The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-05 00:00:00

1 straints should take advantage of their removal to realize their views of personal profit and na tional advantage. Within the course of the late session, a statute has passed to throw open the trade of China, and to transfer to the general merchant all the remaining portion of that com merce which, for more than two centuries, has been retained in the sovereign hands of the East I India Company. Sanguine politicians may antici pate an immense increase of trade from this great commercial revolution— and even the most moderate may look for some improvement; hut whether - these expectations be realized or not, it cannot be doubted that there will be an extensive transfer of interests from one set of persons to another, and that this transfer, (luring the period of its progress, must occasion an additional activity, akin to that arising from an augmenta-1 tion of business. Railroads were among the number of schemes projected and abandoned in the bubble years of 1824 and 1825. They had partially succeeded before, and have succeeded better since, that time—but the great fame and the enormous profits of the railway established between i\lanchester and Liverpool have thrown a peculiar charm or lustre at present round that mode of investing capital and improving com munication. To increase its popularity it has received the scientific approbation cf foreigners, who came to visit our improvements, and returned to imitate our example, and particularly of our French and Belgicneighbours,who either propose to prolong the corresponding lines of some of our roads to their capital ; or to facilitate our trade through their territory by new lines of their own. We allude to a projected railroad between Paris and Dieppe, or some other French port in the Channel, to correspond with one from London to the English coast, and to an immense undertaking of this kind in Belgium, which is to connect the port of Antwerp with the banks of the Meuse and the west of Germany—a plan of which now lies before us, along with an estimate of the expense of its construction, and the profits of its con veyance. Is it surprising, then, that from such homage to the acknowledged utility, and such belief in the extravagant profits, of railroads, we should see so many projects on foot for their formation ? We frankly own that we think the market overstocked with such proposals, and that the formation of railroads on many of the projected lines would occasion a mere waste of capital. The success of that between Man chester and Liverpool does not prove that they would succeed everywhere else. In cases where good roads or convenient canals already exist— where great expedition is not required, or where neither an extensive traffic is to be carried on. nor crowds of passengers to be conveyed, it would evidently be a losing concern to alter existing arrangements. If individuals or com panies could proceed in such schemes without asking the authority of the Legislature, they might throw away their money as they chose, and the public, which could not remonstrate, would only be a loser by the failure of an unproductive speculation ; but as they have to petition for leave to drive through the fields or grounds of their neighbours, it would become Parliament in all casss rigidly to inquire, before it grants such leave, whether the present means of communication are not nearly satisfactory in case of draught and in rapidity, and if they are, to reject the petition. By cutting up a conve nient road, or rendering useless a frequented canal, already formed, it is plain that a railroad would not be an unequivocal gain to the coun try, though it may attract employment to pay the proprietors. Its whole advantage would be measured, not by its absolute returns, but by its returns after deducting the cost of the communication which it displaced or made unnecessary. We shall return to this subject, and endeavour to distinguish between the schemes now afloat and those which disgraced the years of 1824 and 1825, begging again to repeat that we shall only be apprehensive of the former if they should turn out to be connected, like the latter, with an " action on the currency." We must soon, in terms of the Bank Charter Act, have an official publication of the Bank accounts in the Gazette, from which we shall learn much as to this fact.—Times. The alterations of tempest and calm which characterise the social condition of Ireland, and constitute the immediate impediments to its improvement, have been proved by long and invariable experience to depend mainly upon causes which nothing but a wise, firm, and vigorous Government can reasonably be expected to extinguish or enfeeble. It has generally happened that the periods of popular commotion and excitement in the Sister Kingdom have been those in which the Government of Great Britain has manifested the greatest anxiety to establish a reputation for liberality and indulgence ; while, on the other hand, the intervals of calm, during which the prosperity of the country anti the general welfare of the people have been enabled to make some slight advance, have coincided almost uniformly and exactly with the displays, reluctant and transitory as they have been in modern times, which the British Govern ment has occasionally been compelled to make of austerity and rigour. Since Earl Grey's Government, in defiance of political consistency, carried the Coercion Bill through Parliament, and subjected a large and populous district of the country, without any very scrupulous or accurate appreciation of existing necessity, to its austere provisions, the whole of Ireland has been comparatively tranquil. But we cannot but doubt the permanency of this improvement, now that Earl Grey's Government have sent to Ireland a nominal Lord Lieutenant, who, with many dis qualifications, does not possess a single recom mendation for that office of display but the fact that it is exceedingly doubtful whether lie is a Rom an Cath o li c or a Protestant, w hil e a ll hi s leanings and partialities are known to be in fa vour of the professors of the former faith, accom panied by a Secretary to whom all the details of Irish Government are really to be intrusted, and of whose fitness or unfitness for the office no judgment can be formed, except that he is one of the vehement professors o f liberalism, and took especial care to signalise his entrance into office by a very condescending attempt to propitiate the fa vour and friendship of Mr. O'Connell. With a Lord Lieutenant parading his complaisance to the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and an Irish Secretary parading his respect to Mr. O'Connell, it is certainly to be apprehended that even t h e Coercion Bill of Lord Grey may soon cease to be efficacious. The state in which Ireland is at this moment placed is an opprobrium to the British Government and Legislature. It was surely to be expected after the application of _so unconstitutional a measure of restrain t as the Coercion Bill of Lord Grey, and after that !measure had partially succeeded in the restora tiQn of at least temporary tranquillity, that some thing more would have been done by the Lx . - ecutive Government of Great Britain, with a view to make that tranquillity lasting, than giving to Ireland two such Statesmen for her rulers as the Marquis Wellesley and his son-in-law Mr. Littleton, and that something more would have been done by the Legislature than agitating every question, without settling any, that has ever been at issue between the two religious divisions of the Irish people., than despoil ing and degrading l'oe Protestant Church, without afrording, any sensible relief, or any permanent satisfaction to the Roman Ca tholic portion of the Irish community. Ministers might have availed themselves of the precious instant of comparative repose which the Bill of unconstitutional coercion had afforded them, to lay the solid foundations of permanent peace and progressive civilization and prosperity, by the introduction of sonic system of poor laws which would have given the owners of land, the men who possess influence and power over the general condition of society, a permanent and sensible interest in the well-being and good conduct of the classes by whom the land is occupied and cultivated. By this means the rancorous hostility which has always prevailed in Ireland between class and class, sect and sect, clan and clan, parish and parish, might have been mitigated by degrees, until all minor distinctions had been lost in the ffeneral name of Irishmen ; and in Ireland, as in all other civilized countries, the well-regulated activity and enterprise of indivi duals, competing with each other under the control of laws well understood and pro perly respected, might have diffused health, vigour, and harmony throughout the whole struc ture of society. Instead of this, what are the measures which have occupied the British Go vernment since the fierce passions and sanguinary turbulence of the Irish people have been en chained by an authority wholly despotic, in order to afford time and opportunity for wholesome legislation ? The hostility of the Roman Ca tholic portion of the Irish people towards the Protestant establishments and the Protestant people of that country has been encouraged ; turbulence and agitation have been inculcated as the best means by which to pursue the objects most gratifying to that spirit of hostility ; the Roman Catholics have been taught, by Act of Parliament, that their hostility to the Protestant Church is not to be unavailing, and that turbu lence and agitation employed in such a cause shall assuredly not go without its desired reward. This is the high premium for turbulence and agitation which has been offered to the Roman Catholics as a class. But an other premium also of a different nature has at the same time been offered to individuals. Ministers have contrived a method of dealing with the tithe question which robs and degrades the Protestant Church, thus rewarding the Ro man Catholics in the aggregate for their syste matic resistance to law and government in the matter of tithe ; but of this contrivance the pe culiar and distinguished merit and recommenda tion is, that it rewards individuals of the Roman Catholic persuasion, or of any other persuasion, who have shown enmity to the Protestant Church in exact proportion to the time and the degree in which, under the influence of that enmity, they have resisted and defied the law. Ministers have also reformed the Jury system of Ireland, or, in other words, they have devised a new system of empannelling Juries, the effect of which must be to produce Juries upon every occa sion, civil or criminal, throughout the greater part of Ireland, composed of the very class of persons who for years have been ranged in systematic opposition to British Government, to British institutions, and British law, and in hos- tility equally systematic, but still more intense, to the rights, prosperity, and security of their Protestant fellow-subjects. It is not conceiv able that such a course of government and legis lation can have been devised by rational men for any other purpose than that of creating in Ireland the necessity for a perpetual law of unconstitu tional coercion, of rendering the struggle of op posing sects and parties more and more intense, and of compelling at length every sect and every party to hold the Government which urges them thus violently into collision with each other in detestation and contempt. — Morning Post. Mr. Loudon, in " The Gardener's Maga zine" for October, 1833, has communicated notes on gardens and country seats visited by him from July 27th to September 16th, during a tour through part of Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wilt , shire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent, —certainly an extensive range of country. The same acute and experienced observer passed, he says, deliberately through the same tract of country in 1812 and 1813. As that is precisely the period when, according to our advocates of' depreciation, the condition of the labouring classes was most flourishing, it is worth while to hear what Mr. Loudon says with regard to those appearances from which the condition of the people may be inferred at the two periods. He says, comparing the tract of country as it is now with what it was then, " We have found a decided improvement in the cottage gardens, we may say everywhere, by the more frequent ap pearance of' flowers in them, and by the preva lence of the China rose trained against the walls. The cottage dwellings are, on the whole, not worse ; and on some estates they are a good deal _ _ improved. Many cottages, which be — fore had no gardens, have now considerable portions of ground added to them ; unfortunately not g enerally adjoining the cottage, but in some neighbouring field ; but still there is now hardly a cottage which has not ground attached to it in some way or other. Here and there, through out the country, we observed labourers' cottages of a superior description, erected or erecting with platforms or terraces round them, and lofty orna mental chimney-tops, with ornamental barge boards, pendants, and pinnacles. We think we may fairly trace the origin of these to the circulation of an Encyclopxdia of Cottage Farm, and Villa Architecture ;' a book which we are happy to say has been well received everywhere, and which we trust will, ere long, produce a visible good in every part of the island." The disposition to ornament, may be taken as a tolerable criterion of comfort, be cause the ornamental follows, but does not precede the attainment of the necessary. When ever the labouring people of a country are ragged and dirty, and live in vile huts, we may safely put them down as miserably poor. We are, therefore, m such good authority,ucli gr a t thiafite tle t o visiblehear, from .of thrivin g o f the labou r i ng people, in sjg th n e s tract of country of England • in which the poor laws are supposed to have been most abused, are everywhere manifest. we were equally gratified to find, from an account of a tu Carrickfergus to Dublin, in the Scotsmoalrz,irtowm or three weeks ago, by the accomplish e d Edi tor of that Journal, that the cottages were rapidly improving in appearance in that pail, of Ireland. But while . the cottages are improving, according to Mr. Loudon, the mansions are going to decay. The cry of the Jacobins was, War to the palaces, and peace to the cottages. In England, war has been declared to the palaces, but it is a war of finance. But let us hear what Mr. Loudon says on this subject :—" With respect to gardens and country seats, we may say, that, on the whole, we never saw them in a state of worse keeping. Generally speaking, the more extensive the park and gardens, the worse they are kept. We scarcely recollect above one or two noblemen's places highly kept ; and even one of these will no longer be an exception to the general rule, since pecuniary difficulties have occasioned eleven garden labourers to be discharged from it at once. The noblest place in Britain, perhaps in Europe—Blenheim, is going rapidly to decay. Before entering the great gates at Woodstock, the stranger sees two trees (an ash and a sycamore), each four or five feet high, growing out of the crevices of the stone piers. When the gates are opened, he observes half the lake turned into a morass, covered with rushes. Advancing to his house, he finds part of the architrave over the eastern gate-way fallen down ; and if he goes as far as the cas cade, he will find that the head, or dam, is no longer in a state to retain water, and that, of course, the lake is not so full as it ought to be, by five or six feet. The Duke's private garden, of which we think very little, we shall speak of hereafter in detail. Almost the only highly kept gardens which we saw were those of small pro. prietors, professional men, merchants, or bank ers. Of these, we must give the decided preference, for beauty and keeping united, to the following, which we put down in the order in which we saw them :—Drayton Green, near Acton, Mrs. Laurence ; Taplin House, near Maidenhead, Pascoe Grenfell, Esq.; Bishop's Stoke, near Southampton, the Rev. Thomas Gander ; the garden of the Misses Gamier, near Wickham ; and Redleaf, near Tonbridge Wells, William Wells, Esq. The last was by far the most beautiful, and, except the garden of the Misses Gamier, the most per fectly kept of all the places which we saw. There are a number of gardens which approach to the above—some in point of high keeping, others in scenic beauty, and some in both united ; but they have all something about them which pre vents our giving them unqualified praise." Mr. Loudon endeavours to remove apprehension from the minds of gardeners on account of this falling off in the circumstances of the high aristo cracy. " Let not (he says) this view of the decay of Noblemen's gardens induce gardeners in want of places to despair. Every gardener who has seen much service knows that a situ ation under a rich tradesman, merchant, or small landed proprietor, is productive of far more comfort to him than one under a noble man, where so many intermediate persons come in between him and his employer, that he is at all times liable to misrepresentation, and to be discharged without even an opportunity of ex planation. As far as we have observed, the pay given to their head gardeners by men who are themselves in business is as great as, in many instances greater than, that given by noblemen. As the country goes on improving, the small places will greatly increase, and with them a taste for gardening, and situations for first-rate gardeners." We observe in the evidence before the Agricultural Committee something like an endeavour (from the nature of the questions put to Mr. Blamire) to make it appear that, in the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, the changes in circumstances which elsewhere ex hibit themselves in the decay of noblemen's mansions and gardens, are peculiar to the small proprietors. This is from Mr. Blamire's evidence : " Throughout the counties of Cumberland and West moreland is there not a large body of yeotnanry who have inherited small properties from lather to Fe❑ for ages ? A very considerable number. Property is more subdivided there, I suppose, than i❑ any other part of the kingdom. " Upon the conditio❑ of those men, has the circum stance of rent, which has affected the condition of the farmer, operated at all ?—Not unless you consider the payments they have to make out of their land as rent. " What is the condition of those men now, as compared with their condition at the end of the war ?—The number has considerably diminished, and the situation of those who are still in existence is considerably worse than it was; there are very few of them whose properties are altogether unincumbered. " Has their number been much diminished lately Their number is constantly diminishing ; small estates are constantly being thrown upon the market, and often bought by wealthier classes. " As those small estates are brought to market do small proprietors step in and buy them, or are they absorbed into large properties ?—Frequentiv absorbed into large pro perties, but occasionally bought by men who have realized money in trade or in large farms, and who are withdrawing their capital from large farms and investing it in the purchase of landed property. " Is not the reluctance very great on the part of the yeoman before he consents to part with his little hereditary property ?—So great that he is often induced to cling to it longer than it is prudent to do so ; he is paying interest for money borrowed upon it, which is pressing more severely upon him than any rent could do. " Have you reason to believe that since 1815 a greater change has taken place in the proprietors of the small farms than in any antecedent period of much longer dura. tion ?—I believe that to be the case from what I have heard and seen. " Do you know for how many generations this land has been transmitted from father to son ?—ln many in stances for very long perioth. A considerable portion of the property is copy hold, and I have frequently seen ad mittances from the time of Queen Elizabeth in the same family name. " Have you seen many of those alienated since 1815 ? A great many ; and there are still many other properties waiting for a sale, in the expectation that the state of the money market may get better. " Knowing the character of the men in whose circum stances that change has taken place, can you state whether it has arisen from any important alteration in their habit of living, or tt , .y extravagance, or any diminished industry ? —Generally speaking, not ; but the parties have had large families, and they have, from a miscalculation of their real situation, been induced to leave to their children larger fortunes than they ought to have done, and to saddle the oldest eon with the payment of a sum of money which it was impossible he could provide for. That has been the case to a very great degree, particularly where the lands so devised were lands of inferior quality. I know some remarkable instance, where parents have left a pro vision for younger children out of estates which have not been sold during the continuance of high prices, and which have fallen so much within their calculations as to leave to the eldest son hardly anything. " Does the description you have given of the habits of the tenantry of Cumberland and Westmoreland apply almost in every respect to the habits of the smaller yeomanry ?—There is no difference in their mode of li v i n g ; they are quite as frugal, and often more so, and their situation is often worse." The nobleman and the yeoman are in truth subject to the same laws of change. Men who have large families must provide for those families, and mortgage their properties; mort gages are never redeemed from rents ; and when the properties come into the market, men who have realised money in trade, or in large farms, invest their capital in the purchase of the property of the nobleman or of the yeoman. It is an understood matter that an estate of 1,0001. a year and under seldom goes beyond the third generation in the same family. The church, the colonies, the army, and the navy, have hitherto, in some degree, prevented the rule from operating with full force on the aristocracy. Still, with all the care taken to give permanency to any order, it will in the end be found unavail ing. Men who live on rents, and keep up mansions, never save money. Provisions for children cannot always be obtained from the State ; theta come mortgages, and the decay of mansions and gardens. We have no doubt that much of the opposition of the aristocracy to registration, arises from their unwillingness to let it be known that in many cases their estates are mortgaged to their full value. There is no such thing as permanency in nature. Families must fall and rise. The mansion of the great landowner only accelerates his fall ; for that which he might be able to keep up while his estate is unincumbered, becomes unsuited to a narrower income. Now that a Reformed Parliament gives to the middle classes a control over the finances of the country, which must, of course, lead to reduced expen diture at home and abroad, the difficulties of the already deeply encumbered aristocracy must rapidly augment. The ingenious M. Simond tells us in his " Account of Switzerland," that in consequence of the reverses of fortune of the Berne Aristocracy, most of them are in strait ened circumstances, and it is deemed vulgar there to be rich. As in this country we cannot unmake Peers, and the people will take care that no public money shall hereafter be wasted on pauper Peers, merely because they are Peers, we may soon expect also to see in this country, poverty the distinctive characteristic of a Peer, so that the tribunal which decides on all pro perty in the last resort, shall itself be almost without property.—Morning Chronicle. Looking upon the Church of England as by far the most liberal and tolerant of any which has ever possessed the power of being otherwise, it is not without extreme regret that we ever hear of any partial departure from those characteris tics by any of those in whom the execution of its rites and offices is vested. Of all persecution that which wars with the dead is the most blame able, because the most senseless ; nor can ally man of common discernment who attends with a Christian spirit to what passed between our Saviour and the thief on the cross conceive him self endowed with an authority to refuse Chris tian burial to the remains of the most erring of his fellow-men. Least of all should a Protestant minister adopt one of the worst errors of Popery. It is not, therefore, without feelings bordering on disgust that we hear of the curate of a parish, not far from the metropolis, who is stated to have refused to bury the corpse of a man dying in the parish, for no other reason than that he had, when in extremis, refused or neglected to receive the Holy Sacrament. That the spiritual state of the man who " dies and makes no sign" is one of fearful alarm we have every reason to believe ; but when the Minister of the Gospel has done all in his power to calm the bed of death, there his duty and responsibility end, and the spirit having fled to Hitn who gave it, any attempt to wreak ven geance on the lump of clay for the ineffectualness of his spiritual efforts is, to speak of it in the mildest terms, a species of ignorance, not to say of arrogant assumption, which will not hear re flection or discussion. Even the law which for ages wreaked a Vandal-like vengeance on ra tional suicides, has long since yielded to a more enlightened and rational spirit ; and surely it is not for any Minister of the Church to revive within its walls even a worse spirit than this, by denying to a dead body any burial at all, when the law in question went no further than assign ing an ignominious one. With regard to the subsequent burial of the body in question by lay hands, that seems to have been almost the ne cessary consequence of the original error, fur nishing among many an additional proof that if men would weigh the consequences of their ac tions, how many unwise and rash acts they would avoid.—Morning Herald. We have so repeatedly expressed our opi nions upon the subject of the assessed taxes, and so frequently denounced the impolicy of main taining them in opposition to the declared wishes of those who fell most both their inequality and their severe pressure, that in the observa tions which we are about to make upon the new opposition which has been organized against them, we trust to receive credit for our good intentions, if we may not be fortunate enough to deserve it on any other grounds. That opposition has now, in the metropolis at least, assumed a shape, form, and substance which must necessarily render it not only a subject of anxious deliberation to the Government, but of serious import to the country at large. Its form is not that of armed, but of passive resistance — of a determination not to pay voluntarily the taxes alluded to, but to take all the consequences which may result from the refusal, in the shape of seizure of goods, and the expenses which re course to such a procedure must necessarily entail. In the act itself, apart from the intention to resist the authority of the Legislature and the Executive, there is no criminality, and we will not take upon ourselves to aver that, even with these adjuncts, there is anything in it with which the Government can deal otherwise than by re course to the usual mode of recovering unpaid taxes ; but we will put it to all impartial persons, whether the point aimed at is really worthy of the adoption of such an extraordinary step as that of a determination not to pay taxes ? whether the associations which are now formed, or in the course of formation, may not fur nish dangerous precedents for the enforcement of less justifiable claims ?—and, finally, consider ing the hope of the speedy abolition of the whole of the house and window taxes, held out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there be not a way of obtaining the desired repeal quite as effective as that which we are condemning, and infinitely more r agreeable to the spirit of the Constitution ? The first and last questions resolve themselves almost into one ; for if there be a rational ground for hoping that the obnoxious taxes in question will be repealed as soon as the Chancellor of the Ex chequer shall have again a constitutional oppor tunity of proposing their abolition, then is the object aimed at unworthy of the serious stand that is now made, and its accomplishment to be attempted by the usual means resorted to in such cases. It is true that recourse hal been already had to these means, and that it has failed of extorting from the Government more than a doubtful prom promise to compl y w i t h t h e w i s h es o f t h e public ; but it is equally true that neither the op position to those taxes on the one hand, nor the resistance to their abolition on the other, have been of such duration as to justify a collision upon the subject between the Government and the public. Such a result is always to be de plored, when there is a possibility of avoiding it, and such a step ought only to be had recourse to when all fair and peaceable means have utterly failed of success. [his is not only the dictate of the Constitution, but the basis on which society is founded—the principle on which its members must act—the understood, though not expressed, contract between those who govern and those who are governed ; for if both were not occasionally to give way to the wishes of one another, it is quite evident that the results would be, first, a perpetual collision of feeling and will, and, secondly, a complete breaking up of the whole frame of society. To something like the former pass, thanks to the headstrong and impolitic conduct of the Government on the one hand, and the no less rash and ill advised conduct of the people on the other, we have already arrived, and how soon the other might follow, may be easily gathered from the history of other countries at no great distance from our own. But if the object be really not worthy of the doughty resistance threatened, how extremely culpable, and how dangerous, as a precedent, is the form which that resistance has assumed ? It is a combination to resist the payment of a certain portion of the taxes, which the Legislature has decreed to be neces sary for the maintenance of the public credit and the public establishments of the country ; and were the Government to yield in such a case, what could be alleged of it but that it was a mere mockery, or what other results could be expected to follow but the formation of other unions and associations for much less justifiable purposes ? Is there any one who has " a stake in the hedge," as the saying is, who does not see that from the moment of such compliance the arbitrary will of a few might become law to the many--that there would be no security for pro perty—no reliance to be placed upon the Go vernment ? What if all those who were only possessed of property to the amount of 20/. were to form a union to rob all those who were possessed of 40/.—or those who were only possessed of 401. to make themselves equal, by a similar and short expedient, . moth those who were possessed of 100/.? Such things have been, and such unions—we mean uncalled-for unions—only require to be encouraged in order to bring about a repetition of them—a suspension of all obedience to the law—declared hostility between the governors and the governed—and such a total insecurity of property as effectually to destroy that confi dence which forms the basis of individual as well as of national prosperity. The right of re sistance to injustice and oppression, come from what quarter they may, is a sacred right ; but it is not one to which recourse is always to be had ; and as, in the present instance, it is not only not imperatively called for, but, as we have seen, may form the ground of very dangerous precedents, we trust that we shall speedily hear of the dissolution of the unions to which we have referred. The Government, we question not, now estimates at its proper value the dis like entertained to the payment of the assessed taxes, and will, unquestionably, abolish them toto, in the ensuing Session of Parliament. Till then, the enforcement of the law is an impera tive duty, from the execution of which, in strict justice, it ought not to derive any unpopularity. —Morning Advertiser. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR.-The Sugar Market has been very dull all the week ; the estimated purchases are only 1,800 hbds. and trcs. ; the prices may again be stated Is. per cwt. lower ; Sugar, not by any means very brown, sold at 565. The Refined Market continues in a very depressed state, notwithstanding the low stock of goods, and the inactivity of the trade of r, fining ; the reduced price of Muscovades still holds out no inducement to the refiners to extend working; the holders this week appear inclined to accept lower prices, but this does not induce the buyers to come forward ; the latter offer 345. for fine Crashed in quan tity, chiefly for the Mediterranean, but the holders ask 355. There is very little business doing in Refined Sugars this afternoon, and although the stocks on hand are not by any means extensive, lower prices have in some in stances been accepted for the grocery descriptions. For the fine sorts for export, entitled to the bounty on double refined, there have not been so many offers this week, but the refiners still demand 355. a 36.. ; for a few small parcels 345. a 345. 6d. was refused yesterday. MAtratrius SUGAR. --There have been no public or private sales of Mauritius till this forenoon ; the prices have been nearly nominal. By public sale this day 703 bags Mauritius Sugar have been sold at Is. Gd. a 2s. lower, brown 525. a Ms., low to mid. yellow 555. a 575. The demand languid. EAST INDIA SUGAR.-There have been no purchases of East India Sugar this week. FOREIGN SUGAR.-The only purchase of Foreign Sugar is 300 boxes good white Havannah at 245. 6d. ; for fine yellow 275. has been offered and refused. By public sale this day 10 chests Brazil Sugar ; brown sold at 225., mid. soft white at 265. COFFER.-The Coffee Market is still very dull ; the finer descriptions of British Plantation are Si. to 4s. lower ; the ord. is heavy, but nearly supports the previous cur rency; good ord. Jamaica 925. a 931., fine ord. 955. a 965., mid. 995. a 100 s , and good mid. 1129. ; good mid. Berbice 101 s. a 107 a. Foreign and East India are dull, but the prices are well supported ; fine ord. St. Domingo 66v.; Porto Rico, fine ord. 70s. 6d. and 71s. ; Ha vannah, ord. 56.. 6d. a 58s. 6 , 1., good and fine ord. 625. Gd. a 655. 6d. ; good ord. Batavia 68s. a 69a. 6d. ; good• ord. Satnarang, 575. End. a 595. 6d. ; Mocba of fair quality sold 86s. a 88s. ; the latter has been held at 90s. This day our Giffee sales have been 33 casks 32 brie. and 113 bags Plantation Coffee; the casks were Jamaica, and sold at 91s. 6,1. a 925. for fine ord., and 935. a 945. for coloury low mid. ; the brie. and bags pale ord. to mid. Demerara, for which 86s. a 87s. 6d. was given for the former, and 971. 6d. far the latter ; some triage sold at 655. and 755. a 755. 6d., being on the whole about 31. a 4s. less than yesterday ; about 280 bags good ord. green Ceylon found buyers at 63e. a 635. 6d., establishing a fall in this kind of 2s. Gd. a 3s. ; 131 bags ord. to good Sumatra were sold at 545. 6,1. a 565., which is about Is. 6d. a 2s. lower. Foreign remains without alteration, and in no demand. COCOA.-Ttie demand is very limited; a parcel of Red offered at public sale was all taken in, no buyers. This day at public sale 246 bags Trinidad Cocoa, all withdrawn. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The Rum Market has been very languid; the buyers evince no disposition to purchase during the present appearance of the market., ; the quotations are in consequence nominal. In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration. TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has been more firm, and the prices have advanced a shade from the late lowest price ; the market is, however, still in an unsettled state. By public sale this day 1,091 casks new St. Petersburgh Tallow sold 445. a 441. 3d. IRISH Paovistorts.—Since Monday the arrivals of Fo reign Butter have been about 3,000 casks—of Irish 10,500 firkins, and of Bacon only 293 bales; there are, however, several vessels from Ireland close at hand, with a further supply of both Butter and Bacon. Fine Friesland Butter at the qnay we quote 86s. a 87a. per cwt., and if we can note any alteration in Irish since our last, it is a disposi tion on the part of sellers to submit to a little decline in price upon most descriptions ; Carlow, as to repute of shippers, we quote 765. a 81r. on board, '7Bs. a 82s. landed ; Waterford, 735. a 765. on board, 745. a 775. landed ; Belfast, 775. on board, 78s. a '79s. landed ; Cork and Limerick, of good assortment, 755. a 755. 6d. on board, '778. a 775. 6d. landed ; Dublin 70s. a 71s. ; Sligo 71s. and Bainbridge 703. on board, for this month's shipment. Prime small singed new Bacon meets a ready sale at 41s. per cwt. as it arrives, and at 425. on board for such now shipped, and at 40s. for shipment in the course of this month ; sales have been effected this week. Old Bacon is more readily disposed of if ❑ot very much out of condition. Bladder Lard is rather declining in value, and for Hams, Bale and Tierce Middles, Beef and Pork, there is scarcely the least alteration in price or demand this week. COTTON.--The demand for Cotton has been completely suspended : the purchases by private contract do not ex• eeed 200 bags, at prices rather lower. By public sale this day 1,173 bales Surat, all sold bid. very ord. to 74d. good fair ; the ord. horn gd. to Id. lower, fair about tot mer prices. Hors.—There is little alteration in the prices of 1101). or in the duty this week. SrtcEs.—Spices are dull and lower ; Pimento ba g fallen id. to id. per lb. mid. to good quality sold in par' eels 4id. and lid. At a public sale of 2,300 bags PePP ert only one half sold at a reduction of d. a. id. per lb.l half heavy dusty at 4d., good half heavy clean 41a• ana 44d., mid, quality white 6id. a 61d. All other SP l 6 e d e : nominal ; some sales of mid. quality Cassia Ligneat33% . j and Ms. This afternoon Spices generally are off T a lower, first quality Nutttega have been bold at 10. r , Spices no business tran•acting ; some holder ® of reiri, offer parcels at yesterday's prices, which were id. a 4 4,1 ' F e lb. lower. INDIGO.—In Indigo there is no alteration. SILK.—Silk continues firm at the late advance. t y Woor..—ln Wool there is no variation ; the Ow" prices are fully supported. FRUIT.—The holders of Currants, on Tuesday :: advanced the prices to 78s. for Zante, and 80s . for Pa tes' ' and yesterday further accounts having been received fr'i j the island., stating that the damage dune was lil y greater than at first expected, induced them to hold 60 .4 for those price, and under which there does not aPP7, to be any sellers at present. This day, by public '‘ o ', 150 brls., 10 qr. brls., 5 cases New French Prunes a 565. ; 709 qr. chests, 1,490 small boxes, 1,172 ,1 tons, 1,053 half ditto, 672 quarter ditto New InnlYeL, French Plums, the quarter chests sold at 70s. a small boxes 85s. a 1155., cartons, &c., 5/.los. a 91. part sold. TEA.-There is no alteration in the Tea Market; declaration for next title is to be out next week. The C d . °. ce , mittee of the Tea Trade are to-day with Mr. Spring o l l ' o respecting the new scale of duties on Tea, which hav e much dissatisfied all practical men. 41 SALTPETRE.-At public sales 1,170 bags Saltpetre , to 9 refraction, 365. 6d. and 375., which is a gate elude lower. PRICE OF SUGAR. , te a The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cOII of from the Returns made in the week ending the lat as Oct., 1533, is 345. 2sd. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of , 0 Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importo' thereof into Great Britain. PItIOES OF HOPS.—Oct. 4. New Ksnt Pockets (per cwt.) .... 51 ss. 71. Os. to 81. ~°: Choice ._B/. Bs. 01. Os to 91. v,,, East Kent-- - _ 81. Os. 01. Os. to 91. Choice K nt Bags 1( 0' Choice .- Ol. Os. 01. Os to 01. New Sossex Pockets 5/. Cs. 0!. Os. to 61. 10'' Superfine Ditto The Hop Duty is estimatedl Os at 1 0 50 1. ,000/ 05. . t0 71 > I'l PRICE 01 OIL. £4O 0 Rape Oil, brown Refined Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 15 10 Rape Cake, per ton WH I'l ECti A PEL HAY MA ItK I.—Oct. ok Flay 655. Od. to 90s. Od. J Clover.... Od. to 100 i. Straw 14a . ad. to 30, 041. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Oct. 4. Marsh Champions Shaves Middling Os. Od. to 2s. M. ditto. Chats Os. Od. to 2s. ed. ditto. LI.ATHE.R. „d. Per lb. d. t - f! English Horse Hides.- !I ry Spnish Ditto +" Per dozen. 0 Calf Skins.. 30 to Vib. 1 Ditto , , 40 to 601 b. .l Ditto 70 to 9(Nb. PI Small Seals. Greenland 1 6 16 Large 19 PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 25 Ditto, 14 21 Dressing Hides 12 15 Ditto l4 17 Ditto, light Clop Hides, light—..... 12 14 Uitto 4U to 501 b. 13 18 Ditto SHEEP SKINS. ei Polled Lambs N. Od. to 4s. 6d. Polled Skins .... 3s. Od. t° a 5 6 I Down Lambs 2 6 4 0 D0wn5............ 2 0 . - PRICE 01 . " TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. „ .0 6 ; ['own Tallow --..... 48s. Od. Yellow 50ap........................%:.. 00 , Yellow Russia 4Bs. Od. Mottled .....,,'.; . 0 0 7 , vVhite--.............---.—s. Od. White AM... IT , Soap Ditto . s. Od. Graves ..........—.... erv.....• ,r, P Nlelted Stuff 37s. Od. Good Dregs ..............--••• . , Ditto Hough 21s. Od. PR ICE OF RAW FAT. per stone ot 81b. 'rice of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Illelters)... PRICE OE CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as folloi!1;2:1 Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to S. Pd. I Moulds, per dozen.—...,' KET.—Oct.. Per 4. on S. 4 i Walls End Newiriarch...... 16 I v:vi l v‘ i ,, aaa t aa t ill l sss E N EEE nnln o i dd r ddd t B h Lpin, u reye: m raskrnt b deoi :; s 18 Walls End Lambton is W. E. Russell's Hetton... 1 3 i walls End Stewart's...* . 1 Dixon's Butterknowl.... , 6 Walla End Adelaide jo ' Walls End W. E. South Durham* 17 Walls End Tees 1 5 Walls End Wilton P ark It market-days 98. COAL MAW Per Ton. s. d. 15 0 Chester Hain 13 0 East Percy.. l5 6 Holywell Kenton West 15 Ord's Red h ugh 14 6 Pontop Wind50r............ 15 0 17 0 Townley l4 3 Wylain . 15 0 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 17 3 Walls End Blake 15 6 Ditto Burraton .............. 15 0 Walls End Brown's...—. 15 6 W.E. Clarke and C 0...—. 15 0 Walls End Heaton...—. 17 0 Ships arrived since COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE osl‘' I. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beal> Per Quarter. 4.1 Ashburn 54 60 28 32 21 25 40 Basingstoke 52 60 26 32 19 25 ~,1 41 Bath Bridgewater 53 60 26 03 34 Bristol 4B 56 28 32 16 20 Chesterfield 48 58 30 40 20 2 6 :3 Derby 52 60 30 40 20 26 • 4 ,1 Doncaster 48 60 26 33 16 26 .., 4 " Dorchester 53 27 —. 21 " Exeter 46 58 '26 28 17 20 4, G10uce5ter........... 46 58 28 34 16 24 36 Uungerford 46 5, 22 30 16 22 31 42, 40 58 26 30 17 30 "" • " 36 ; Ramsey 56 62 27 29 17 03 Shaftesbury 54 25 17 36 Shepton Mallet 52 56 25 28 '2O 24 4 6 $j Sherborne 52 58 24 3! 22 26 Taunton 50 56 24 28 21 23 '", i s 4 ,• 1 50 54 30 32 20 22 „ a "' (I , Yeovil 54 58 26 30 18 24 . 7 d, ,°'o Per BusheL s. d. s. d. s. d. d. s. d. 1. d. Shrewsbury 70 80 40 50 38 49.0 HULL MARKET.—Oct. 1. A -------- 46''/I' Wheat, Old — s. Ms. 565. Foreign —s. 500. Ms. ln bond... — 4 ' Oats, Poland —s. 18s. 225. 01d......... --- 0 ..„,5., Small or Feed.... —s. 16s. 20s ...4- , A . Foreign —s. 16s. 185 .... ........ OM -- /' Barley, Norf. & Sul —s. 00s. 00s. Line. & Wold• --& _PO Foreign Beans s. 365. 38s. Foreign - - s' oae , ",,,ii. Pease, White —s. 00s. ISt. Grey —4. Oelfr Pares —s. 00s. 00s. F0reign......... ...._,, Rapeseed. in bond n0ne.......... Free, per last 'A). 4' DEVIZES CORN MARKET—Oct. R ti ° Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. S. ti n ' to ;,; 0 Best Wheat 2B 0 to 30 6 Barley Second 25 0 26 0 Oats IS 0 0 o 0 0 Thirds 2O 0 22 0 Beans (per sack) IS ~ 0 1283 Sacks of Wheat 501(11 0. i Flour (per bag).. 40 L c ,' at the average of " ' Bread (per gall). 1 ~ MEETINGS OF CREDITORS a, AT THE COURT, BASINGLIALL-STIIS' (From the London Gazette.) ON MONDAY, Oct. 7. DIV I DEN DS. ' I J. C. Burckhardt, jeweller, King-street, Golden-squ — T. Chandler, carpenter, Bow-lane, Cheapside ................ H. Dean, cheesemonger, Fore-street, Chripplegate2y W. P. Litt and Co., merchants, Lime-street ......... to BIRTHS. A 4 of ° On the 3d inst., Mrs. Shirrelf, of Lincoln's Inn-fie 141 On the 2d inst., at Shabden-park, Surrey, the HO' fA, Clair, of a son. of, On the 2d inst., of a son, the lady of John Farb° e 'Magdalen-hall, Oxford. tolO w nd O dy .. n po t ifa h rc e ,ea 2d :, i h n an s , nd t. n a , t tP Christie,hree s a o Ed n syq D : e f a o n jf eoarhyn, daughter.Njoonre s th , an: 4 - a 0 t tot At Dery Ormond, Cardiganshire, South Wales, a . ' o f s still-horn. MARRIED. gr. ° A3 141) On the 4th inst. - , at St. Anne's, Limehouse, Dawson, of Monument-yard, to Elizabeth Cro ss, sec ter of the late 11ev. George Williams, of Limehouse•tour,oP On the Ist inst., at All Saints, Martock, Sonne t t oe V. Matthews, to Emma, eldest daughter of the ,P ee , Kiddie, of the former place. On the 3d inst., at Minster, Thanet, by the Rel . ,' i tirpe.' Warner, the Rev. G. W. Sicklemore, rector of oo o ' • , of Kent. the Canterbury, to Catherine, only child of 130.1011 t' Esq Cleve, On the 3d inst., at Calbourne, ham Henry Agile A'Court, eldest son of Lord 13 Sir Elizabeth Worsley, eldest daughter of t he late Worsley Holmes, Bart. Isle of Wight, eitest, Ord D rse lr_ s t. eet, On the (23d nit., in Do nu ore , , ca n Ilanan, relict of Owen Banan, Esq., formerly In erc jot)°, city of Cork, in her 78th year. icy, he I te ;f o At the vicarage, Streatley, Berkshire, aged •- -9 t lid the Wetherall, D D .., chaplain to his Royal Highn ess eri of Kent. ~ of S A Att O On the 3d inst., the Rev. 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