The Sun. — London, England, 1833-02-04 00:00:00

',FRENCH PAPERS. (From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.) It. is said that the Portuguese Government has given every satisfaction for the cannonade directed against the French beig of war at the entrance into the Tagus. The Augsburg Gazette of the 29th ult. contains the following of the 24th from Vienna :—" We have received by express from Constantinople further details of the com plete defeat of the Turkish army at Koniah. The conse letences of this important event are to be attributed wholly to the want of good faith on the part of the Grand Vizier, who, though he had concluded with Ibrahim Pacha an armistice till December 23, engaged, previously, in 0 conflict, which proved fatal to him and his army. The Turkish commander had already collected all his forces near Aksher, when foe Grand Vizier resolved to attack Ibrahim. The p,ition of the Egyptian army, in the plain behind Knniah, afforded to a General like Ibrahim immense advantages. The town stood, as it were, a bul wark before him, and the extensive plain presented an excellent field for operations. Ibrahim, consequently, waited confidently for the attack of the Turks. The con flict was long and obstinate, hut at last the whole Ottoman army gave way, when a friehtful massacre ensued. The Turkish army amounted to (30,000 regular and irregular troops, that of Ibrahim Pacha only to 30,000 ; hut the latter were commanded by experienced European officers. The Pacha of Koni th, and Bosnak Ali Pacha, shared the fate of the Grand Vizier ; they were both wounded, and taken prisoners. Mehemet Pacha and Achened Pacha were slain on their retreat near Aksher and Eski-Chehir. The Porte has sent. the few troops which keep garrison at Con. stantinople to Asia. All the troops that could be spared from the provinces have likewise been ordered thither. The Seraskier himself is destined to the command of this weak body of troops. He was to set out in a few day, for Bursa, which town was to be fortified in great haste. The Russian General Muravieff, who has departed from Constantinople to Alexandria, is to demand the submis sion of tie Pacha. Russia is determined to put an end to a war so fatal to the Porte, and, to secure Constanti• nople from an attack, a Russian squadron is expected, which is to oppose any attempt of Ibrahim to pass the c hannel."—Metalliques. 5 per Cents., are 88 15-16 ; ditto, 4 per Cents., 71 —The same paper has the fol lowing, of the 17th ult., from Posen :—" In consequence of the prolonged stay of our President at Berlin, the as• sembling of the States of this province will only take place in February, when impel tant modifications, suited to the times, are expected to he made in the Administration. In consequence of Ministerial orders, M. Schumann, formerly counsellor of Government, but now retired on a pension, was arrested on the I sth. Commissioners had been sent for that purpose from Berlin, who ordered his arrest on the ground of his having carried on a correspondence which seriously compromised him. M. Schumann is one of the representatives of the province in the provincial states, and known for his ultra-liberal principles. It appears that arrests took place at the same time at Thorn, which are said to have arisen from the same cause." The Ga zette also communicates the following, dated Frankfort, Jan. 25 :—" A report is current at Vienna of a loan which the Austrian Government is said to be on the point of contracting. This report, added to the news of the defeat of the Grand Vizier, has caused some depression in the price of Metalliques. The amount of the loan is not p. , sitively stated, but it is asserted that the Vienna hankers, who intend to contract for the loan, have already made in quiries at the banking-houses here as to the share which they might be disposed to take in it." The Gazette has intelligence from Presburg, dated Jan. 20, with details of the sittings of the Hungarian Diet. It appears that the proposed reduction of the public burdens is in favour of the third class, the peasantry. The Diet, notwithstand ing the protest of the Royal Commissioner, has decided that the sittings shall be public, and that the protest of the Commissioner shall not be mentioned in the minutes of the House. It is expected, however, that the Impe rial Government will sanction only such innovations as have been proposed by Ministers. The Memorial Bordelais has the following front Spain : —" The trumpeter Campos, who created himself Lieut.- Colonel, and soon afterwards a full Colonel, in 1823. having been taken with arms in his hands in the riots at ('ehallos, has made depositions in the presence of the King and Queen, and several of the Ministers, which tend tr compromise several personages of high station. The King has considered these depositions sufficient tee warrant proceedings being commenced. The occurrences at Leon are narrated in the following manner :—" An order hav ing arrived for the arrest of art officer of the Royalist Vo lunteere, who had been a Lieutenant of the celebrated priest Merino, it was attempted to be executed at the mo ment when the Volunteers were assembled at the ceremony of the consecration of their colours ; an insurrection took place, the prisoner was rescued, and others who bad beer. previously confined set at liberty. Not content with this, the rebels got the Commandant and other officers into their custody, and proclaimed Charles V. instantly. On hearing of this event General Castro-Terreno set out from Valla dolid to Leon, with rather more than 200 foot soldiers, a few cavalry, and two field pieces. The infantry was composed of the militia of Chincilla, but expresses were sent to Zamora and ether places for more troops. It seems that it has been discovered that an extensive plan of a conspiracy had been formed in the Convent of the Jesuits at Madrid, and that Government is in possession of every part of it. Among the papers found upon the Intendant Marco del Ponte there is one commencing with the following words; The revolution must be effected by blood.' The di rector and sonic of the inferior officers of the Post-office at Valladolid have fled, tarrying with them the correspon dense of the conspirators. One of their plans was to get possession of the Royal Family, and conduct them to To ledo, and there compel the King to abdicate in favour o his brother Carlos, who would have been immediately proclaimed absolute King. All the Ministers were to have been massacred. A certain arroyo, who has taken flight, sta. , at the bead of the plot. General Castano, the Com mandant at Leon, was, it is said, wounded by a pistol eliot before the rebels, who had shut the gates, and put themselves into a state of defence, could arrest him. His brother, however, scaled the walls, and conveyed the pews of the insurrection to Valladolid. The Bishop of Leon has been arrested." The Memorial de la Dordogne, of the 29th ult., states that 800 Poles are to replace, in the depot at Bergerac, those Spanish refugees who have obtained permission to eeturn to their own country. (From the Moniteur of Saturday, Feb. 2.) PARIS, FEB. 1.-The Brestois of tht 24th ult. says 6, Our port and roads present a very animated picture. The telegraph is constantly at work, and, in short, every department here is in full activity. Ships, frigates, and sloops are under repair, fitting out or getting under weigh, vessels from other ports are daily joining them. It is said that the French squadron in the Downs, or at feast a part of it, will shortly come into our roadstead 'Thus every thing indicates the approaching departure of powerful naval force. What is its destination ? This time will show. Orders have just arrived to expedite thi Oiiing nut for sea the Duquesne of the fine, and for arm. Ilurinione frigate. Three companies of the crew pf the Duquesne went on board to-day, asd she will re ;Ave a fourth to-•morrow. The Suffrein, of the line, is in port, preparing to put to sea in the most complete con dition, The Resolu frig ate is taking her departure for the Downs. The sloops Heroine, Nayade, Bayonnaise, and the brig Gonmon, are in the roads, waiting only for orders to sail. They are pressing the levy of sailor-, and bodies of them are daily coming in. They are imme.• diately incorporated into the companies of the division. (From the Constitutionnel of Saturday ) Toutow, JAN. 27.—The telegraphic despatch was re ceived yesterday, which brought orders immediately to arm the Superbe of the line, the Victoria frigate, and several other men-of-war. On the other hand the Marengo, of the line, and the frigates and corvettes now at anchor in our roads, have received orders to be it, t -,e4diness for a mission, the object of which is not stated. Hence pur politicians are in a great bustle. Some pre fend that cur naval force is going to the Levant, as a iL:ttanterpoise to the projects of a Russian squadron, others that it is to assist the Emperor Don Pedro : Some, again, have taken up the old notion of an expedition against ,Constantina, under the Duke of Orleans, or of a &split) pf our naval force on the coast of Hayti, to compel that sloverninent to pay the tribute which it has taken upon itself, but now refuses. (From the Quotidienne of yesterday evening.) A courier from Vienna arrived at the office of the Mini oter fur Foreign AlLite. It was reported that the de spatchts which he brought contained the refusal of the Archduke Charles, of the alliance proposed by Louis Philip for his eldest son. ffte Council of Ministers has met to decide upon a very delicate question. The treasury of Belgium is in such a state of distress, that to think of asking King Leopold fi,r t h e repayment of the expenses of the late war, or even of the campaign of 1831, would he a mere mockery. Yet the Ministers do not dare to ask the French Chamber• finally to place this sum to the debit of our Treasury, and they are seeking a middle course, which has not yet been found. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, SUITING OF FEB. 2. M. Dubin took the cliair at 20 lo.ittutes past 1, Alter the proces verbal had been read Ind adopted the sitting was suspended for 10 minutes. M. Duvergier d'Hauranne then read the report on the budget of the Department of the Interior and Public \Tor• ship. From the low tone in which the Hon. Reporter read, not a syllable was audible beyond the group immedi• lately surrounding the tribune, but it was understood that the committee does not propose any material reduction in the sums asked for by Government. M. de la Pinsonniere developed his proposition for va rious alterations in the laws regulating the attributes of , he Juges de Pais. After a few words from M. Renouard, who urged that the question of the attributions of the Juges de Paix was of great importance, and would require. much more de tailed consideration than would be called for by the im perfect proposition of M. de la Pinsonniere, which applied itself only to some parts of the system, and that therefore it would be better to adjourn the subject until a bill embracing the whole was brought forward. which, on , ccount of the numerous and heavy legislative measures already in progress, could not be during the present ses sion, nor, perhaps, even until the session after next ; the Chamber decided almost unanimously that the proposition of M. de la Pinsonniere should not he taken into con sideration. The sitting was again suspended for nearly half an hour; the deputies present left their places and formed themselves into detached groups ; M. de la Pin •onniere appeared to address warm expostulations to M. Renouard, and the President showed evident marks of impatience at the delay of the Hon. Deputies in arriving. At length the discussion of the articles of the Bill for Regulating the Compulsory Expropriation of Private Property, required for Measures of Public Uutility, was resumed, M. Caumartin proposed as an additional article, to Follow article 7, that copies of the reports of the surveyors should be inserted in a journal of the department, as well 48 left for public inspection at the Mairie. This was ,dopted. On the Sth article M. Jousselin proposed as an amend ment, that the members of the General Council, and Council of Arrondissement, constituting the committee, should be !chosen by the councils themselves, instead of lacing nominated by the Prefect. On the proposition of this amendment, M. Mauguin took occasion to revive the objections made in the pre ceding sitting against the appointment of such a committee at all, contending that in all cases it would be unnecessary, and in many inconvenient and mischievous, since it would be governed by petty and local interests, instead of those of the country. The Hon. Deputy instanced the case of the long projected entrepot at Paris, as a proof of the delay occasioned by these local committees, and inquired how a railroad could be made from Paris to Marseilles if it were to be impeded by the proceedings of these local committees in every commune through which it was to pass. In conclusion, he called on the Chamber to rise superior to 'uch local interests, and prove that the deputies were the representatives of all France, and not of isolate,' districts. —(Loud applause.) The Minister of Commerce objected to the amendment of M. Jousselin as infringing on the prerogatives of the Crown. M. Roger was proceeding to reply to M. Mauguin when ur reporter left. FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, FEB. 2.-Five per Cents., 10Sf. 90c. 104 f. 103 f. 95c. 104 f. 1031. 95c. 1041. 103 f. 95c. 90c. 104 E 103 f. 9.5 c. 1041.; Four and a Half per Cents., 1001.; Four per Cent 4., 92f. 50c. 75c. ; Three per Cents, 78f. sc. 10c. 15c. 10c. sc. 78f. 771. !Cc. 78ft ; National Loan, 103 f. 80c. 90c. SOc. ; Bank Actions, 1 ,675 f. ; Rente de Naples, 89f. 40c. 30c. 50c. 40c. 50c. 89f. 40c. 54)c.; Roman Five per Cents., 63 8214 ; Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 37 37% 37 371 37 36% 37 3674 1 ,4 Royal Spanish Loan, 81.14 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 60% % 16 % 3 ; Belgian Loan, 1831, 83 8214 83. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 70c.; money, 25f.65c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 55c. ; money, 5251. 55c.-fours Authentique. EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS. The Committee of the " Association for obtaining for British Jews the civil rights and privileges now enjoyed by other persons not being of the Established Church," inform their Christian countrymen that a renewed application is about to be made to Parliament for a removal of the civil disabilities affecting such natural born subjects of the United Kingdom as profess the Jewish religion, anti th it petitions in support of this application, addressed to the Lords and Commons, and intended to be signed by Chris tians, of all denominations, have been prepared, and now lie for signature at the undermentioned places. The Com mittee entertain no doubt, that their fellow subjects of all classes will he anxious, by affixing their names to the peti tions, to make known to the Legislature their opinion that, at a time when persons holding the Jewish faith enjoy a perfect equality of political privileges, with all other class,, of relief, in France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Wurtemberg, the United States, aud, by recent Acta, in three colonies of Great Britain itself, namely, Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Canada—England ought not to sanction .n invidious distinction by continuing to exclude her Jewish subjects from rights and franchises which are shared by their fellow citizens here, and by their co religionists in so many parts of the world. The petitions lie for signature at the King's Head, Poultry ; the Free Masons' Tavern ; the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand ; No. 67, Piccadilly ; No. 371, Oxford-street ; the Ape Newspaper Office, Catherine street, Strand ; and Bell's Weekly Messenger Office, urrey.street, Strand. BRUSSELS PAPERS. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JAN. 30.—8 y a despatch from the Minister o f War, dated the 28th inst., General Niellon received officially the confirmation given by the King to the mea sures appointing his successor in the command of the Sixth Divison, and placing him on the retired list. The General is to receive the pay of an officer of his rank, on the re tired list, from Ist Feb. JAN. 30.—An Austrian Cabinet messenger passed through Brussels yesterday morning, on his way from Vienna to London, with despatches. As we have stated before, several corps of our army which had hitherto been encamped or cantoned near the Dutch frontiers are going into positions near to the centre of the country, or even to serve as garrisons OR our southern frontier. Only some journals are wrong in inferring from .his placing part of our army on the peace establishment that there is less appearance of war. For this measure, which is not even equivalent to a partial disarming, serves only to diminish in a small degree the expenses of the Treasury, by taking from our troops for the moment all right to field rations, as well as to indemnities due to troops on the war establishment. The same thing was done last winter.— Courrier Beige. JAN. 31.—We learn very positively that on the 26th ,f3anuary orders were despatched from the Hague to open 'he Scheldt for the ships of all nations except those of France and England. No mention is made of Belgium.— Independant. The Beige says—" Our Government has entered into negotiations with the French Government for the regula tion of the expenses occasioned by the intervention in 1831. The Belgian Minister of War has asked the Chambers 'qtr a vote of credit, by way of advance, but it is not yet certain that France will consent to bear the expenses of the assistance which it has afforded us." FEIS. 1.-The official part of the Moniteur contains the Royal Ordinance by which the King revokes his De cree of the 23d of October, 1831, by which the city of Antwerp was declared in a state of siege. The Government received yesterday a courier, coming trom Vienna by way of Berlin, who brought despatches from Viscount Ch. Vilain XIII., Baron de Loe, and General Mer. The Handelsblad contains the notice hat the Dutch Government has sent orders to the Officer commanding his Majesty's naval force in the Scheldt to tllotv ships of all nations to enter or to leave the river, to or from Antwerp, till arrangements are made settling the terms upon which their passage will be permitted. The English, French, and Belgian fl igs are excepted from this measure, and remain till further orders subject to the iecond article of the Royal Decree of the .26th Nov., 1532. Brussels Papers, Feb. 2. GERMAN PAPERS. TURKEY. (From the Artsb . :lW Observer of Jan. 24.) CoNsTANTINOPLE, JAN. B.—Since the defeat of the Turkish airily near Koniah no important news has been received from Asia :Minor. Nothing, therefore, is known any movement in advance that Ibrahim Pacha may have made. However, on the 2d of January, a grand meeting of the Council, at which the Sultan presided in person, was held at the Palace of the Seraskier Chosrerd Pacha. The question of war and peace was discussed in it, and it was unanimously resolved that upon acceptable conditions the Fitfia should be revoked which was issued last year tgainst Mehemet Ali.—(This is the decree of the Mufti xcommunicating Mehemet and his son Ibrahim.) As the first condition, it is required that the Pacha of Egypt .hall make a submission to his lawful Sovereign ; the in vestiture of the Pachalick of Syria, which is the object of Mehemet's wishes, may be the consequence. Halil Paella, •ormerly Capitan Pacha, is commissioned to convey to he Viceroy the resolutions that have been taken. He has already embarked for Alea.andria, accompanied by the Cabinet Secretary of the Reis Effen Ii and several high functionaries of the Porte. The Russian Lieutenant-General Muravieff has sailed for Alexandria, and despatches from the Court of Austria have also been sent thither by a ship of war. It is not doubted that these steps will be powerfully seconded at Alexandria by the English Government. These applications, made directly to Mehemet Ali, have been communicated to his eon Ibrahim. Turkish Corn missieners are gone for this purpose to the Egyptian head quarters, accompanied by C o l one l D u h ame i, an officer in the suite of General Muravieff. There is, therefore, every reason to presume that an armistice will be shortly con• eluded. The news of these events has caused general satisfaction in the capital. The public tranquillity, which has not been for a moment disturbed, is consolidated by increased confidence in the future. Every body attends to his busi ness, and there is no appearance of alarm. The speedy return of the fleet, which is still anchored in the Darda nelles, was expected at Constantinople. The capital of the Ottoman empire has now the appearance of the most perfect peace. VIENNA, JAN. 22.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 88 7-16; Bank Stock, I,l47.—Allyemeine Zeitung. STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. (From the Globe.) We do not know on what authority the statements have been put forth of the intentions of the Ministers to remove what the " Movement" call the taxes on know ledge, nor do we know what the intentions of the Minis ters are; but we take the liberty to warn them, that of all the subjects which have attracted any attention, no one has been so little discussed by those who are most compe tent to give a correct opinion on its effects, and We Will briefly explain why. The gentlemen of the Movement, when this cry against I the stamp duty on newspapers was first raised, asserted that the effect of the stamp duty was to give the existih4 papers a monopoly. This assertion, the degree of truth involved in which we shall examine, has prevented most o f the persons connected with the daily papers from say ing anything on the subject, as a matter in which they would be accused of being biassed and interested. In the Times or the Herald scarcely anything has appeared, we believe, on the question, and this Paper, which has the largest circulation of the Evening Papers, has never more than incidentally alluded to the subject. This may have been culpable, and we think it was, but it is the fact; — and we believe, also, that all the proprietors of the papers we have mentioned, and of many others of the best esta• ]dished papers, have from the same motives abstained from making any representation to the Government, or the members of the Government, on the subject (though this is merely our belief), while we have no doubt, on the other hand, that the quacks and projectors have inces santly besieged the Government, as the pledge -monger' besieged candidates with their representations. We ask the Ministers, then, thus publicly, have they consulted men of experience whose success best entitles them to be heard ? We tell them now—what, we believe, has never been told them before, publicly or privately— that their former measure, rashly proposed and causelessly abandoned on the same question, involved particular papers in a large expenditure, which in a mercantile sense was utterly useless, on the faith of their announcement. So far as this paper is concerned, they might just as well for the proprietors, and better of course for the Treasury, have imposed a tax on it of 1,2001. or 1,3001. a year, as have proposed and then abandoned their first measure for the relief of newspapers. We tell them of this for the first and last time, not to complain of what is past, but to show that we have some right to call on them, fur their own sakes (for their characters cannot but suffer by futile projects), not to take any rash steps in a matter with which they have shown themselves very imperfectly att.. quainted. We tell them also, and we care not how our motives may be misconstrued in the assertion, that if there be any one measure, after the vote by ballot and universal suffrage, which is more likely than another at this moment to precipitate a revolution, we believe it to be the re moval of the stamp duties on newspapers and papers of political discussion. The stamp duty on newspapers has been called a tax on knowledge—and it is a tax on knowledge in the same sense as the excise on gin is a tax on food. Gin, no doubt, is in one sense food. Gin would keep a man alive for a time who had no other sustenance. Gin, combined with other articles of food, may be even salut try. In the same sense, political writing addressed to men who have had the means of acquiring other knowledge, excites and improves their intellect. But the great mass of the population, especially the agricultural population, have had little means of acquiring that previous knowledge which makes the violence of political writing innoxious, and under the cheap knowledge system they are to be fed with intellec tual gin, and gin alone, and we are to find as the result a composed and sober people. The last Ministry, with the best intentions, passed a measure which has established beer-houses by thousands and tens of thousands throughout the country—frequently in the places most removed fom the casual inspection of Magistrates, where the half-employed labourers of the southern counties congregate to improve their minds by converse and to spend the parish money. Into every one of these houses the removal of the stamp duties would send periodical political essays suited to the tastes of the customers. The readers, or rather listeners (for the ma jority of the people cannot read, but would listen to readers), would learn, as Cubbett has taught his disciples, how gross is the tyranny of vestries and overseers ; that an attempt to limit the allowance of the poor out of the land is a trampling on their natural rights ; and that the effects of rick burning have been visible in the improve ment of labourers. Assertions of this kind may not be injurious when addressed to the purchasers of expen sive publications ; but can sane statesmen, who look to the state of the mass of the population of a considerable part of this country (a population unfortunately left desti lute of other knowledge) become instrumental in furnish ing it with the most fiery stimulants of its discontent ? The gentlemen of the Movement say this will furnish the rich with a strong motive to instruct the poor—and of course the poor will get knowledge when there is a motive to furnish it to them—and when they are well fed and well taught they will weigh at their just value these incentives to mischief, This is true; but in the proposed plan, as in many other parts of the revolutionary commonwealth, the end forgets the beginning. The incentive to mischief is to come in the year 1833—the knowledge ten years hence. The farmers may, indeed, teach the poor their moral duties by the light of their burning stacks; but we doubt much whether the best preparatory step for filling the people gradually with solid instruction, is to plunge them at once into a fury of revolutionary intoxication. Let penny, or halfpenny, or farthing political publica tions (and they may be printed profitably, in large num bers, for the smallest coin mentioned) be spread through out the southern counties; let them be at tfully directed, as they will be, to the passions of the agricultural labour ers ; let a year or half a year of distress intervene, and it matters nut a straw what rise the Ministers intend or think of. Some persons, who, with an inconceivable ignorance (as we humbly think) of all its bearings, have set them selves up as oracles on the subject, have represented that the cheap publications now do the mischief because the stamped newspapers cannot circulate among the same classes. The whole of this supposition is a masa of errors. Toe so-called cheap publications are now only cheap by comparison, like smuggled brandy—for they are only the speculation of a few desperate persons, who live, or hope to live, by defrauding the revenue; and the circulation, exceedingly limited eveey where, and easily suppressed altogether, is confined to towns. To render the trade free from tax, would reduce the price of periodical political essays to a fourth or an eighth of the lowest present price. But a gro , ser error still is to suppose that the most pros perous newspapers would maintain their present character or comparative influence. The newspapers and stamped political writings which now flourish are those which suit the taste of the sevenpenny buyers; they represent, per haps, the taste of the middle classes ; they are enabled, by the support of these classes, to expend money for in telligence—the intelligence causes them to be read by those who probably do not always approve th e i r po li t i cs , but who become insensibly influenced by their doctrines. The political writings of the new era, to be popular, must appeal to the majority of the penny or halfpenny buyers ; t hey must appeal, not to the opinions of the middle, but to the passions of the lowest classes ; and the most pros perous, and, on the average of years, the most influential of newspapers, will be those which are the most inge nious anti artful in appealing to these passions. Th e y w ill be read by persons above the lowest , because their corn tnercial prosperity will give them many advantages; and, instead of the opinions of the middle class indirectly sway ing the lowest, the excited fury of the numerical majority will extend to many of the classes above it. To those newspapers that will follow the tile, such a willbe protitabe—the consumpti on w i ll i ncrease, be deteriorated—and in thi s mere commer cialifthe we do not believe the change w ill b e i n j ur i ous change sense, article to merely commercial journalists. B u t we cannot b ut think, that in a country already in a movement which pa t: iota must find rapid enough to enable them to guide it be. neficially, it will be a change unwarrantably hazardous. Let the tax on newspapers, or whatever other taxes are derived from printed works, be applied really to instruct the people—to relieve them from that miserable ignorance in which the special commissions showed they were plunged —gradual instruction by primary schools, and the labours of a clergy rendered more efficient—the removal of anomalies and abuses, and (let us hope) the relief of dis. tress may make the efforts of incendiaties at some future , urie harmless and not unamusing. But in the meantime th e change proposed fills with apprehension—not for this or that party—not for the existence of this or that Mi nistry, hit for the existence of any Government able to preserve property and the public peace. NEWSPAPER DUTIES. (From the Dublin Morning Register.) It is evident that the major and minor proprietors of newspapers in London have opposite feelings as to the proposed alteration in the stamp duties. Both imagine that the present imposts assist in creating a monopoly, and hence a manifest desire on one side that things should remain as they are, and on the other that they should be altered so as to give those who are comparatively strugglers the chances of what is expected to be an open and enlarged market. As far as regards - the notion that a monopoly arises from the existing taxes, we believe both majors and minors to be in error. The existing taxes are neither an impediment to a man's coming into the market, nor a dif ficulty he has to encounter in keeping it, for his payments at the Stamp-office being proportioned to his business, he will have a light burden to bear if that be insignificant, and be will have ability to bear it if the trade he consi derable. It is to an expense of production quite distinct from the demands of the Stam office, that monopoly is to be as cr ib e d ; t h at i s, t h e cost - to the London Morning Papers of literary labour, and to all the London daily papers of letter press. The Times has, in a twentyfold degree, a more secure monopoly now titan it had some 25 years ago, when its literary corps and its letter-press were not a third of their present magnitude, though since that time there has bean no alteration in the stamp duties. No one now thinks of starting a New Times or a Representative, and all the modern speculations are at the evening or weekly press. The reason obviously is, that it is by the multiplication of pens and by the broad sheet, and not by the stamp duty, that the avenue to the market is impeded, or success, when it bas been attained, rendered problems. tical. It is unfortunate, we will not say for the minors, but the press in general, that the majors entertain their pre sent notion of their interests—for closely as the public virtue of Lord Althorp approaches to the Roman standard, we must be forgiven if we express a suspicion that he would he inclined to think there is snore sense in a whisper from Printing-house-square, or Shoe-lane, than a remonstrance, however emphatic, from one of the dark nooks off the Strand. We believe some of our Dublin contemporaries are not of our opinion, as to the point of monopoly—but if there could, on reflection, be a doubt on the matter, we think it would be removed by a glance at the progress of news paper speculation in this city for some time. In almost every week a newspaper has popped in and out of existence, leaving the parties concerned unplea sant reminiscences, not as to the difficulty of settling with the folk in Beresford-place, for, unhappily for them, that was a matter of easy adjustment, and the easier as misfortune gathered round them, but as to the hardship of meeting the demands of certain other persons who have claims not pleasant to be postponed, on the evenings of Friday or Saturday. It cannot he alleged that there is a want of an open market in Dublin ; and here, at least, there is no reasonable ground upon which the individual already in possession can persuade himself that if the transactions be enlarged by the cheapening pro cess, as assuredly they would, he is in danger of encoun tering more competition than he is subject to at present. Whatever may be the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to these duties, we trust the Irish Mem bers will take care, to the utmost reach of their influence, that it be one which will repudiate the impudent and fr iudulent principle of " assimilation," as far as the jour nals of this country are concerned. We have already taken occasion to observe that newspaper taxes existed in England since the reign of Anne, though they were not known in Ireland until the 25th of George the Third. Before March, 1798, the Irish duty was only one penny, though the British duty was threepence halfpenny. When the Irish duty was at length raised, it was not suffered to exceed one half of the British duty. The late Govern ment were greatly blamed for their proposed Stamp Act, but if Lord Althorp condescended to consult the wishes of the Irish proprietors, he would find that they consider it little less injurious to their interests to lower the British standard to theirs, titan to raise theirs to the British stan dard. Does any one pretend that the price at which English newspapers can be sold in the Irish market, is a :natter of perfect indifference to the Irish pub lishers ? If there he A reasoner of that class, he should not, at least, be of the band of statesmen who main t tin that the Irish corn dealers have a " monopoly" in the British market, merely because the foreign growers are subject to a duty to which they are not liable. If the condition of the English publishers is to he bettered, we would be glad to know why that of the Irish publishers should undergo no change ? It has not been shown that the Irish press can well endure the existing burdens. In circulation, it has not, on the whole, made a progress equal to that of the English journals, while, in advertise ments, it has experienced a positive and material decline. One of the London journals asserts that it is proposed to reduce the British duty nearly 100 per cent. below its amount five and thirty years ago. To leave the Irish duty twice its amount at that period, does seem a strange mode of i mprov i ng upon t h e G ou lb urn sys t em o f d ea li n g with the Irish press ! W e regret to learn that it is no part of Lord Althorp's plan to lower the duty on advertisements, the whole of which, in the United Kingdom, does not exceed at present 1 71,000/. A great wish is expressed through society that there should be an exemption, at all events, in favour of servants' advertisements, and in general announcements regarding situations. To render a great service, both to employers and persons seeing employment by such an exemption, would not, probably, require a sacrifice of one-fifteenth of the present amount of the advertisement duty, insignificant as it is. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of CUMBERLAND entertaint , d a select party at dinner on Friday, at his residence, at Kew, after a Gay's sporting. Among the company were the Duke of WEL mucToN, the Marquises of SALISBURY, OKA/mos, and DOURO, the Earl of ROSSLYN, Lords C. WELLESLEY and BURGIIERSII, Sir R. PEEL, and Sir C. WETHERELL. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA, and their Royal Highnesses' household, attended divine service Yesterday (by the Dean of CriEsTER), at the King's Palace, at Kensington. A Cabinet Council was held at 2 o'clock yestetday afternoon, at the residence of Earl GREY, in Downing street, which was attenderi by all the Cabinet Ministers, except the Earl of CARLISLE and Lord DURHAM. The Council broke up at 6 o'clock. The Dutch Envoy, on a special mission, and Prince TALLEYRAND, had interviews last evening, with Viscount PALMERSTON, at the Foreign-office. Their Excellencies were also occupied the preceding evening for a considerable time with his Lordship. Despatches from Lord NUGENT, the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Isles, from Sir Wm. HousTouN, the Lieutenant• Governor of Gibraltar, and from Mr. WARRINGTON, Consul-General at Tripoli, were yesterday received at the Colnnial•office. The Baron de NVEssErrisunc visited Prince TALLEY RAND on Saturday. One of the Great Officers of State, the Earl of ALBE. MARLE (Master of the Horse), and the whole of the Cabi net Ministers were present, on Friday evening, at the grand Cabinet dinner, given by the Marquis of LANS DOWNE, at his residence in Berkeley-square, at which the nominated list of Sheriffs for the present year was ar ranged, preparatory to its being pricked by his MAJESTY, in Council, this day. The LORD CHANCELLOR, Viscount ALTHORP, the Duke of GRAFTON, and Viscount GODERICH, visited Earl GREY on Saturday. The Belgian Minister received despatches on Saturday, from his Government; his Excellency afterwards paid a visit to Viscount PALMERSTON. A deputation from the \Vest Indies, headed by Sir \VAL flour", had a conference with Viscount GODERICH, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. BURGE, the agent ior Jamaica, had an interview with the Noble Viscount o ❑ Saturday. Viscount ALTHORP entertained V 190001119 PALMERSTON and DUNCANNON, Lord JoirN RUSSELL, the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and E. STANLEY, Messrs. ELLICE, RICE, and C. Woon, at dinner, on Satur day evening, at his residence in Downing -street. It is reported that there are five amendments to be proposed to the Address in the House of Commons _one by Mr. O'CoNxitu., a second by Mr. Hunts, a third by Mr. Arrwoon, and two others by persons whose names we have not beard. LITERATURE. A FEW WORDS RESPECTING THE EN- FRANCHISEMENT of the JEWS. ADDRESSED TO THE NEW PARLIAMENT. BY F. H. GOLDSINTID. BENTLEY. It will, no doubt, be in the recollection of our readers, that in the year 1830 a Bill was introduced in the House of Commons, having for its object the removal of the political and social disabilities of the Jews in this country. This Bill failed ; but it may reasonably be doubted whether the measure, if brought forward again, in the Reformed Parliament, would meet with a similar disastrous result. The author of the pamphlet before us sets forth with great temper and modesty the claims of his Hebrew brethren, and shows that, although proscribed in England, they are free in every other country wherein there is a shadow of general freedom. England partakes in the honour of oppressing the people of Israel with the paternal Governments of Russia, Prussia, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal ! Surely this stain ought to be obliterated from our national character; and it is to be hoped that the time is at hand when our common justice in this particular may be equal to that manifested by France, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, the United States of America, &c. One of th e most famous and most ancient people of the earth should no longer be persecuted by laws which, as much as any other kind of despotism, disgraced the miserable, sanguinary, and ignorant dark ages. Mr. F. H. Goldsmid has, we believe, already enjoyed what we hope is but a foretaste of other concessions. He has lately been called to the English bar, and is the first Jew on whom that distinction has been conferred. MISERRIMUS.-LONDON, 1833. On a grave-stone in Worcester Cathedral, is this emphatic inscription, " Miserritnus," with neither name nor date, comment nor text. This striking inscription the author of the little volume before us has taken for his text. It is a fine subject for specu lation, and one in the hands of a master calculated to rouse all our sympathies. Who was " Miser rimus ?" When did he live—when did he die—what was t he withering, heart-breaking sorrow that induced him to record above his grave so awful an acknowledg ment of suffering? Opinions will of course vary on this subject. The young and the romantic will take it for granted that he died of unrequited "first love ;" the more worldly, that he was foiled in some darling object of civil or military ambition. For our own part, after considering the subject in all its bearings. we have come to the conclusion that he was a suitor in Chancery, and died of an interminable lawyer's bill! For what other calamity could have impressed him so forcibly with a conviction of the nothing ness—the more than nothingness—the positive, immitigable wretchedness of existence ? Had he been a lover, his heart might have been seamed and scarred for a time ; but the reign of sentiment having drawn to a close, common sense would have made all smooth and sound again. Had he been a disappointed politician, his annoyances might have been mitigated by a plunge into patriotism, or a position on the Opposi tion Bench. But the evils of Chancery were without hope or remedy. Having once got into that legal Tophet, the odds were that he would never get out again. " Miserrimus " knew and felt this; and his load of care having been increased beyond all endurance by the presentation, one morning, of an interminable attorney's bill, he felt with Cain that his " punishment was greater than be could bear," so paid the attorney's debt and the debt of nature at one and the same time, and summed up the sor rows of a Chancery suitor, in the one apt, expressive phrase " Miserrimus." The author of the present volume holds a different opinion on the subject of the miserable" Unknown." He makes him the victim of his own tiftndish tem perament. He endows him with wealth—talent— rank—youth—and beauty—but bids them all turn to poison, and minister as so many curses to him. " Miserrimus"—according to our author, who is evidently no veteran in years or judgment— started in life with a large fortune and a most in fernal temper. So gratuitously fiendish was he in this respect, that with scarcely a why or a where fore, he stuck a school-fellow in the back with a penknife, and being of course expelled, went home to his father's estates in the North, where a few years afterwards he fell in love with the sister of the lad whom he had thus aggrieved. She reci procates his feelings, but as the " course of true love never did run smooth," it so hap pens that just when " Miserrimus" is about to make an offer and discuss the nice question of set tlements and so forth, the brother, who has in the interim grown up to manhood, returns home, learns from his sister who it is she is in love with, and of course forbids her marriage. " Miserrimus" fires' up at this, and a most bloody duel is the conse quence, in which he shoots his antagonist. Un happily, just as he is quitting the field, the sister of his victim comes by; and, after much ani mated altercation, refuses to have any thing more to do with him. Frantic at such a disappointment, " Mi serrimus" flies off to Smyrna, where he embarks in trade, is successful, and at the expiration of three years returns to England, and takes up his quarters in the neighbourhood of his old flame. She, however, true to her vow, still refuses to see or hear from him ; but being bowed down by family embar rassments, and unable to forget, even though she affects to detest " Miserrimus," she hastens to put an end to her existence, after the most approved fashion, in a horse-pond. Just at this crisis "Miserrimus" comes by, rescues the drowning girl, bears her to his own house, after reading a sort of posthumous confession of her love, makes a deliberate offer (which is accepted), and then as deliberately sets to with the work of insult and torture. First, he rates her soundly for her coldness and insincerity ; and then, as she gains strength, and is enabled to endure a little more, the brute fixes the day of marriage, previously telling her, however, with singular honesty of purpose, that he intends to be the tyrant rather than the husband. A woman of any spirit would at once have declared off on hearing this, but the poor girl, whose feeling. have been wholly crushed out, makes no objection, but is led like a lamb to the slaughter. 'n it . ceremony then takes place, but by torch-light ; the church is hung with black, two coffins are placed ot , the altar, and all parties robed in the deepes , mourning. We should not omit to mention the plea sant contrivance of t he mourning -coaches, which--for " Miserrimus" has a taste for originality--are substi tuted for carriages in conveying the nuptial party to church. Well, the ceremony at an end, the bride, bride groom,and bridesmaid walk home together,and on then way, meet with an inscription which has been erect- ed by " Miserrimus" for the express purpose °I torturing his young wife to madness, and which to tha effecr, that though the sister dearly 10 ed her brother, yet she could still reconcile it to be, feelings t o marry his murderer. This fieed ish ' insult has just the effect that was to be anticipat e ",l A The bride dies of a broken heart, and " Miserrima sl 4 after surviving her fifty years, dies of ditto, a rs " orders it to be inscribed above his tomb, that the most wretched of men lies mouldering beneath it' Such is a tolerably faithful analysis of this O le work, which is of the Mandeville school, but COra' pletely out-Godwins Godwin. The h er o of the tale is one of those perfectly gratuitous monsters which the world never yet saw, and never can se e ' until human motives and human actions cease work in their present channel. When the sky fa lls and it rains larks, then, perhaps, we may hav es " Miserrimus" among us to stimulate curiosity his antics. But possibly the author conceives ti sel his hero is a miracle of originality. Alas ! he ' s welly mistaken. " Miserrimus" is nothing O r ! than Punch turned misanthropist. The freaks ° the one are just the freaks of the other—with thi s sole difference, that Punch acts the vagabond with a smile, and " Miserrimus" with a &oval"' that Punch is a frolicsome, " Miserrimus" a sent' mental scamp. Yet it is but just to say that there a s ; some redeeming points in the tale. Here A n there the author shows a keen acquaintance with the human heart, and writes with a giant's eve s e Despite its manifest absurdity, the bridal scene ig drawn with startling power, and we really much qu es ' tion whether as many will not weep as laugh o ver i s ' It is a - pity to see genius —for that the author po' sesses genius is unquestionable—thus wantonly grading its high character, and volunteering the mountebank, when it should play the high trag e , dian. But doubtless the author will do better his second attempt ; till when we bid him faressel' Meantime we may add, that the subject of "Mise r rimus" is yet unoccupied ground, for the preset' author must speedily strike his tents and mate He has shown no warrant to justify him in W s passing on such premises. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain last week were abtlol, 3 o ll and of Flour the return was very large. The trade throllSL'o the week was very dull. This morning the fresh supplie 9 `;, iv i again liberal. Our millers purchased cautiously, and ha s o only a small demand from the North, the Wheat trade ~ 0 heavy at is. to '2s. per quarter reduction, with many t e ,'i o s , parcels left unsold. Barley of fine quality maintains last _ 3 O day's prices, other sorts are !s. per quarter lower. Beans re sr very dull, and are again rather cheaper. Pease of both kinds lc heavy, and Is. per quarter lower. Oats are in plentiful sui.'ss and full ls. per quarter cheaper than on this day senn i ° There is a moderate sale for Flour at former quotations. ?awn ON BOARD OF sRi?. ....1. Wheat, Red (old) -s. -s. Beans, Small (n4w)...-- 4 ..„..1' -White (old) -s. -s. j -Red ;18182) ... 425. 465. - Tick (new).... % 3 ' o .ls , Fine 4Bs. 525. . (old) ~.. 325. 5 , , ,,, Superfine.. 535. 565. - Harrow (new) 3 0 '. 09. ----White (1832). 465. sos. Fine s2s. 545. Brank .....s. '7., lir Superfine.. 555. 60s. Oats, Feed 14, i re* -- Foreign free 40s. 625. ----- New 17 9 . ' , 2j. Bye Barley 2 2 ,. 245. New 179. al f. - Grinding 255.'275. - Potatoe 229. --,,, -- ffjs, - Malting Malt 42s. 48s. Scotch . s. PO! - Fine New 523 565, - Irish . las. 184 Pease, Grey New 3ss. 375. Flour Town (per sack) 439 os - Maple New 365. 38s. - Seconds 425• L i, - White - North Country 40s. '' --- Boilers 98s. 425. Br -- . 55. Boners 98s. 425.1 Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST 77 ..... 1t3 P ^5 ) 15 4 p b i,,D ,-,-, - al. ..' . From Whence. r. E. = • r `.. ..., -1 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 12r+. 'l` Aldborotigh 673 2174 30 7 0 / Alemouth Arundel - -- -- -9.! Boston - P t Bridgwater - A Chichester - -- -- -- -- Clay - -- __ -- e. Cowes - .... . , Dartmouth - 9?, . Colchester 925 551 1310 158 3 0 7 01 11 k 4 Harwich —. 92 5 8 .I 4 Leigh 507 416 50 250 :: 0 1 4 Maldon BlO 518 250 183 314 215 5' Exeter Grimsby — 940 --- A; Hull — 200 --•.,.. F, Ipswich 319 643 1268 40 224 1 9 v. 7 Kent 3277 693 180 256 318 47. Lyme ___ _ ..... 40 Lynn 4lO -- -- -- 117 "" 0 Newhaven Padstcw 7O 270 —•-•• / Poole 2OO -- 70 -- -- -- e Portsmouth Rye lOO -- -- -- -- --- 0 Southampton - < Southwold Stockton — 155 45 --- / Wells 7 150 -- -- -- ." 9 1 Weymouth - /,, Wisboach 1422 708 80 -- I , ' Woodbridge 365 1288 53 3 5 Id', Yarmouth ...... 12_0-1:3 —7: 119.5°°41:2:173 1 35 -. 655 I• ; " *".'4' 11 .1 ;4 Inverness Aberdeen,aneuynrnewa, riineDundee ek ............ .. 266_7012 Leith 2 3 105 ) - - IF' Ift 1 Kt. 11540 13331 8605 14951 .72594 :15 30 ' /, Belfast Clare — 1558 -- Cork Dublin Galway lOO -- -- 2295 -- --" ' 3 Limerick - -- '11261 -- -- / Londonderry - I Newry — 1240 -- 1 Sligo — 579 --0, Waterford 65 1770 --- ' Westport 266 569 --- / Wexford — 763 --- I Youghall lO3 2775 --- FOREIGN. / Stege __ _ ,240 _ ......_ _ 1 14/ Total AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER RINDS OF rui.. sl. i --•-. - ,240 1710 rU1,52 AGGREGATE Rye, o —Tares, QUAN' al - ad. I SMITHFIEL This day's supply of each kin( trade, owing to advanced price mantled, was very dull througl and Veal at a depression, of full Pork, at fully Friday's quotatic PRICES PER STONE OF 8L S. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime latgeOxen 4 0 4 2 Prime Scots, &C 4 4 4 6 Inferior Sheep. 4 2 10 1 Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8 SouthdownWethers 410 5 2 SUPPLY, Al PER Cl Beasts. Sheep. I 2,242 14,630 it) MARKET. id of st oc k was li m it e d hu t c es being generally and s :bout, with Beef at an a.' 1 28. per stone ; with Matto!, ons. .11S. TO SINK TILE Orr." S. ri• I° o Large Lambs 0 0 Prime small ditto 0 4 : Large coarse Calves 3 8 Prime small ditto 5 0 Large Hoga 3 0 4 Small Porkers 4 e t) Suckling Calves I2s. tow"? Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s• ',ERIC'S STATEMENT. I Calves. ri . f i c #o . e up the 9l P St. Alban's road ; 11 , ` ds ; about 200 (i nc l u ding ~ districts ; about 900 from lgeshire ; about 50 frolo,,Y alder from the marsh' Aboiit 350 of . the beasts cam: 400 up the other northern road from the western and midland folk, Suffblk, Essex, and Cambr and Sussex ; and most of the re ,n the neighbourhood of Londoi NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARK S At per stone by the Carcass. cLi g i , 6. d. to s. 4. ' 2 1 3' seet, inferior ........2 02 2 Mutton, inferior 4 , - middling ...... 2 2 2 6 middling.. 2 6 - prime larg e ... 2103 2 I prime - prime sm a ll ... 3 4 3 8 Pork, large 4 Veal ........ ........... 3 4 5 0 -small Lord BROUGHAM, it is said, prOpOS es t constitute a Chi e f J ust i ce i n E qu i ty , w i t h a 93 ' ,°f 1 7,0001., on w h om t h e present l a b ours o f t h e Gi h ' s - 1 Court will devolve; retaining the o ffi ce of Lord tar, with a sa l ary of 10 , 0001. per annum , an d s it iso , sent patr onage . Th e d ut i es of t h e Chancellor W' ° 1 be only three-fold—as Cabinet Minister, Judge of AP and Speaker of the House of Lords. AP AND NEWSPAPER FOR THE rf NAVY.-The First Number of this new and * f e il l , sirable publication is to appear on Saturday next, p r ' f l/ d under the title of " THE NAVAL AND Mosr. o o zErrc." The project is the result of a convict'°l, etrertained by several distinguished o ffi cers of b°l o , vices, of the great want of such a medium of ento"4 l '; that ; it will therefore come out under the highest gu pf.. and we understand that many of the c,ontribuO r . , ,, monthly " United Service Journal" will lend di e ' . the Weekly Paper. We understand that a public meet if in? petition for the abolition of colonial sla.. , ry, is ' nil plation. We hope the tables of both H 'uses of P3l. will be loaded with petitions.—Haliftx Express' O a Nat urday, THE NA WE EKLY thr r l