAWRENCE,OMAS AWRENCE, .s we ll t ie was an accomplished gentleman as well as f of of painter. Kings, Princes, and Nobles, sat to hi w portraits and honoured him with their oth, rs, of whom we find an infinite variety ° and particulars of great interest in the recenaror Life of tiie late President, are the following IV., the Duke of YORK, Duke of CLARENCE , t 0 ( 1 ror of RUSSIA, the King of PitussiA, the Duk e 9 1 LINGTON, Duchess of RICHMOND, Burl ABERDEEN, Lord CAsTLIP.EAGII, CANNING, , i ff VILLE, quis of ANGLESEA, Marchi one ss of , Lady LF.ICESTED., L,(iy EMILY CowriEst, Dok e Lawn, Countess of DERBY, Duchess Dowager 0 6 s , SHIRE, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Marquis of F- 11 . , 51 0 5t ,' AstHEßsr, Lady E. L. G OWER , Lady La-Su r i jio WALTER SCOTT, Alarchioness of SALISBUIL I, KER, Airs. HOPE, LC. THE LATE FIRE IN CONV- , .. ° 1 ,11'. 1 one o'clock on Saturd .y Mr. STIRLING, and 11 0 ,0 ° spectable Jury, assembled in the Committee -r oe Sepulehle's workhouse, in Sharpe's-alley' , orl touching the deaths of 'War. Ilourfocx, wife, WILLIAM and SAMUEL, their sons, R 0 135 5 0, 11 and 3IICHA EL BONEs, whose skeletons were f t :o the ruins of the houses in Cow-cross-street , , The remains were confined in tire shells, ons c oed taining those of tie suns. About tweet,' Wl A tn a ti ce e xamined, but no sa ti s f actory proo f s w e re a`' e lf he fire orieina'ed. F rom th e ev id ence of a vi it l, e it WILLIAMS, who greatly exerted himself to sa le ffef er t lodgers, it appeared that the unfortunate au . es l° th- flames ascending the staircase so fast that re tl i ie ‘f impossible. Mrs. fIoLIIIOCIC jumped out o f t into the yard, and was killed upon the s pot. y yr poor suff e r ers were o b serve d runn i ng a bout tb e o pt in K most piteously, without the prospect Of el oole. length they sought refuge in the vault of the t o e' even there the flames pursued and burnt then' sfi An orphan girl is lef: to bewail her Pl" ° :ci' ll brothers. Th e J ur y re t urne d a v e rdict of "' c burnt to death." IRTHS. On the 13th inst. Mrs. l3 K Morton, o f Cra ,erfr''' daughter. 0 4 ' At Pentonvil:e, the lady of George PaN" ani of a son i' MARIED. J et t On the 12th inst. T. S. Liter, R Esq , son of the, of Lincoln'.-inn-fields, to Anne, daughter of V . " o il of Holloway. I - A ' te r' On the loth inst. at Brighton, J. E Piercy , s al) ton, W a rwickshire, to Sarah Elizabeth, eldest d` ,$, Chamberlain, of Brighton. ~ Cll' i c :t c ., On the 'lit!) ult. by special licence, at l'4leyle3!., ,1c 1 ," t Eurdecr, in the county of Louth, Ireland, SoP hi qleV ter of Jerome Count de Sails, of ti o k e by-hall, ty o. EON., of Lesranny, of Charle•ton, in the said CO r 4,0 DIED. u a l l/ On the 10th Inst. Jennett Rutherford, the Y ° e t, - of the late Mr. G. Dowling, of Great Alie- , "` $1 ( fields. 1 ) t e On the Bth Inst. at Henb u r v , GloucesterAiir r, Truman, Rector of Christon, 'Somerset. PAINTED AND PDDLIANED BY MUR.DO SVN OTPICE, U 2, S,'ILAVD, Lcer- Colc er kevn, uara Pral !Trner t. —.vest tz whole of Th e f -_,___ ~110, 4, 43, bft t . O "e° OM 714 44 ett, 1+ Ken, at E 4 e„ ot 4 A t 4 1 ,404 ., k 14 Nett One_limit( timid duties by three equal instalments. at the % hm reafter mentioned, in cases where the parties ' e : teed frost the second 1101 ' commodation instalment on ne' the 30 h of Nomv first instalent ember°ls' ' a i Per c en '."----._ AS( and the third instalmnynt on the 30th Deceit - Orr n e% L . , . 1 -- -----__ ant, &.. (Signed) " SPRING KI TE ' A gt.l %, '•G. Barnes, .1:',1 , 6:2, Lincoln's Inn-fields." 25 "'••••, •-•s " - ---..... 34 .........ss .... ,40 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. .------------ DURING LAST WEEK. ............ ;;11 :NA _ NVlleat. Barley. oats. ..f.,...1 14 Y, or ...... —....... a t 4 t I'er Quart?r. s. to s. .s.to s. s. to A. .36 itto t , Perin Cialisle----, 56 - :31 - '24 -" ~.,.. . 00 11 s. Hex ham .............-- 39 65 32 38 21 3 1 ' 5 ,5 Vo‘,. Morpeth --.--- 46 58 34 36 10 2 3 .., , p„ .A. ['smith ------.. - 55 , - 34 - 24 -_„„ l a , ' l "Sors Slietlield ------.42 - 2 3 - 4 g „ . _ ! g.qts, ~ Winchester —. 44 66 ' :32 39 23 3 0 „d. 7litti&,' -'''' Per Bushel. : 5. , 1. s, d. s. d. e. d. s. d. I. d,', '6O p.' tr ny . Carmarthen -„-.. 6 0 6 9 3 6 4 0 1 6 '2 v 511 I ! 1 7-41),-i A ' Coventry ---.1 74) 9 0 4 8 541 3 6 4 n 5 9 ',.._ rte o '''- Newcastle (Staff.) ,8 9 9 0 6 3 69, 3 6 4 0 3 t3 110T1tr sire Northallerton -.... 17 0 9 3 3 6 461 3 3 4 0 :7 6 Age 44 ', a st one ___ 9 n 9 8 (3 5 69i 3 6 4 v 00 , Swansea -.„---... 6 8 7 0 4 0 49! 9 3 '2 6 .5 ' 41),„ Warwick ---....... 9 0 10 0 4 6 501 2 2 '2 t 5 ' ,---- . .tan e , it 1 1 1 ; t u r r n h ia a 're m dr' l l'; . t) .--.. 11e1.. " -. I 4 : 4 4 o 'l 1 1 6 7 6 1i 9 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 1 1 5 5 8 3 68 36111 , ° 4 1' 0 0° 1 7, 111114 :- ' , I)"'"I- Richmond . 14 1 017(19610 0 1 5 0 8 (4 1," 0 V);1-, ` l n t Stockton ..................... 114 3 160 06 1001 50 722 „.. ;,/ ..41 l'o h T) WAKF.FIEI.I) CORN MARKET.-Nov. 11,,',4 ti T HI There is a very short supply of all Grain fresh up '; I O' l it l tite 1 morning; good dry New Wheat has been in fair den 13 , 1 : 1 5 0 1 ,4 day's prices, but tit,,le and middling samples of Old V" 06 , , ,0 very heavy sale. There is more inquiry for good 1t, e , 4 0 0 7 N I Thi ()Id and New, and they are rather dearer. Other kinds le' f of tt- are unaltered in price. Bit 11 .c et t r* • . Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sutillflk...46s. 565. to Mi • r,4 C l eo Pelt Lin. and C.am. ...... ...465. 545. to ("XL ~ el 1, - ', wi t h Yorkshire 48s. 575. to 5 0 '. ''o °: l , ‘ 41 113 Whit , 5 , to (15- 4 ( )thi. e I d( ......s. Geis. nre A 1,1 ----- Foreign, Red -s. 455. to 53 5 . ane A , T 'ad. White s. s. to -. 4 . ' 4 'oel - 1,,,1111), T , Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk '33s. to 3-0 , . " oe' '.( ti . ' Lincolnshire 'lBs. to 4 0 1 • 4 r°' ( i AIN Yorkshire Wold . ' ...... 1 ° Foreign -s. to -.• ti ory t Beans, Small Tick 395. to 40g. 'int!,. o Oats, Potato 2 41 to (20. f ine . r ., lii Pallid ..-, 'to 0.55. C v , - , tl s —s. ....i. - 6 01 ,:,., at u , Friezland :Old Small ..S. 24)s to 2 3, - r T i 'l -, 1.1t ' It Mealing lld. to 12V. P±,, 4 I'o „ 'l' Shelling 3ss. to 36a. W.V . :i f V: ' 11l 3 , 1 s to 41e. 6 6 : e l' '4ligh 4 Malt 3Bs. 445. tine 475.1, - f4' Rapeseed 7 ----- ____ SCOTCH MARKETS. /I h Add •------- - -liii- yt k t"'td --- - I Wheat. Barley I Oats. I Bea.ns- /1 y ''e A, t —...—....!.....-/ 53 L k , 4 .00 d Al , erdeen 48 ( , 0 27 21 2. 24 - 1 9 11 ' ~4 14,1 - wick-- ai 44 '2l 25 15 '''' 30 ~,S. ' , , / k.ll . „ - ‘ 1 4 " 11. 1 Coldstream * 40 43 20 24 In 19 50 IA , / "'4041 Cupar -- 44 (15 33 3, 25 26 3 - 3 ~,,,'"' --."' ' Dundee-- 43 Uti SI '35 :11 31 34 .7,, •''' ' I'L Elgin --.-_. 50 56 32 3s 19 21 19 :•tt 45 1 e itt I nyerness— Ino 35 30 39. 120 22 31 ;)".!, /1 , Kelso .. 1 35 44 21 '25 16 19 2!) 3 f, 451, •.% , liirkaltly--.1 40 15 '27 39 25 3 , 2 45 4 ; 4 1 0 4 b. An --- Perth 152 64 21 27 2') 23 22 ''' l/.11) V,- The site of the measure varies throughout th eo,1 11 z EDIN111111(111 (70 s 11N MA111(171' -A v.g• 1 0 - -- , l b, I AN We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to-d 3 Y' O 4. p,., -- ' ,l, 1 in general heavy. New 'Wheat down 2s. on the tort 01, 1 1 . -Ft Ti on the average Barley 437 quarters sold, same tolt„,„sto c `ef On 1 up on the average. I fats down : , (1. m-n the top, and toi,s . i rag.. Pease and Beans up Is. on the top, and 2d. on t in/ ill' lw a; , Barley. Oats, reme; 4 0y „„ f F INE First 7os 0(1 39s 0,1 0.6 s Od 40' 0 .; 7,,, Second 6's od ;In s 0,1 24. (XI 38- , o ', $:" a ! nail Third elticlCs OF PROVISIONS. &et 0. 1 . t 'l .AI " Pat It y tt_ ' ll 4 Beef, per lb. .... Os. 3d. to 0.4.7 d. Fresh Butter,lb. oo .,, ~ t 0,,. 1 Minton -- 0 3 0 6 Salt Ditto—...... 0 I. l ' ,' ti k .,:ikes, Veal., . .. 0 6 0 8 Ditto, per cis t. 94 ' ', do ''''' to , Fork_---- 0 4 0 6 1.::;g. Leonh, per. qr. 1 0 3Si OatStrawN..)ll 0 1, ~ t Fallow, Cwt. -33 0 37 6 Wheat Ditto,...) 0,,,., 1 1 6 ,1 „, , per doz. 1 9 I . ' . 1 , 4 44. 4 - Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditto ... 8 0 I, , Ite it 4 fl. r " NI rY f EDlNittinGli MEAL MARKET.-N0r.,,,t, , t , of wh Potatoes, 1711 b . 0 4 0 0 Hay, per 5t....... 1 1 ,...,1 ° . l et: 14 met with a very dull sale, at a reduction of 2.5. on thc,,,,r it , ual 2d. on time stone. Bam ley and Peasemeal at last week's ( w o k fo r eiosel y re,- Sack of 28011). imp Per Stone 01 14 10 * /0 I-I, "Itmti,,, We had a large gull:: o l f 7 oa o tna t e , a ir l b a t t o tli m s m t i . . - a my l. 's . . rn ... 5 .. 1 .0 e); . 1 r :1i : ~ First Oatmeal Second ditto ll5 0 Second ditto ........... 0 9 14 . i tlarleylneal llO 01 Barleymeal... ............ C,' '' Tv i Peasemeal Pot Barley-No. 1, per cwt. 125.-2 d, 15 5 .-3 d ... e otts , - ,I pl g o,' titi . tr ot GLASGOW CORN MA RKET.-Nov• -' rP ! .. Nt l io A fair business has been done in 'Wheats at forme,ro. 6 •,- - .ti tt , e some large lots of stale Dantzic has been sold at ,*, - ,0 , c hgt . tlf Barley is in demand at rather higher prices. 03.- 1 6 , itie 11 t o sale, and a shade lower. Beans and Pease as last Wee; ck,l +oti r „ Wheat, per 2,401 b. s. mi. s.d.l Oats, per Will). , 7 or, to t „ . `tit British, old 2lO to 30 01 Irish ................... ..,„,' 6 , Ivi ) ,'utiryi,, new 26 0 28 0 British .............••• , : h ' l 4 ...:: Canada, free aci 0 2 9 11 Beans, ter `.) 301 b' 1 96 i 'tie, „% 1 Irish Barley, per :3-.lllb. Scottish ........ .....• 11 0 ,. ! Oit English -0 - - C Pease, Scottish ... l u, , Scottish 2B 0 1 2;1 6 Oatmeal, per 14 01 b. 47 0 • . tft Irish - 216 0 Flour, perillb.... 1 4d ,_ 1 SYL 70, ( 22