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that tiTe tyranny of one portion of the journey. 112 'of the capital is equally hist:ppm table.— Mr. Poulett Scrope has addressed a letter to the agriculturists of the West of England, which we have transferred to our columns. The sub ject of it is the continued and increasing de pression of the markets, while the outgoings of the farmer have scarcely fallen at all. The market has been kept down by the continually increasing importation of Irish produce, raised under pecu liar circumstances. The Irish grower, for in stance, is enabled to undersell the English grower through the unjust and unwarrantable difference of the laws under which he eniri, vates his land and the Englishman his. "In England (says Mr. P. Scrope), the Poo r L aws have kept up the standard of living among our agricultural labourers, in spite of their redundant number; and have prevented wages from fallinrr below an average of Is. 6]. per clay. In Ireland, wages are from 4d. to 10d. per day, because Mere is no poor law ! How can an English farmer, paying Is. 6d. a day to his labourers, compete in the market with the Irish farmer, who pays an average of 7d. a day to his la bourers ? In England, a farmer is forced by law to pay from three to ten shillings an acre poor rate; while the Irish farmer pays no poor rate at all ! Is it wonderful, then, that the latter can beat the former out of his own markets But this is not all. To make the difference still more galling and unjust, a very large pro portion of our heavy poor rates is paid to main tain in idleness the surplus labourers of our parishes, who are deprived of the employment they would otherwise obtain in London and all the large towns of the kingdom, by the hordes of starving Irish that are driven over here from the want of a poor law in their own country. indirectly, we thus pay for the support of the Irish poor as well as our own ; while the Irish landowner, paying no tax of the kind at all, and hiring his half-famished labourers for one-third of the wages the law compels us to give,sends over to our markets his corn and cattle,his butter and bacon raised at half the cost of our produce, which has to meet it there, and pockets the difference in the shape of an exorbitant rent." Mr. Scrope affirms that the farmers of Ireland are worse off than the serfs of Russia—that the whole pro duce of' the soil of Ireland goes to the land holders, except the dry potatoes on which the peasantry support a miserable existence. And he contends, that it' the Irish cultivators are not raised to the level of the English, the English must sink to the level of theirs. In noticing the evidence before the Agricultural Committee, we drew attention to the sensible observations of Mr. Oliver on this subject. Mr. Oliver showed that the English Poor Laws prevented the English farmer from availing himself of the low price labour of the Irish ; for, were he to employ Irishmen, he would have to maintain his own labourers in idleness. But neither Mr. Scrope nor Mr. Oliver states the whole amount of the injustice caused by the relations between Eng land and Ireland. At a first glance it is quite obvious, that the effect of the difference of the circumstances under which food is raised in the two countries, is to allow land to pay rent in Ireland which can afford to pay none in Eng land. The poor rates keep tip the price of labour in England, so that food cannot be brought to markenti 11 a ranch higher expenditure is replaced to the farmer than the Irish expenditure. The English market, however, determines prices, and the Irish landholders pocket all the difference be tweenthe cost of producing food in England and in Ireland. Where there is a glut, the Irish landowner and his peasant representative can al ways afford to sell, because the necessary expen diture is merely dry potatoes, whereas the moment the English farmer does not replace his heavy ex penditure he is ruined, and goes to the workhouse. But this is not the worst of it. Every man of any discernment knows that the great, we may almost say the sole cause of the disturbed state of Ire land, is the relation between the owners of the soil and the cultivators. Religion is a mere pre text. Men never fight about their inheritance in another world, but they varnish over their quarrels for a share of the goods of this world, with pretexts borrowed from another. The land holders of Ireland could not maintain the unna tural state of things which prevails in that coun try a single day, without the aid of a heavy esta blishment of soldiers and police, paid for by England. The English people support their own poor in idleness to enable Irish landowners to raise food by potatoe fed labourers, and, be sides, are at the expense of collecting rents from these half famished wretches, who are kept in order by the bayonet alone. The Russian land owner is responsible for the maintenance of his serfs ; the Polish landowner is in like manner responsible for the maintenance of his serfs ; and they are obliged to see that their human stock does not exceed the wants of their estates. The aged and the infirm are thrown upon their hands. But the Irish landlord avails himself of the com petition of half famished savages to the very ut most, knowing that when the excessive num bers, that periodical famines leave become tur bulent and unruly the English people are bound to preserve order among them, and he can drive them to the hedges and ditches whenever he pleases. It is so usual for a landowner to turn out two or three hundred wretches to starve, that the matter is hardly deemed worth mentioning. In the very last Dublin Morning Register received, the number for November Ist, there is an account of an ejectment of nearly 300 tenants at one time, by a Lady Ross, and it would be no very difficult matter to predict the fate of these poor wretches. The poor Irish serf has all the disadvantages of slavery, without its corresponding advantages; he is fed and treated worse than a slave, while he has all the uneasiness, with respect to the future, of a free man. The clever author of " England and America" says that " the Irish, as a people, seem deficient in courage ;" but though (as he says) " they have often submitted to a handful of English soldiers," they could not but be aware that the whole force of England was at the dis posal of their task-masters. Had Ireland been removed by a wide space from England, the handful of English soldiers would soon have been disposed or, and the Irish landholders into the bargain. But in truth, the state of things in Ireland would never have existed, but for the prox i m ity of England to Ireland. By what magic could one individual have prevailed on three hundred labourers to cultivate an estate for him, on the condition of their being fed good years , and starved w h en the potatoe crop on potatoes in fai l s , t h e whol e p ro d uce being taken by the individual in question ? The very idea is absurd. Interest or force must have been the motives influencing the cultivators. Interest, of course, could not determine }them nd force to such an oppressive contract. supposes a part of the population sufficient to coerce the peasants, and having a sufficient motive for doing so. Long before the popu lation of Ireland could have attained its present amount, the Irish peasants must have been made serfs, or they must have obtained the mastery. But the landlords have been left free to carry oppression and extortion to the uttermost, be cause they well knew that England had a force more than sufficient to coerce the discontented peasantry, and that the - ekpense of that coercion would always be thrown on England. It would he but a just punishment on the agriculturists whom Mr. Poulett Scrope addresses, for their blindness to consequences, were they to suffer still more than they now suffer from the im portation of food raised by potatoe fed serfs, while they cannot rid themselves of a population who must be fed, work or not work. It is the duty of those who are placed above the necessity of labouring for their subsistence, to attend to the interests of the community. Unfortu nately agriculturists are not the only sufferers by the state of things in Ireland. Mr. H. Houldsworth, an English manufacturer, who has been long settled in the vicinity of Glasgow, states, in his evidence before the Committee on Manufactures, &c., that " our mills are almost full of Irish—the greater pro portion of the hands in the mills of Glasgow are either Irish themselves, or of Irish parents born in Scotland." The wretched Irish must accept of work on any terms ; but while crowds of Irish are constantly entering the mills, Mr. Houldsworth admits that there is a continual emigration from the mills of Scotchmen. " They are aware," he says, " that a great excess of hands would have the effect of reducing wages ; the combination, therefore, prefer the pecuniary sacrifice of sending as many of such excess away as is necessary to enable them to keep up the wages of those remaining." Mr. William Graham, jun., extensively concerned in the cotton spinning and power loom weaving, Glas gow, notwithstanding the interest he has, as a master, to put down all combinations, and to represent the working people as in a good con dition, states, " We have had an importation of a great many Irish, which has lowered the gene ral appearance of the people in that respect, be cause the Irish do not appear so well as the Scotch, and the weavers have been degraded in a considerable measure by the excess of Irish hands brought over, which has tended very much to depress the wages in the weaving trade, and, of course, the weavers are not dressed so well as they formerly were. Has the importation of Irish had a greater effect upon the condition of the hand loom weavers than it has had upon any other class of operatives ? No ; when I mentioned the Irish, I referred to the general appearance of the work people going along the streets, that we have a lower class of work people in the streets than we used to have." Mr. Ewart, of Liverpool, stated that " the number of Irish coming to Liverpool is greatly com plained of—that they look very miserable, are badly clothed, and of a sallow complexion." This constant influx of men in the lowest state of wretchedness, must necessarily have a per nicious effect on the habits of the population ; and we can easily account for the filth and abo minations of all kinds, said by Dr. Kay to exist in Manchester, from knowing the life to which the Irish have been previously accustomed. "If (says the author of England and America') the English markets of labour were confined to Englishmen, and if, above all, pains were taken to raise still higher the English la bourer's estimate of what is necessary, the minimum of wages in England would pro bably become sufficient to support all la bourers in a state of decency and comfort. But the English markets of labour, and especially those of manufacturing labour, are not confined to Englishmen ; they are full of Irish labourers, ‘v ho fly from Ireland to escape death by famine. Those whose estimate ofnecessary wages is a hovel, rags, and potatoes, by underselling the English workman, by consenting to work for the lowest wages that will support life, compel the English labourer to adopt the same course, and thus re duce the general minimum of wages to a wretched pittance. The Irish workman is content with his wretchedness, the English workman is not. Here lies the only difference between them. The discontent of the English, if properly encou raged, might soon lead to a higher minimum of wages, were it not for the competition of the Irish. It is the competition of Irish labour which ruins the manufacturing population of England. In some difficult manufactures, truly, where the labour of the barbarous and easily satisfied Irishman would not be worth having at any price, we find a rate of wages high, when compared with that which always attends Irish competition. But improvements in the use of steam power, rendering the work performed by man's labour more simple and easy, have lately diminished, and will still further dimi nish, the number of these difficult manufactures, which already must be considered as exceptions to the general rule. In English manufactures, the general rule is Irish wages." We believe there is in this some exaggeration. The general average of the wages of our manufacturers is higher con siderably than Irish wages. But it is impossible to doubt that Irish competition has a strong tendency to lower the minimum in many manu factures. Are we to be astonished when we hear it stated that in many trades combinations have been successful in preventing reductions of wages, that the workmen should be led to the desperate expedient of securing themselves by Trade Unions ? These Unions are, unquestionably, highly mischievous ; but they are the offspring of a notion among the working people, that without such a despotism they would be sacrificed to Irish landowners, who would breed legions of paupers, and inundate the markets of labour with them. We ought not to afford any justification to the workmen for adopting these desperate courses. In the meantime, we are glad to see Mr. P. Scrope addressing himself to the ally most to be depended on—namely, selfishness. Humanity is never so active as when we are driven to it by a regard for our own safety.— Morning Chronicle. We last week entered upon an examination of the statements made by the Edinburgh Re view of the general state of all the commercial interests of the country, purporting to be founded on the evidence taken before the Committee appointed to inquire into that subject. In doing this it was our object to bring fully and clearly forward the assertions and representations of the Reviewer, with the view of preventing any misconception of the tendency of the arguments and the character of the testimony by which those assertions and representations are profes sedly supported. Having directed attention to this specimen of the attempts which have been and which will continue to be, made to conceal as much as possible from observation the truly alarming condition of the large mass of the population of the country, we now purpose to proceed to lay before our readers some extracts from the evidence printed by the Committee, which will sufficiently prove the true state of the large and important interests boldly asserted to be in a satisfactory and flourishing state. We insert to-day some extracts from the evidence laid before the Committee on Manufactures, Commerce, and Shipping, as to the present interests of and future prospects of the shipping of this country. These and future extracts will be found to contain the substance of the state ments received and published by the Committee upon this branch of their inquiry. We have taken the evidence affecting the shipping in terest, in the first place, because, in a national point of view, that interest must be regarded as of superior importance. It was on this ground that Adam Smith admitted that the system of general freedom and commerce ought not to be applied in the case of the shipping interest, the paramount object of British policy being to promote and support in every possible manner the exclusive employment, and thereby to secure, as far as might be practicable, the permanent prosperity of the commercial marine of this country. The evidence which we insert to-day will Flfficiently show the manner in which this principle has been attended to by the statesmen of the present day. The witnesses, Mr. Innis, Mr. Woolcombe, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Powles, Mr. Nickols, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Barry, are gentlemen whose authority is indisputable, and we commend their statements to the attention of our readers. With respect to the ge neral condition of the people at large, we take the present opportunity of referring to two facts, which are in themselves sufficiently strong pre sumptive evidence of what that condition must really be. Those facts are the increase in the sums annually expended for the relief of the poor, and the corresponding increase in the number of the criminals annually committed for trial. The accounts are as follow : Amount expended Criminals for Relief of commited the l'oor. for Trial. 1826. £5,676,000 15,986 1827 6,179,800 17,654 1828 6,031,000 16,307 1 829 .6,068,000 18,432 1830 6,553,000 17,759 1831 6 509,000 19,269 1832 6,731,000 20,486 Some assurance and no small degree of inge nuity must be requisite to establish, or even to attempt to establish, in the face of these state ments, the assertion that all the great branches of industry are, in no ordinary degree, pros perous. The increase in the amount of the poor rates is one-fifth, and has taken place not withstanding the increasing difficulties which have been objected to the applicants to this source of relief. Daily experience of the gene ral proceedings of parishes throughout the country has shown that every claim for assistance which could feasibly be ref Used has been resisted, until the required pittance has been literally extorted from the parish officers, themselves obliged to extort, in like manner, the funds applicable for this purpose from rate payers, many of whom are indeed scarcely above the condition of the paupers whose wants they are called upon to relieve. Under these circum stances the sum expended for the maintenance of the poor has, as we have before stated, increased one-fifth. The number of criminals has increased during the same time very nearly to the extent of one-third. To deny that this melancholy augmentation in the amount of crime is attributable to the diminution of comforts, and the more severe privations to which the people at large arc subjected, would be to maintain that they have become wantonly depraved and viciously de graded in their character. Those who deny any falling off in the material comforts of the people must maintain that there has been a progressive abasement in their moral condition. Those who withhold their credence from the plea of necessity, urged in extenuation of the offenders, must not forget that the absence of that neces sity would be a fearful aggravation of the crime, and a melancholy and alarming symptom of a national degeneration from virtue, and a cor rupted appetite for vice. It would, indeed, be a gloomy prospect for their country if we could believe for a moment that the people, enjoying, it is assumed, the comforts befitting their sta tion, and possessing therefore everything they were accustomed to require, or entitled to ex pect, were becoming discontented with the po sition allotted to them in this world without a cause to justify their murmurs—if we could be lieve that there was some monstrous decline in the standard of popular morality, some prodigious growth of depraved propensities among the great body of the people of England, without the shadow of a cause to account for or justify the prodigy. If this were the case it would afford se rious reason ofapprehension for the future destinies of the nation. Where the cause of a disease can be detected the physician may hope, by applying the resources of science and experience, to providea remedy ; but where the disease is ma nifest, but the cause is concealed—where the ravages of a dangerous disorder are displayed, but there are no symptoms to indicate the pre sence of the evil which has given rise to the malady, there is then but small hope of effecting any cure. Such are the conclusions which must inevitably follow from the statements of those ' who persist in maintaining that the condition of the people generally is one of progressive comfort. Those who are prepared to place any reliance on such assertions must be prepared at once to admit a correspondently progressive tendency to wanton crime, which ought to re ceive, if it be supposed possible, the immediate and most serious attention of the Legislature. The plain fact is, as we have before stated, that the increase of crimes is occasioned by the greater destitution of the industrious classes, who are thereby driven to endeavour to obtain, by unlawful means, the subsistence which their utmost honest exertions are incompetent to se cure.—Morning Herald. We have for some time past been attracted by an advertisement in all the papers, and by a placard on most of the walls of the metropolis, and elsewhere, commencing " Official,' and " By the authority of Parliament," relating to the Glasgow Lottery. We have been labouring under au erroneous impression, we conclude, that such speculations had ceased to exist " by authority of Parliament," for we can scarcely imagine that it would be attempted to advance any private speculation by this announcement. The vigilance of the Government would surely have discovered such an attempt to impose on the public, and the law officers of the Crown, would at once have proceeded against the offending parties. We have, neverthe less, t h e impression strongly on our mind, that, no later than the last Session of Par liamentbse ans Lord on A tlitlheorp , in reply to some ti subject, d ec l are d that, though there observations might possibly be a flaw in the Act, which, for the present, might seem to to lerate this particular case, nevertheless, even should this be so, it should be his care to prevent the possibility of any second attempt to renew those nuisances, and that his immediate attention should be given to the subject for this purpose. Our present observations have been called forth by seeing the second drawing of this same lottery, headed by the words which we have quoted above. The disgraceful negligence, however, which such an oversight on the part of the Go vernment would evince, leads us to pause, and to seek from our Ministerial contemporaries some information on the subject before we lay so heavy an accusation to the charge of the Government.—Morning Post. The termagant tenant of Derrynane Abbey has again sounded the civil war note of repeal— he is now, he says, a " bitter repealer," and he has been made so, according to his statement— which, by the bye, we take the liberty of disbe lieving—" by the Reform Ministry, and the Reformed Parliament." How either the one or the other could have effected such a change, seeing that, on all possible grounds of compari son, the Reform Ministry and the Reformed Parliament have proved, with all their faults and failings, better than their unreformed predecessors, it would have been difficult to have discovered, but for the kind assis tance of the person who has undergone the process of conversion, and who has un wittingly let the cat out of the bag, to the great edification, we doubt not, of all the true friends of Ireland. It was the Coercion Bill that did it, says he—that Bill which " he who forgets or forgives must be a miscreant Irishman, on whom harsh words are thrown away"—but which has, nevertheless, restored more tran quillity to Ireland than it has enjoyed during any one year for the last half century. This is unquestionably a powerful reason for the renewal of agitation, and we accordingly find the hero of the " riot"—which, by the bye, is said to have been lately rather unprofitable—breaking forth in a strain of eloquence so truly Irish, that nothing but a powerful Irish motive could have prompted it. " This is my first act of renewed agitation," says " I raise the peaceful, the canstitutional, the ever un stained and bloodless standard of Repeal—l nail the colours to the mast. Repeal, nothing short of Repeal-- Repeal, undisfigured and undisguised by any one partisan or sectarian feeling. Repeal, not for sectarian or party ascendancy, but for all the people, of every class, grade, sect, and persuasion. Repeal—to secure the possessions of the rich, and to reward the industry of the poor. Re peal—to establish the equality of the civil rights of all Christians, and to promote the genuine spirit of Christian charity amongst them—a spirit which cannot exist in genuine purity wherever one sect is placed in superiority over another. R e p e al—t o ena bl e us , as a na ti on , t o ex press our scorn and detestation of the coercionists, and to render it impossible again to deprive us by Act of Par liament of the protection of a civil constitution." This truly Irish rhodomontade has met, most unexpectedly and without the slightest concert, with an equally strong, and equally true English answer, which will be found elsewhere. It is from the pen of Mr. Poulett Scrope, and al though it only embraces one view of the ques tion, must, we think, startle the conviction of the most " hitter repealers" respecting the pa triotism and infallibility of Mr. O'Connell, and the soundness of his views regarding the future improvement of Ireland. Mr. Scrope proves to demonstration that the English landlord—the English tenant—and the English labourer— are in a gradual, but certain and rapid state of decay, in consequence of causes wholly Irish, which have only to be stated in order to con vince every one of their baleful influence—first, the increased import of Irish produce into England—secondly, the increase of Irish labour in the English market—thirdly, the exemption of the people of Ireland from the payment of many of those taxes to which the people of this country are subject—fourthly, the enjoyment in Ireland of a species of currency, the employ ment of which is forbidden here, but which greatly tends, wherever it is permitted, to aug ment production, and to facilitate exchange— and lastly, to the absence of poor laws in Ireland, and the consequent maintenance of the Irish poor by the people of England. With Mr. Scrope's notions upon these points we profess to have nothing to do, but what he has stated is neither more nor less than the fact ; and we commend a due consideration of his letter to that unthinking class of our fellow countrymen who pin their faith upon the assertions of the Agitator, and are inclined to follow in his path, wherever it may lead. L e t ikir. O'Connell answer it, if he can—let his partisans answer it, if they can—let them have repeal, if they desire it, and the support of their own poor, and of an exclusive govern ment—and of a shutting out of their produce from the British market—but, in Heaven's name, let us have no more nonsense about the repeal of the Union. It is a mere bugbear—a net for the collection of the " O'Connell rent" —and nothing more—a cheat upon the igno rant—an intended fright to Englishmen, who cbalenssmingansatge to which live h‘ without veha ve any alluded, of the amid of which the repeal would mercifully deprive us.—Morn ing Advertiser. A MELANCHOLY AccunNT.---Yesterday morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a melan choly accident occurred to Anne Turner, a remarkably fine young woman, between 19 and 20 years of age, a servant in the employ of Mrs. Furmidge, a lady residing in Sloane-street, Chelsea. The poor unfortunate young woman had Inert brewing, and was conveying some of the boiling wort, with hops in it, from out of the copper, to be strained into a large cooler, when, by some acci dent, her foot sliped, and she was precipitated, with a pail full of the boiling liquor, into the cooler. In this dread ful situation the poor sufferer extricated herself, and pro• ceeded into the house—her neck, arms, and hands pre senting a dreadful spectacle, being scalded in a shocking manner. From the glutinous nature of the liquid, on removing her clothes from off her neck, the whole of the skin came off with them, the poor creature enduring the most excruciating sufferings. Surgical assistance was promptly procured, and the usual remedies applied to her in such distres.ing cases. Wednesday a fish woman named Bartlett, who had undertaken to drink seven half pints of gin for a wager, died front the effects of her abominable frolic. Her husband has been in a deplorable state of mind ever since. This wretched woman had a child burnt to death, not long since, through her m is c onduct.—Exeter Times. A cave is said to have been discovered within the Nash Rocks, near Presteign, in Radnorshire, on the estate of the Earl of Oxford, and at an elevation of some hundreds of feet from the plain. The descent from the entrance is 20 feet ; the roof, full 30. The dimen sions may be 300 feet in circumference, but the immense size and number of pillars render it impossible to the eye to ascertain the exact admeasurements. This natural curiosity consists in the petrified pill ars , w hi ch appear to have been formed by dripping from the ce ling or roof. From the length of time nature has been performing her work many of them at least are six feet round at the top.— They reach to the floor, a n d h ave b ecome perfect pillars of s tone, appearing like inverted cones ; others are like i c i c l e s, or, in common terms, caves droppings. The rocks are situated between the Hill Garraway mountains near the river Enwell, where the remains of the ever memorable Sir Samuel Romilly are deposited in the family vault of his late relative, Colonel Foley. It was there in the midst of cataracts and wildest picturesque scenery, that this great lawyer and legislator rested from the fatigues of his profession.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, OCT. 22.—We learn by letters from Presburg, that negotiations are on foot with the Porte, for the pur pose of extending the navigation of the Danube by steam boats to the Black Sea. It is even said their termination is at hand, and this navigation will be shortly organized. Three steamers, of which two are already in use on the Danube, will be employed in this service. COBLENTZ, OCT. 26.—The prices of raw silk having considerably increased for some time past, it is a necessary result that a considerable rise will take place in the prices of manufactured silks. The manufacturers of Crefeld have lately met, and written a circular on this subject to their correspond , nts, in which they inform them that the prices of raw silks have risen in the Italian matkets nearly 50 per cent, in comparison with last year's prices ; and in consequence they ought to increase the price of the manu factured silks 25 or 30 per cent., but they had agreed to raise them only 15 or 18 per cent. on satins and plush, and 20 to 25 on other silks, hoping they will not be obliged to make any further advance. SPIRES, OCT. 27.—The Spires Gazette, which appears to day with a blank of more than a column (struck out by the censors), announces that the directors of the lottery have withdrawn the appeal against the 38 ladies of Neu stadt, and that the cause of Dr. Siebenpfieffer will come on before the tribunal at Frankenthal on the 2d of No vember. DRESDEN, OCT. 19.—The almost acrimonious feeling which has hitherto prevailed in Saxony against joining the great commercial convention of several Germm states seems to have abated, since people have accustomed themselves to consider it as unavoidable. M. Von Zeschen, the Minister of Finance, will go in a few days to Leipsic to make the necessary arrangements. It will he difficult to find suitable subaltern officers for the customhouse system ; with the present excise officers it will be absolutely impossible to carry the Prussian system into effect. The Saxon cha racter in this respect, is quite like the Austrian; it is incapable of strictly executing the laws relative to the customs—nay, it is directly opposed to it. PRESBURG, OCT. 20.—The business in the Diet pro ceeds but slowly ; the law respecting the landed property of the peasants is by no means so far advanced as the Allgenzeine Zeitung has stated. It is, besides, far less complete and comprehensive than it ought to be to effect a sufficiently beneficial change in favour of the poor op pressed peasantry of Hungary. However, a good beginning is made. The promotion of the Hungarian national lan guage does not gain ground, notwithstanding the endea vours of our self-styled patriots. The great majority of the nation begins to see that the general introduction of this language, which is not spoke❑ by a third of the popula. tion, would impede the intercourse with our more civilized neighbours, and thus promote the interested views of the aristocracy.—Nurembury Correspondent, Oct. 28. BERLIN, OCT. 25.—There is a report that Prince Paskewitsch will soon leave Warsaw. An attempt is said to have been made to poison him, hut it was discovered in time. The author of the attempt is not known. VIENNA, OCT. 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 92 13-16; Four per Cents., 82; Bank Shares, 1,197. Allgenzeine Zeitung, Oct. 30. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS, (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) • SucAß.—The Sugar Market last week was in a very depressed state, on account of a few holders pressing sales, which it was impossible to effect without submitting to a further reduction in the prices; the consequence has been a still greater depression in the Market rates ; the sales last week were about 2,000 hhds. and trs., at a decline of 6d. a 1 s. per cwt. The stock of West India Sugar is now 49,777 111,&,. and trs., being 9,334 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius 78,715 being 24,913 more than last year. The delivery of West India is 2,191 hhds. and trs., being 1,244 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius is 2,580 bags, being 2,243 less than the corre sponding week of 1832. The Sugar Market to-day is steady ; the estimated sales about 500 hhdt. and trs. In the Refined Market last week the quantity of pods offer ing was inconsiderable, the supply of the low descriptions particularly was very limited ; there was some demand for Crashed ; for the fine sorts there were extensive inquiries at 325., but no progress was made in the sales, on ac count of the holders asking 335., and generally goods are held with greater firmness. There is no alteration in re fined this afternoon. MAnarrins SUGAR.—The quantity of Mauritius last week was about 3,000 bags, and sold about the same re duction as what had taken place in West India Sugars; very ord. 475. 6d. a 48s. 6d. ; good and fine brown strong, 535. a 541. 6d. This day's sale 885 bags Mauri tius sold 521. a 535. 6d. ; all sold a shade lower than last week. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—lndia House sale last week, 7,134 bags Bengal ; low to good white, 235. 6d. a 295.6 d., about 4s. lower than the last sale, and I s. higher than the general valuations and the previous nominal currency; there are still sortie inquiries for Manilla and Sian Sugar. FOREIGN SUGAR.—Foreign Sugar fell Is. 6d. a 2s. last week : low yellow Havannah 235. 6d., mid. 24-. a 244 6d., good 254. a 264.; Bahia brown, arrived off the coast, sold deliverable at Hamburg at 20s. 6d. Average price of Sugar, 11. 12s. Oid. per cwt. WEST INDIA MOLASSES...—There are considerable sales lately reported of West India Molasses : good quality 275. and 271. 6d. COFFEE.—The Coffee Market has been nearly in a nominal state, particularly for Foreign East India, on ac count of the heavy prompts and the reports of large parcels being, in consequence, forced on the Market for Cash, and sold of course at some reduction ; until this state of things ceases, or the fears of it removed, we cannot expect any regular currency ; the chief sales reported are in Ceylon, 595. a 605.: the public sales have been nearly all bought in. There appears to be some demand for ord. Jamaica C.,ff:e under 935. for home consumption. This day's public sales 100 casks Jamaica good to fine ord. sold at steady prices, 89s. and 925. ; unclean 83s. 6d. and 84s. ; 533 bags Demerara, good ord. clean, 84s. 6d. and 85s. ; all sold much about the previous currency. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The Ruin Market was very heavy last week ; proofs sold at 25., and more were offered at the same price; Jamaica, 32 over, sold at 2s. 9d., which was also lower ; but to-day the Market is more firm, on account of a Government contract for 75,000 gallons being announced; yet the result of these small navy contracts have lately had a❑ unfavourable effect on Market prices, on account of the great competi tion among the dealers to obtain them. In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration. TALLOW.-The Tallow Market has assumed much more firmness ; the price this afternoon' is 445. 6.1. a 455. ASHES.-Public sales this day : 400 brls. Canada Pearls, 249. 6d. a 255.; Pots, 245. 6d. a 245. 91 SPICES.—The late favourite article of speculation, Pepper, appears to be completely abandoned, on account of the direct arrivals in the European ports, particularly in the Mediterranean. About 6,000 bags offered at public sale on Friday, and sold at a further reduction of id. to id. per lb. ; ord. stalky 3d. a 3id., good half heavy sid. 3,024 bags Bengal and Malabar Ginger 345. a 38s. Pimento was id. lower; ord. 4id. a 48d., mid. to fine lid. a 4d. The Pimento in this day's sale, 463 bags, sold with briskness 4d. a did., recovering the depression submitted to last week. COTTON. --There have been no purchasers of Cotton by private contract; the prices have been receding weekly for some time past, and are now Id. to 1 id. lower than the late highest point. By public sale on Friday, 1,400 bales Surats, of which about 900 sold, good quality varying from id. to Ad. per lb. below the nominal prices of the Market. Ons.—ln Fish Oil no variation. Linseed Oil has risen ls. per cwt., and further extensive purchases have been made for shipping ; sales have been made for deli veries all the way to June next year. Seed is also much in request, and cannot be bought to produce Oil at the advance. Rape Oil a shade dearer. IRISH PROVISIONS.—The arrivals in the last week were of Foreign Butter 7,888 casks, of Irish only 2,905 firkins, and 382 bales Bacon. The Butter and Bacon Market has been for several days, and still con- Wines, in a very inactive state, and although prices are at present several pounds per ton lower than they were at this time last year, and no great weight of stock now lying at the wharfs, there is no disposition evinced by the trade to purchase beyond their immediate necessities; how ever, from the number of vessels at present on the pas sage from Ireland with Butter and Bacon, large supplies may be daily looked for, and from the continuance of mild weather, and the recollection of the losses sustained by speculative operations last season, all those circumstances combint,d are in some degree the cause of the present de pression. Friesland Butter, at the quay we quote 945. a 955. per cwt. ; Carlow, as to repute of shippers, 781. a 82*. on board, 80a. a 84s. landed ; Belfast 80s. on board, 82s. lauded ; Waterford 71s. on board, 735. a '751. landed. Cork of good assortment, 735. on board 755. a 765. landed, inferior assortments 706. a 71s. on board ; Limerick 72.. 6d. a 735. on board, 75 , . to arrive, 765. landed ; Sligo, 705 . on board, 735. landed ; Dublin 69.. a 70.. on board, 70 s. a 71s. landed ; West- B rn a e n a b th rid 7 ge ls 7 . Os o . on board , on board,73s. land e d ; N ewry 69 5 ., and for p arce l s now s hi p p e d and on the passage. Prime small singed Bacon 40.. a 415., and in some partial instances 42 5 ., an d h eav y 341. 4 fi st landed ; at 365. for sizeable, and 325. for heavy, th ere d O O a few sellers of Waterford and Lim er i c k s i ng ed 13a , c iii,1' board for next two month s ' shipment. B e lf as t Bole s e l , dies we quote 325. on board, and same price landed• a d, fast Tierce Middles 355., and Limerick 375. a 3810 3° 0 Belfast Bladder Lard 48s. a 495. on board, 51'. 1 landed, and Limerick and Waterford 50s. a 515. On if 535. a 545. landed. Fi ne I r i s h H am st ill sca rce, 80 0 r io Beef or Pork very littl e d o i ng e i t h er i n o ld lande d new for shipment, prices for which are nominal. TOBACCO.—There is a great impulse given to tbeoo bacco Marker, i n consequence o f t h e reporte d abort cr e, and the rise of the prices in the United States; t 1•110 counts to-day are t o th e 16th u lt. w hi c h f ul l y confi c "" „., c elt preVidus rumours; the late sales are considerable ; P ;s111' of fine at the advance of id. to Id. per lb., Pr lll— Asil for Ireland an d Scotland. There is do export (I°/.4, at present, but th e p r i ces o f a ll d escr i p ti o d 00 3 ' 4 '0 bacco are advan ce d ; no p arce l s o ff er un d er 3d.2 t indeed, ther e are f ew se ll ers o f T o b acco i n this niellieoitho larnico.—lndigo remains more firm than Ine' S leading articles ; if a buyer appears, he must Piper sale's prices to 3d. advance, but if any holder wa s t fob mined to effect sales to an y e xt en t h e must subal l : ce i. considerable discou nt on th e l ate I n di a H ouse es te but SAtTPETßE.—Saltpetre is st ea dy i n t hi s Marse t t i o o, very at Liverpool; the sides here are 45 refo ic A litf , and bad at the r e f rac ti on , 30 1 . and 304. 6d. ; good ( I %l ",blic 355. and 355. 6d.; Sue Company's taken in 1 0 F sale at 365. 6d. o b. Lac DYE.—,'ire advance of ld. to 2d. per lb tamped last week is fully maintained, and there is increasing inquiry. RICE —Rice r is very heavy, and 6d. to Is. pe rt"l ; lower; good bold white Bengal sold 11s, and I** osti , This day's public sale 1,770 bags East India, Patna , 61 , sold at the redu c ti on we h ave state d, i s . per cw t., 161 ' and 164. 0 0/ r 4 CocHlNEAL.—Cochineal i s ra th er more firms count of the late reduction of about 2s. per silvers now offer at 7s. 3d. a 7s. bd. per lb. or Woos..—The public sales of New South Wale" 4 l thine to go off w ith great b r i s k ness, and at rather ift3P,'l6 prices u p on W e d nes d ay ' s sale. The Spanish wools " bags, fair quality, sold at 2% Bd. a 31. 3d., ratblifor vanced prices; 446 bags New South Wales and 1 1 :1 1 men's Land, the former sold at Is. 9d. a 3s. 2t', ht the latter I s . sd. a 2 s . 91d., a ll so ld at f u ll price; English no offers. atO te SILK. --There is rather m o r e d o i ng a t t h e lae tion ; manufacturers finding holders firm feel 1 0 ' posed to purchase. w 1 / 4P COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THS -- Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. ---, Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. 8. to 8 . Utoton Gainsborough ......—. 57 34 ld Grantham .—..........—.. 5 . 46 53 20 34 20 26 Grimsby 46 55 28 32 16 20 Horncastle 47 54 26 34 14 20 Lincoln Spilsby. 48 52 26 30 16 20 Stamford 41 54 31 35 17 .58 Yor k . 46 CO 28 34 18 26 NORWICH, Nov. 2. l'Vheat (per qr.) 40s. 525. 565. Beans (per qr.) Barley 20s. 265. 365, Pease, Oats IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NO' RKETS. I.I.—.FH.IDAY, NOV 4 From To 19 0 31 0 10 0 11 6 11 0 13 (1 7 9 13 0 6 0 20 0 8 9 13 0 2,663 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 29 Bere l6 stone 1,070 Barley- a- 16 stone 2,255 Oats 12 stone 13,714 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 529 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to Bakers only. 10,998 Cwt. Flout Average price of Wheat not Fir Receipts of Flour, 13,1031 Seco sts, nd Stiles of Do. 13,714 Thirds. PRICE OF 8.1. .1 14 0 id Flour 120 01 In. 4d. per 8 nn 17s. )m 14s. Od. Irn 6s. od• fri BREAD. Half Quar , uartern Loaf. CORK MARKFTS.—Nov. 2. Wheat (per 20st.) Barley (per l6st.) Oats (per 14st.) -, Flour (per cwt.) Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 16 „ 'E,4 i Beef, sd. to 6d. ; Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal, 6d. . 0 it ; Pork, 2d. to 20. ; Fresh Butter, Ild. to 1:2 d, Per • • PRI T CE OF BUTTER. o tti' o the Merchants. To the C o° 755. ........................ T. 7 1 ........................ tsi4 61 ........................ , . 41 50 .............. "" .. 3 0 40 ..................... ...,2 ,cl First Quality — Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth klt KETS.—Nov. 1. d• Cwt. i, 6 0 Hides (raw) .32 00 0 a Bacon Pigs 0 4 0 i 0 1 Heads 18 0 0 Bag. ..0 ii II Flour, Thirds 04 0 .... Fourths 14 0 0 larrel. 10 3 IB ar l ey II 0 3 Coals stone. 6 4 ij Tallow (rough) 5 6 6 It Potatoes O3l 3 3 ound. 0 6 'I Mutton ' Veal 0 5 CLONMELL M _ Per s. d. s. d. New Butter 72 0 to 75 0 Oatmeal 10 6 0 — 3ope o or, Rendered Lard 40 0 42 0 0 32 0 Per E Flour, Second....— Household— Rapeseed 20 Bere 10 o 0 0 11 0 Wheat 1 Oats, 0 Per g 21 1 31 71 0 01 Per P 0 1 21 21 0 4 Fresh Butter , 1 Beef 0 per K b l L a f r E e r ; Y F . ü ß r u t l t 2 e: t . 823 30 . B t . o 13 e s r s. 20 14" 0 1 rel ; Barley 10s. to 12 5 . ; B ee f 4d . to 41.1. per lb.; 1 / 1 utt .scl . . to . ; Potatoes' 4d. per s t one; C oa l s I s. ld. per cW' Pigs 265. to :275. Od. per cwt. pba p g er i cwota.ts; SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDING'I'ON CORN MARKET.—Nov' I. l3e o t id Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 5,55 First 64s Od 35s Od 226 Od 2.9 s Od 00 5 0 d Second Ms Od 3Us Od 19s Od —s Od Third 50s Od 28s Od 186 6d Od "!'here were 472 qrs. of Wheat in market, 440 whereof 32 Unsold.-0 Grey. .21. Iss. I Average. DALKIETH CORN MARK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 62s 041 32s Od 23s Od Second s6s Od 28s Od 20s Od Third 4os Od 22s Od 18s Sd T.—oct. 31 . pe o o,l Pease. 1 g 345 Od 53.10,3 325 Od 31s (d Id. 0.12t116. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS ET' AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STI' (From the London Gazette.) I TO-MORROW, Nov. 7. )1 I 1 DIVIDENDS. J. Crawley, linen-draper, Oxford-street ............................. G. Gidley, button-maker, Cateaton-street. .... . ............. J. Dyer and Co., woolstaplers, Gravel-l a ne, Houndsa i '',o:: R. Walkiugham, upholsterer, Hi g h H o lb orn ..........• B. Davenport, merchant, Dunster.court, Mincing-13" BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Croydon, the lady of W. 1 1 -• it " . o rl Esq., of a son. A On the 4th inst., at Tor Abbey, Devon, the la d y ° of George Cary, Esq., of a son. 9 4 '' On the 4th inst., at Dover, the lady of John HayteV Foley-place, of a son, still born. MARRIED. flge On the 24th ult., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Ed w in 1" tt, e' of the Cottage, Wrexham, Denbighshire, to D l3l ' ' m t daughter of Admiral Mackellar. On the sth inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square'. o , d ' a rt , Cobham, jun., Esq., of Ware, Hertf or d s hi re , to La ttl t, daughter of A. C. Bond, Es q ., of Upper BerkeleY-st re " e man-square. ~,r 5' 4 5 ef On the 24th ult., at the British Embassy, Wa - $l, Esq., of Merion-square, Dublin, to Georgina Eliza t, ' daughter of C. Jcnkinson, Esq. lk ,- On the sth inst., at Marylebone Church, Capta in , e Talbot, R.N., to Christain, eldest daughter of the l ate Kidd, Esq. DIED. On the 29th ult., suddenly, of apoplexy, M a jor- oel• Warren. P t ' On the 3d inst., at Oundle, in NorthamptonshliP sixth daughter of the late Arthur Mackie, Esq. , ICP O tt merly of Lewisham, Kent. of On the 4th inst., suddenly, Mr. David Nevill, lane, in the 60th year of his age. A ll' a On the 2cl inst., at Bath, William Randle ShaP — ' p in - specr-eneral of Military Hospitals. cell" re , O to n the Ist inst., at his house, B e rnard's.cre s 4 0' burgh, James Knowles, Esq., of Kirkville, Ab erde` his 56th year. W eStef On the 30th ult., suddenly, of apoplexy, a t Ve t Kent, John Wenham Lewis, Esq., aged 57. sh e Lady Graves has paid the debt of nature. ,eu residing at Boulogne some time, VP I E he ( cholera, which speedily proved fatal. Sago 0; o ci SINGULAR CIIARACTER.—On Tuesday, at ar t po Mrs. Bird, widow, aged sixty-seven; the former P„, a st life she spent in servitude at an inn, but for yeal s t l ie cupied a private house of her own in this town! , _,. r e 11 1 . , Part of which she let as lodgings, and such were (0 0 7 1 , } e . , habits, that she scarcely allowed herself n ecessa e r r J c d!a io raiment. With these propensities it may be ma tt , , ,, o pO e O ce that she should have au unconquerable fondness %itc „ tPr., which she frequently indulged to excess ; yet, ia: r ds 0 ; 0 0, 0 ' g expensive and beastly habit, she amassed to ro ng o sd a , when she was alts Jos thousand pounds, the disposal of which she has 0 esl, to avoid the legacy duties. As she felt her end pt near, having no children, she requested a n attera ve re o , no tr o doc 10 0 m ie mine an ca old box c ontaining three hundred sovereigns , an 0 ' `& s ums were found concealed in a similar inanner, d ; tar ice' , fil e s he ordered to be forwarded to a relative at a t , at ti gave directions that her funeral might be decen t, possible expense.—Colchester Gazette. A.Cl4° PRINTED AND PUBLISHED DY MURDO Y°' - - StrX OFFICE, 112, ITJAND• /R E A k i k uar i geld f /h ate tb d 1 f