The Sun. — London, England, 1830-03-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 27. ' The . Hon.' GEORGE WELD CECIL FORESTER took the oaths and his seat for the borough of Wenlock. Mr. Wontner, the keeper of Newgate, presented an ac count of the number of persons who had been committed •to that- prison by the Commissioners of Bankruots, 'from 1825 to the present time, specifying the name. of th e Commissioners who had signed the warrants. The SPEAKER acquainted the House that he had caused a catalogue of books in the library to be prep ,re.l for the use of the Members. The Right Hon. Gentleman • also informed the Nouse that, in conformity with the re commendation of the Committee on Parliamentary Papers, 'Which sat in 1825, he had caused* a classification of printed 'reports, &c., together with proper tables, to be prepared. On the motion. of the LORD ADVOCATE, both were 'ordered to be printed. Sir A. GRANT brought up the report of the Consoli dated Fund Bill. The amendments were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The House then adjourned. ?RICKS OF STOCFS THIS Bank Stock .... ........... ..219 34 : 3 per Cent. Red. 9 2 1,i 92 ,‘ 3 per Cent. Cons. 91 3Y5% N pet Cent uitto Red. 99 3; , 1 0034 ,tper iiittoclB26 os%Nent. 1 Ann. . Bank L. Ann l9 9-16 % , ,4 • Ditto 30 years - but° 30 years India Stock 248 49 47 : Ditto Bonds 77 '76 prn. I --___ DAT ♦T ONE o'cLocx. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 76 77 pm. Ditto lid. 76 77 pm. Ditto .5012 d. 76 77 pm. Ditto 76 77 pm. Ditt o 6111411 -1. 76 77 pm. Ditto lid. 76 77 pm. Bank for Account India for Account - Cons. for April lei 915i% Fi PRIORS OF IRISH STOOI Bank Stock 250 Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 98%1 Ditto Nevi 4 Per Cent 1014 41 , 7 • Gov. Deb. 3% per cent 9 1 ,,t 110 1a1 Canal Stocit 46 Grand Canal Stock 21% ' - 94' Deb. .. 4 per cent - ,„Ballast, Office Deb. 4 p. c ~----- CS, DUBLIN, FEB 26. St. Patrick lnsur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto I Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings HIGH WATER ♦T LONDON BRIDGE TO-3IORROW. `akraing' 44 minutes after 7. I Evening...l6 minutes after 8. REVIVAL OF HUNGERFORD MARKET. VOTICE is hereby given, that a GENE RAL 1 - MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held 'at the Crown and Anchor, Strand, on THURSDAY nett,, at Two o'clock precisely, to ELECT. a COM MITTEE for carrying forward the Business of the Com- . Shares may be taken on payment of a Deposit of 21., at Messrs. Bouverie's, 11, Haymarket ; Messrs. Ch ild's, Temple• bar ; Messrs. Vexes, Lombard street.; and the Model may be seen and Prospectuses bad at the Office, Lancaiter-court, Strand, near St. Martin's Church. J. BRITTON, Hon. Secretary. „el, • • . 1 4 *tin • LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1830. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office this day, at three o'clock.' Despatches were received at the Foreign. Office this morning from our Ambassadors al Paris, -Brussels, and the Brazils. We understand that the Excise-office has sent itutul circulars to the confectioners, warning them not to sell cherry-brandy. This is at least frank, for the informers are immediately to be let loose upon all parties who may contravene the stiotice. We should be glad to learn bow much . the revenue is benefited by these vexatious visi tations ? The following are extracts from:Brazil Papers of the-24th December : . (From the Diario Flunziaense.) - RIO . DR lANRIRO, DEC. 21. The eleventh and twelfth bulletins of his Majesty's heabh state, that the fever in c id en t on t h e operation :which. he had undergone having whony cea.ed, and the part en which the operation was performed being in the - best way of recovery, it was hoped that no farther bul letins would be necessary. I . On the 19th, his Majesty wag visited by leis Royal High ,neas the Prince of Leuchtenburgh, who dined with his Most Faithful Majesty. The Emperor invited the Prince to visit him every other day, and begged him to take the greatest care of his own health. His Royal Highness :accordingly repeated his visit on the 21st. Ditc. 24.—His Majesty the Emperor, by a Decree of the 9th inst., has been pleased to appoint the Desembarga dor Joaquin Jose Pinheito de Vast:toncellos to be President of the province of Pernambuco. New York Papers have been received this morning at the North and South American Cdfrei-house to the sth of February, by the london line packet Colombia, Capt. DELANO, arriied at Portsmouth. The following extracts 1. His Ma ad sailed on the - Admiral is Majesty's s FeHowes, E,of which Isjesty'tship .C. 8., was and crew of ler Michael he entrance was bilged. is Majesty's , 411 at COW" 10), Coin station ; his Hutcheson, :sme home. litical ne ws• those above on Thurs- aptain Sir lay morning Ith inst. at d arrived in thickness of he would in uts brought 'ommanding heir daugh tain Sweet r the 94th all was well upwards of ely paid off. iam Paget, Esq. to the Idication of to be fitted In, accord lorth Arne ! periods of tvve and the be Captain Pylades), xi to her. c. B. was team-vessel, y the Com ' frigate, 11 3 Sled at a in striking• ading stores e will take ideate, who and Amity ,eir cargoes• days, with n take •the Amphitrite Plymouth le, Ganges, id Edward k of First of Royal Bander, •re- cannon, has In Monday IA on the !ontinencia, he Thoinas Sailed the iy, the In e Lavinia. from. the with casks, 1, branded !aged casks, land, from the Wight. lauded.' . _, son, sailed Tuesday, :/ndaunted, ruise in the rer a space cal vessels, I's on the Talavera, dered to be is also id, 42, Las will go out ridened 12 ary nt, Druid, [erai4uatei T.M. sloop in. Coin- Dispatch, it-Surgeon 'annuation• coke dock wich yard, appointe I ;eon to the teket, vice 'd3 (14.11)' p Mar f ulz led at II"' that ship. irliament urigivating 3(1 corner; as `f uai who knuot 9 oeutnent is ly to prove t once, and as in other v incessant +, the more , e o?en Lind are important : (From the New York Mereantik Advertiser, of Feb. 4.) IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Office of the Bee, New Orleans, Jan. 14. " We have just been informed by the schooner Frances, from Tampico, that President Guerrero was obliged to leave, Mexieo on account of th e disturbance's which had occni.red for the change of Government." In addition to the above, the Baitimore American coatAins the following extract of a letter, dated TAMPICO, JAN. 2. 1830. An exp resse d arrived ve.terday from the city of Mexico, which brought the foll ow i ng statement, under date of the 23d ult.—Last night a yrito was giren in this city in favour of Busitamente's plan, which has proved most decidedly successful. The Government was obliged to surrender the palace at about six o'clock this morning, and is completely overthrown. A c ommission, consisting of three persons, Louis Quintana, Lucas Aleman, and Velez, are named to exercise the executive power until the arrival of Busta mente from Puebla. The Ministers will be immediately named, but it is not yet known who they will be. The revolution was effected without any of the violent excesses 'abut year; some attempts at a saque were made by the LePeroa, but *ere i mmediately prevented by the good be hati°" ftf the .fr acTe. This morning the capital is in perfect tranquillity and good order. The Presid ent rero, with ' Guer le 4 oody of troops (2,000 men) at some distance, " 41 Will, we `siippose, be compelled to retire towards the Coast, as no hopes floe remain for his party. Santa Anna bee gone to Vera Crux, and assumed the command of the troops there. The views and intentions of this chief do no t apptir- to be Well understood, but i t is generally b e li eve d that th ey are in favour of Bnstamente. '. The above account so far as respects Gen. Santa Anna, it tvi . ll be re membered, is not so late as we have had from very Cruz. Letters from st ated that h e h ad that place to the 21st Dee., marched thence en th e 19 t h, w i t h a ll en d r the to at that p o i nt, to act against Gen. Bustarnente, woul ops d also take with him such of the troops at Jalapa ;ias declined t o act with the revolutionists. It was then rriefividtieentittly belie ve d , t h at Santa Anna, with the aid of the trop Gu errero (who h a d l e f t the Capital with the and het that P l ace ) would be able to put down Bustainente eat Centralists, is a short time. The news of Santa 4Plie'l mats article, or h to V era C ruz, as stated in the Baltimo re betty hot Piot not ha ve reac h ed Mexico in the internal eee the 19th and 2311 DecVn)er‘ What effect the occurrence at City of Mexico will have on the revolu- tiou, is yet t u be be learnt we confess however that this movement r ' i- ' sv our of the revolutionists, which appears to have been volunary, is one that we did not expect. (Front the Cotreapondent of the New York Daily Advertiser.) Ift cha nge RIO DE JANZIRO f DEC. 9. to , th Of Miuiatry took place a few days ago, much the 01: Idvaiscomfiture of the Portuguese party, of whom le . * i n 3 oenosed, and, whose councils have been of tat: ?II to the Country. A lot b them was in agi 33:_r 0 declare then mperor absolute, ; but the - Marquis EmperorZl:ateeh:sau me th interf e rin g , 1 rem onstrating ere ant watlinipuort tuor. in sole- in upon the impropriety, as well as danger, InPt , g "Y thing- of the kind, an immediate stop All the Miniaters wete dismissed, except , ELnpi . B the. Treasury, who is now Minister of the Othetrr:lr is in and 4 the Treastny for a s ior •• All of the Brazilian party. I Mtuctihmeis owing to the new Empress, who. is a warm friend of Brazil. She is much liked, is said to be a woman of ta lents, and to have great influence over the Emperor. This is considered a death-blow to the Portuguese interest; and particularly so if Martin Franci.co should accept, the Treasury Department, which, it is said, has been offered him. All speak in high terms of kis patriotism, financial and business talents; under his guidance a great change would take place for the better, nothing but good manage ment being required to restore the currency in a few years to its original value. Brussels Papers of Saturday last have been received this morning, from which we make the following extracts : BRUSSELS, FE8..24. The Pilot Board is already making preparations to send down the river a boat to examine the shoals, which will doubtless be found to Lave shifted, from the operations of the ice; buoys will be placed, and if the weather remains as it is, we may hope to see our rich fleet of merchantrnt n amounting to between SO and 100 sail, arrive in six or eight days. P. S.—The Pilot-boat is to go to Flushing this even ing (the 23(1). It is therefore possible that the ships may arrive on Ft iday or Saturday. (From the Journal dAnvers.) We learn from the Hague, that the sections of the Second Chamber of the States-General have been latterly engaged in discussing the answers of the Government to their observations on the Code de procedure Crintinelle. It is said that the new awl reiterated observations of the Sections have been transmitted to the Government. (From Le Beige.) FF.B. 25.—Up to Monday last the prisoners in the Petits Carmes were interrogated daily at great length, for the purpose, if we may believe some persons who are well in fiirrned, of discovering who it was that drew. up the pro ject of a subscription for the Belgic rent, and whence it was sent to the Journals, so that they might publish this project simultaneously. We are assured that nothing was discovered on the subject. The rigours of their soli tary confinement are in some measure relayed ; each of the prisoners may see every day one of the members of his family, in presence of M. - Fontenas. FEB. 26.—The improvements in the King's Palace, which were suspended in 1828, on account of the residence of the Court at Brussels, will be immediately resumed. We learn that the merchants of Rotterdam, who deal in coffee, will present a petition to the King, requesting him '.o defer the project of law for laying an additional duty on coeffe. ST. PETERSETJEGIi, FEB. 11. The Commercial Journal of St. Petersburgh, combats the assertion of another Journal of this city, which has been copied by several foreign Papers, that if the tariff of 1819, the regulations of which were very moderate, had remained in force, the Russian Government would have had sufficient resources to do without the Dutch loan, by which the interest would have been saved, and the com plaints made abroad prevented. The Commercial Jour nal asserts, that in consequence of that tariff, the ris ing manufacturers are ruined, and that Russia was on the point of again becoming a merely agricultural state, without eiviliaation, without consumers, without internal industry, and without capital ; that indeed the receipts of Customs bud greatly increased during two years, but only in consequence of the immense importation of articles of foreign manufacture, and that soon after there was no sale whatever for them, the inevitable consequence of the over stocking of the market, which leads to certain ruin. The Journal affirms that public opinion, stigmatising the tariff as a national calamity, its abolition was necessary, and this accordingly put an end to all complaints. The Journalist concludes by owning that the prohibitory system must be gradually modified. We have received this morning the Allge. meine Zeitung to the 23d February, their con. tents are uninteresting. VIENNA, FEB. 18.—Meta11iques, 193-1, ; Four per Cents. 973 ; Bank Shares, 1320. It is impossible to read the accounts from the agricultural and manufacturing districts without being convinced of the deep distress that per vades nearly the whole of the population. While, however, we admit and sincerely deplore its ex istence, we must warn the public not to be led astray by the delusion running through nearly the whole of the petitions that are about to be pre sented to Parliament, viz., that the remedy is to be found either in the alteration of our commer cial policy, or in a return to an inconvertible paper currency ; let any man read the October number of the Edinburgh Review, he will there see irrefragable proofs of the poverty and misery into which France is plunged from an adherence to what is called the Prohibitory System ; her commercial prosperity has been literally blasted by her mistaken views of political economy. We are persuaded that no sensible man can read the article we have alluded to, without being satisfie I that a return to our old system of commercial policy would be ruinous, even if it were practicable With regard to the other point, the vexata questio of the currency, we have always been of opinion that Mr. PEEL'S Bill of 1819 ought never to have been passed, without a very large reduction of the national burthens, the existence of which was the only apology for the Bank Re striction Bill ; we think it is not even now too late by a rigid economy in every department of the State, or by a tax which shall take the burthen from the poor man and place it upon the shoulders of the rich, to accomplish what we then left un done. But to repeal the Bill of 1819, in other words to relieve our embarrassments by an issue of fictitious paper money, would be the maddest scheme that Government could devise ; it would produce a rise of prices, and for a time great activity in trade ; but afterwards, as sure as fire burns, the system would recoil upon us, as it has done on all former occasions, and we should soon sink in a state of greater exhaustion than ever. It is therefore with great satisfac tion that we observe Mr. PEEL and the Duke of WELLINGTON to have spoken out boldly upon these two subjects, for it is of the first impor tance to undeceive the public as to the remedies for our distress. There is, however, a branch of the subject relating to the currency, upon which, from the commencement, we have always expressed some doubt. We allude to the Bill of 1826, for the Suppression of the Small Notes, and we confess, looking attentively at all that has been said and written on the subject, that the advocates for this measure have never made out a case for legislation. * It appears to us •that a Govern ment having once fixed upon a standard, and compelled all people to conform to it, it has afterwards no right to dictate to individuals in what denomination they shall lend their credit ; and that an Act of Parliament to prevent people from parting with the produce of their labour for an old hat, or an old shoe, or for pieces of * See Quarterly Review of January, also Mr. Horace Herbert's pamphlet. tin would ba - just as consistent as an Act to re strain them from taking a one pound note, if they arc fools enough to do so. So long as the old shoes, the old hat, the pieces of tin and the paper pound note are not recognized by the law as a discharge of a debt, so long should Government abstain from interfering. This is a difficulty which we confess we never can get over, for if it be right to legislate and extinguish these notes, the same principles of legislation point to the extinguishing of bills of exchange, and of all paper credit whatsoever. To discuss this question in all its bearings would lead us into a wide sea of controversy : we will only repeat, that the advocates of the Small Note Bill have not' in our opinion made out their case, and that a wise Government will never meddle with any description of paper credit that is by law convertible at its appointed time in the coin of the realm ; we acknowledge, that the liberty, of issuing paper is frequently abused, but that is the affair of the silly people who take the paper, and cannot under any circumstances,be come a case for legislative interference, unless Parliament, in addition to its heavy duties, pro poses to take upon itself the office of a nurse, and. to instruct its children in the management of their domestic affair. In conclusion, we re peat, compel all paper credit to conform to the standard—and for the rest, laissez faire; a paper currency thus regulated, carries its remedy along with its disease. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, FEB. 27.—Wind W.S.W.- - Arrived the Eliza, Bayley, from Sierra Leone; the Claude, from Demerara. Arrived from London the Apollo, Randall, for Bet bice ; the Lucretia, Whillis, for Demerara; the Royal Sovereign, Honey, for Jamaica; the finny Davidson, Willis, for Jamaica; the Alexander, Smith, for Trinidad; and the Caledonian, for Tobago. FEB. 28.—Wind W.N.W.—Several of the outward bound have sailed, but most of them have returned. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27 and 28.—Wind W.S.W. and N.W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Heron, from Lima, Valparaiso, &c. with specia to the amount of one million of dollars; and the Flora, Consett, from Fernando Po.— Off Port, the Columbia, Rustor, from New York. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. NEW ORLE•NC, JAN. 16.—A destructive fire took place in the Pressing Stare in this town, which consumed 4,944 bales of cotton. EARTHQUAKE IN CHlLL—Accounts from Valparaiso, of the 26th September, state that about two, p.m., there was experienced a heavy shock of an earthquake —very few houses escaped injury. Lima, SEPT. 15:—The market here is now in a very miserable state owing to the scarcity of money, and the mines are completely neglected, the country being in an unsettled state. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. 5 From Whence. . 'F' 'F. F l ' 1,5, I 4 ' : 4 '.. -.....- -.. ........ ..- ... —..- ... •-•-... - Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. A ldborough 536 2961 25 57 118 140 Boston Bridlington . 340 Chichester — 10 CO Clay SO 1230 Colchester I'g ' 507 2114 2-4. 195 101 N A r Leigh 7l2' 190 • 101 464 59 24 44 Maldon . 254 '7l 57 11 370 Gai nsboroug h 678 (it MIAs) , 5O 405 '705 Hull — 6:'o '750 10 680 le n w t i c b 417 808 1035 190 280 34 639 1084 768 274 427 7144 277 Lynn — 478 223 290 Newport Poole Scarborough Southampton Southwold Stockton — --.— 57 50 191 Wells 365 755 752 Wisbeach — 500 101 514 Woodbridge 640 1664 59 21 100 4139 Yarmouth ...... Aberdeen — 2486 17 Banff' — 3670 100 iserwick IJundee ' 250 1994 2 h. verness Leith Montrose — 710 I 6457 14118 6695 18217 2216 535 8438 I usu. Ilallina — "127 Dublin Dundalk — 1000 Londonderry Newry — 735 Sligo — • 940 Waterford — 1000 _ Youghall — 1850 40 FOREIGN. Coastways 628 -,. ———— Total 7085 14478 6595 28659 2216 835 8178 AGaRraTE ye, 10—Tares, QUAN! 1112-] r TIT Y I •Linsee astard, F OTH 1, C-7-I ER RI? Etapesee ads, 19. IDS OF (1, ! PULS .Brank, ;E. ,18-- THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the same price they left off on Saturday, 91i for the Account, but at present the market is rather looking down, and Consols may be quoted at 91f, and for Money 91i A Brazil Mail has arrived, brought by a transport; she brings one million of dollars for merchants' account; she left about eight days later than the last accounts. The French Mail is not as yet arrived, consequently we have no political information as yet to communicate. The Foreign Market is void at present of interest, and most of the prices the same as on Saturday. ENGLISH Bank Stock, 218} 191 India Stock, 247 9 3 per Cent. Gins. 911 Do. for Account, 91i Ditto Reduced, 92:1 I NDS. Si per Cent. 100 New 4 per Cent., 1021 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 India Bonds. 76 77 Exchequer Bills, 76 77 HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have remained steady the whole of the morning, and the extreme fluctuation has been from 91i to 91i buyers for the Account, and at the latter price they re-- main at present, for Money 91i No speculations of 'great importance have taken place. The Marquis Palmella with two secretaries set off on Saturday for Terceira : we understand that Government is aware of his departure. The armistice is daily expected from Lisbon. Ihe accounts from the Brazils this morning are favour able; all the Portuguese have been turned out of office there, and no armaments are preparing in the ports. The new Empress is pregnant. Exchsnge on London 244. In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds have been the fa vourite speculation this morning; they got up about 21 per cent., and were done at 44. TW 0 O' CL 0 CIC. The Montreal Papers received at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 28th Jan. contain the opening of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada, with the speech of his Excellency, in which he says to the House of Assembly—" I have called you together at a time which I believe to be ~ 3 st suited to your private conve nience and public serlf:._,•, 7 and it affords me pleasure to con gratulate you on the pfosperous state of, the affairs of the Province. Commerce has been carried on more exten sively during the past year; the Provincial Revenue has also increased, and arrangements have been ms i de for:the security of the public monies." Accounts from Washington state, that in the Senate a Bill was reported modifying the duties on some articles, and repealing the duties on others. The Savannah Paper of the 16th Jan. states, fi our the Havannah, that General Llorente, Commander of the Se cond Expedition, who arrived there some time ago, is to be followed by 8,000 men from Spain, and it was intended to raise in the island 4,000 more troops. A number of troops have already arrived from Spain, in small bodies, on board merchant ships, to prevent observation. Accounts from Maracaibo, of the 23d December, state that trade there was at a. complete stand, in consequence of the Act passed in Caraccas on the 26th Nov., disavow ing the authority of I3Oliva.. THREE O' CLOCK. Consols for Account, FOUR O'CLOCK.-CLOSING PRICES. Consols 911 Danish 74i Do. for Ac. 91i Greek, 1825 43,} Brazilian Bonds 681 Mexican, 1E25 26 Buenos Ayres Peruvian 19 Chilian Do. 28 Russian 108 Columbian, 1824. Spanish 13 Nothing of any public interest took place in any of the Law Courts this day up to the time of our go ing to pres.._ EAST INDIA COMPANY'S TEA SALE.— (Tnis DAY.)—This morning the East India Company's quarterly sale of Teas commenced at the India-house, and was fully attended. The declaration consists of 7,800,000 pounds of Tea, being the same quantity as that offered at the last sale. Of the several descriptions of Tea, the following are the quantities to be offered :—Of Bohea, 1,200,000 lbs. ; of Congou, Campoi, Pekoe, and Sou chong, 5,200,000 lbs. ; of Twankay and Hyson Skin, 1,500,000 lbs. ; and of Hyson, 250,800 lLs. The Bohr:is were on sale, and are selling briskly, a shade higher than the quotations realized at the last sale. The whole of the declaration will not be got through until the middle of next week. In the list of those who paired off on Lord JOHN RussEr.t.'s motion, the name of Colonel ClttrnEN is insetted in the place of that of the Hon. Colonel ANsoN, who paired off with Mr. ARKWRIG HT. We understand that• the forthcoming Poem, " The Reproof of Brutus," has been delayed publication for a few days, in consequence of an eminent house with drawing their name from the title-page, from certain bold opinions, unreservedly expressed, which the Author, from conscientious motives, could not consent to cancel. On the division on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion, Sir JOAN NEWPORT and Mr. PORTMAN paired off for, and Mr. MANNING, and Mr. MACQUEEN against, the motion ; Lord HENRY and Lord W. TUYNN E were not in the House, and their names were inserted by mistake in the majority. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. tog. d. s. el tos. d. Beet 2 2 3 4 Veal 30 5 0 Mutton 2 4 3 8 Pork 30 4 4 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MARKET—Feb. 27. We had a moderate supply of Wheat from the farmers to-day, and the weather having become favourable there was a demand for seed ; this made the sales brisk at the commencement of the market at an advance of ls. to 2s. per quarter on the best samples, but it finished heavily at about last week's prices. The Oat trade was brisk, and the who!e was readily taken eff at an advance of ls. per quarter. Barley has been rather flat (luting, the last few days, except for the very finest qualities. Malt glow sale. White Pease, if breakers, inquired after. Sound heavy Rye in fair demand. Beans and Flour as our last. Wheat New. o.d. , Northumberland ',3s. Ws. ...... —B. —a.' ---.-- , Norfolk and Sitffblk 575. 61!s. --- Berwick and Scotch 565. 58s. ---- Dant tag Rye, Norfolk and Suffola 31s. 395. --- Foreign —8 —I. 33s. 38s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sulfolk 12s. 31s. --- Grinding and Feeding. "6s. 295. Malt, Norfolk and Suflblk —a. —s. s2s 58s. Beans, Small -----; Tick 34s. 365. Pease,' White • —s. —s. . --- Gray .325. 34. Oats, No rthumberland, l'otatoe 23a. 275. ' Feed .............16s 20s. ---- Foreign Flour, Fine (per sack) —s —s. WATERFORD ELECTION.—The Dublin mail Will start in ten minutes, and up to Thursday evening we have been enabled to ascertain the accurate state of the poll. The BERESFORD party allege that they have a majority of 84; and the friends of the other candidate assert that their opponent is not more than 40 a head. It is quite certain, however, that the result of this day's poll gives Lord GEORGE BERESFORD an increased majority. This city is in a state of great excitement : but there is no serious rioting. " We have just been informed by a friend of the BERESVOIiD party, that the majority of Lord GEORGE is not More tliait;so. Both parties are still sanguine of success. Dublin Morning Register, Saturday. In our last Paper we made some observations on the order which Mr. ASTELL, one of the East India Company'S Directors, mentioned in the House of Com mons as having been given, on the application of the Rev. Mr. BE-kLD, Vicar of Birsial, in this neighbourhood, " to the great relief," as the worthy Director was pleased to express it, "of the suffering manufacturers." Since that time vie have ascertained the amount and the conditions of this vaunted order, and find that it is for 1,000 pieces of woollens, to be delivered in July, and paid for in Oc tober next.—Leeds Mercury. _BA ;.I , TSLEY.—As soon as the present incle ment weather enables the bleachers to work, the trade of this town expeCted to improve considerably, as there are orders on hand. In some instances, indeed, masters have begun to set on additional hands, but the wages are low, and those of bleachers have been lately reduced several shillings a week.—Manchester Advertiser. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOll FEBRUARY. —The frost being succeeded by a general thaw in the first week of the current month, agricultural operations, so long suspended, were universally resumed ; and the lands have since worked into a proper state for the reception of the earliest seed process, namely, for I eans, peas, and oats. Upon the forwardest lands, these seeds are already in the ground ; on others, much ploughing remaining un done, those crops will neces-arily be backward. Durii g the month of January, scarcely a plough was stirring, until the two or three last days, and then in very few places. The wheats, winter tares, clovers, awl turnips, have been variously affected by the frost. Upon warm and sheltered soils, there seems little cause of complaint, par ticularly of the early sown wheats, great part of which ex hibit a healthy appearance; but on lands of a less fortu nate description, and where the cover and protection of snow came too late, the corn, its seeds just bursting out to vegetation, and grasses, are lamentably cut up, and the re maining turnips, of a very poor crop, clung and withered, and rendered of very little use as cattle food. The naked frost has yet been of the greatest service in clearing the land of slug and grub, of which two mild winters hadoc casioned a multi tu di nous increase.--Monthly Mogaz,ne• THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN-EXCHANGE. The supplies of most kinds of Grain last week wen considerable, with n good return of Flour. This 'nor:l ing the►e is but little Wheat fresh up, and of other Grain moderate quantities. The best parcels of Wheat have maintained the terms of this day se'nuight, other quali tks are dull, and rather lower. Ba , ley continues unal tered in 'value. Beans, thcuol► slow in sale, maintain their former quotations. Boiling Pease are rather dearer. Grey Pease, if dry, find sale at the terms of this day se'nnight. Oats meet a very slack trade to-day, and the prices of last week are hardly supported. The top price of Flour remains unaltered, and the sale less lively than of late. New Spring Tares for seed sell heavily at 58. 6 , ' to 6s. 6d. per bushel. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) ..... —s. —s. Beans, Small (nt ----White (old).. —s. —s. Red (1829) ... 465. 50s. Tick (new Fine Sic 60s Superfine.. 645. 68s. Harrow (ii --White (1829). 50s. 605.. (ol Fine 655. 725. Superfine 74.5. 78s. Foreign free 509. 925. 30s. .34:. 21s. 2?.. 288. 30s. 31e. 345. 455. 565. —s. 40s. 455. ) Y7s 3('l. I 3ss. 375. lew) 335. 1d) i 9. 40s. 225. 245. 18s. 238. Brank Oats, Feed New Rye Barley Fine -- Superfine Malt Poland New., --- Potatne ----- New 20s. 21s. —s. —B. 255. 30s. 14s 18s 2fis. ick) 553 60s. 455. 528. dry 445. 525. 1 Is. 12s. -Fine Pease, Grey -- Maple ----- White -- Boilers , 58s 62s 28s 30s 30s. 355. 32s 36g. 38s. 435. -- Scotch old ----- Irish 1 Flour Town (per sa, Seconds North Coun Bran SMITHFIELD MARKET. In our market of to-day, which was but moderately supplied throughout, each kind of meat met with an un commonly dull sale, Veal at a depression of from 4d. to 6d. ; Pork 2d. to 4.1. per stone; Beef and Mutton at barely Thursday's prices. At seven o'clock this morning scarcely a butcher was to be seen in attendance, and from that hour to nine o'clock, which is generally the most busy part of the day, but comparatively little business was transacted. The higher quotations were obtained in very few instances. - PRICES PER, STONE OF BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Prime Scots, &c 3 8 4 0 Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 6 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4, Coarse-woolled ditto 3 10 4 2 SouthdownWethers 4 2 4 (I, s. d. to s. d. Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Large coarse (7alves 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto 510 5 2 Large Hogs 3 0 3 4 small Porkers 4 0 4 4 Suckling Calves Its to32s. each. Quarter old Pigs I Is to 18s. each. • SUPPLY, AS PER CLERIC ' S STATEMENT. . Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs. 2,142 I 17,400 I 120 140 About 440 of the beasts came up the different North Roads; about 200 from the western and midland districts ; about 1200 from Norfolk, Suflblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 70 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c., in the neighbourhood of London. COURT CIRCULAR. Despatches were sent off by a Messenger from the Co. '-ni..l office on Saturday evening, for Sir Faanaaicw A n. 4 at, the Lord High Commission, r of the lonian Islands, Islands. Tha Alesseoger took also despatches from the Foreign-office, for Mr. DAWKINS, our resident in Greece. Despatches were sent off from tl,e Foreign-office on Friday night, by a King's Messenger, for Sir ROBERT GORDON, our Ambassador at Constantinople ;. and also for Lord COWLEY, our Ambassador at Vienna. A Meeting of the Commissioners for the r.duction of the National Debt was held on Saturday at the Treasury. The Governor and the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, at tended the Meeting. The Earl of ABERDEEN, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex entNtlEß, and Lord Rou.r., had interviews with the Duke of WELLINGTON on Saturday at the Treasury. The Duke of WELLINGTON gave a (rand dinner o n Saturday evening at Apsley-House t o th e Earl of Ettuot., Lord BEXLEY, Mr. G. BANKES, Mr. HORACE Twist, and a party of Noblemen and Gentlemen. The Lords of his MAJESTY'S moat Thinourable Privy Council held a Meeting at the Council Chamber on Satur day morning; those present were the Master of the Rolls, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the Vice Presi dent of the Board of Trade, and the Secretary to the Ad miralty. A cross appeal' " FaANKLAND v. M'GUSTY," and " MiGusTY v. FRANKLAND," in which Mr. Serjeant STEVENS spoke at considerable length, was adjourned at half-past four o'clock. Mr. GREVILLE attended their Lordships as Clerk to the Council. Earl BATHURST entertained a large party to dinner on Saturday, at his residence in Downing street. Prince LEOPOLD came to town on Saturday from his residence at Claremont. His Royal Highness dined with the Duchess of KENT, at her apartments in tie King's Palace, Kensington. The Prince returned to Claremont yesterday afternoon. The Earl of ABERDEEN left town yesterday morning in his carriage and four, to attend the KING at his Palace at Windsor. The Duke of WELLINGTON left town yesterday, for his seat at Strathfieldsay, Hants. Mr. Secretary PEEL gave a grand dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in 'Privy-gardens ; among the company invited were Viscount STOPYORD, Viscount Gax- LIES, Viscount CORRY, Viscount EASTNOR, Sir G. Nu- GENT, Sir J. YORKE, Sir T. LETHBRIDGE, Sir W. PRINGLE, sir T. FREMANTLE, Sir J. D. KING, Hon. H. CORRY, Colonel CUST, Mr. DUGDALE, Mr. 'aural, Mr. H. DAVIS, Mr. BURRELL, Mr. JOLLIFFE, Mr. ASHURST, Ma'. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. CUST, Mr. BALFOUR, Mr. BEI/NELL, Mr. ESTCOURT, Mr. MACLEOD, Mr. MIL BANK. THE ARMY. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. GENERALS-Calcraft, from Coldst. Gds. ; Moncrieff, Gov. of Carrickfergus; Sir J. C. Sherbrooke, G. C.B. 33 F. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL—J. Burton, from Royal Art. East Cowes. 111.t.ron-GENERALs—D. Stewart, from 96 F. Gov. of St. Lucia ; J. P. Coffin, Bath. COLONEL—Cook, h. p. I. F. 0. of a Rec. Diet. Rouen. . _ LIEUTENANT-COLONEL-Durnford,Royal Art. Jamaica. CAPTAINs—Otway, 46 F.; Bibby, h. p. 7 F. New York; Farr, h. p. 28 F. Healing, Lincoln ; Thomson, h. p. 32 F. Newry ; Kirchberger, h. p. Watteville's Regt. Berne ; Craig, h. p. York Rangers, Bath. LIEUTENANTS—Thoreau, 1 W. I. R. Trinidad ; King, late 2 Royal Vet. Bn. ; APLennun, late 6 do. Edinbarzli ; llinckes, late 7 do. Guernsey; Sherlock, h. p. 20 F. Fort Clarence, Chatham. ENSIGNS—Payne, 32 F. ; Northey, 95 F. Malta ; Gor don, late 10 Royal Vet. Bn. PAYMASTERS—MacdonaId, 23 F. Gibraltar; Cross grove, h. p. 76 F. Boulogne; Mackenzie, h. p. 4 Vet. Bn. Fort Clarence, Chatham; Scot, late 4. Vet. Bn. Quebec. ADJUTANT—F. Campbell, Argyll and Bute Militia. Qua KTER -MA STE RS—Henery, h. p. 6 Dr. Gds.. ; O'Neill, h. p. 107 F. Nanaglilnore, Ireland. ASSISTANT-SURGEONS — CampbeII, 6 F. et Sea ; Case ment, 31 F. do. (on hoard the Atholia); Blackadder, h. p. Staff; Schmersahl. At. Ger. Leg. Hanover. HOSPITAL-ASSISTANT—De Heaume, h. p. Staff, Jersey. Five officers and sixty men of the 13th Light Dragoons are ordered to hold themselves in readiness to embark on board the Hon. Company's ship London, for Madras, on the sth March, from the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone. Captain J. 13. Spooner succeeds Capt. lioustoun in the command of the Depot - Troop of the 4th Light Dragoons. Captain J. N. Creighton succeeds Capt. Tomlinson in that of the 11th Light Dragoons, who embarks with a large detachment of men and officers early in June for Bengal. A detachment of the 16th Lancers will also embark at that time for Bengal. General Lord Charlei H. Somerset, from the Ist West India regiment, will be appointed Colonel of the 33d (Ist York West Riding) regiment of foot, vice Sir John Sher brooke, G.C.8., deceased. Major-General Sir P. Maitland, K.C.8., the Lieut.- Governor of Nova Scotia, will be apppointed Colonel of the Ist West India regiment, vice General Lord Charles Somerset, transferred to the 33d regiment of Infantry: Lieutenant-General Sir William Hutchinson is appointed to the Governorship of Carrickfergus, vice General George Moncreiff, deceased. (From the Limerick Chronicle of Feb. 24.) The 62d Regiment, in this city, is estimated on the British establishment to the 25th of March—when they will receive an additional Lieutenant-Colonel, one Captain, ten Lieutenants and Assistant Surgeon, previous to em barking at Chatham, for Madras. They expect to leave this en the Bth of March, to embark in steamers at Cove for Bristol, whence they march to Chatham. The 60th Rifles in this district daily expect a mute for Dublin. The 68th Light Infantry, from Fermoy, and the 70th, from Temp!more, it is supposed, will replace the Rifles and 62d here. Lieutenant-Colonel Grove, from the Dublin district, is to succeed Captain Forster, of the Ssth, as Brigade Major in this district. The reduction in the army extends to the officers of Assistant Adjutant-General, and Assistant Quarter-master General in Dublin, the former is held by Col. O'Brien, the latter by Col. Owen. The situation of Adjutant-General of England, at pre sent possessed by General Sir Herbert Taylor, is to be abolished. The vacancies in cavalry regiments of Second Majors will not be filled up. A reduction of 454 men will be made in the cavalry regiments. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 16. The weather continues warm and pleasant : the Missis sippi remains at the same stage noticed in our last, within about three feet six inches of high-water-mark. The market, in general, is as it was when noticed in our last; aid we have not heard of any thing new in relation to commerce, save the loss by fire, on the 12th instant, of 4,944 bales of cotton, together with the buildings of the press of Messrs. N. and G. Hart, Charles-street, and fronting on Common and Gravier-street. COTTON.-Arrived, since the Bth inst., 8,221 bales; cleared, in same time, 9,115 bales ; leaving on hand, in clusive of all on ship-board not cleared on the 14th inst., a stock of 48,446 bales, less 4,944 lost at the burning of the press of Messrs. N. and B. Hart. Using Liverpool classifications, and having advanced a shade on former quotations, we quote ordinary, i ; middling, Si a 9 ; fair, 9e a 91 ; good fair, 91 a 10+; good and fine, 10i a 11, good demand. The operations of the week have been fair, and in every respect fully up to what could .reasonably be expected ; buyers show a good disposition, and sales have been made at our quotations, though we ure unable to relate particulars; we continue last quotations of Louisiana and Mississippi, though we have understood that they would bear an advance of a shade. Freight to Liverpool 9-16 Few shipping. Very. France 9 l, cents, j dull. Exchange on London France , '734 5 42g. Rates at the United States' Br a n c h B an k.' Bills on London on Paris on Amsterdam STOCKS . , Louisiana State Bank, fun Shaves l2 per cent. pm. Three-fifth paid l2 per cent. psi. Bank of Orleans Stock, full ;dares 5 per cent. pin.,dctd off: Half ditto 5 per cent. pm. do. Bank of Louisiana l2 per cent. pin. sales. HALIFAX.- ' llie market at Halifax, on Sa turday last, was one of the dullest ever known ; and at present there ' • no indication of a revival of any of the is branches o f tra d e by which that neighbourhood is mainly that persons supported. The general complaint ag p sns l un ic ool e tii engaged n the operatives, after t oi get common in'erest upon r a r; n a ( - 11 1 0‘4,7 t ie t hi t yl a os ntu hoard a day, do not allow them to exist without appaling to the parish.— Manchester Advertiser] SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. So far as may be judged from a few words spoken by the First Lord of the Treasury in the debate on Lord Stanhope's motion, there exists little prospect .1 any immediate measure on the part of his Ma jesty's Government, for relieving the distresses of the country, by means of a repeal or sensible dimi nution of taxes. Finance Ministers are a class of gentlemen not easily convinced against. their wills. Few of them seem to have read Swift with advan. tage, or to have conceived the possibility that by lowering the rate of an impost, the amount of re venue which it produces may be considerably in creased. But the incredulity of official gentlemen as to that very interesting fact is now the more to be wondered at and regretted, because experience, in modern times, during many successive years, and in various instances, ought to have satisfied even clerks in office, the " practical" and impenetrable of mankind, that the revenue - has really improved after, and by consequence of, a reduction of taxes. Lord Goderich bore testimony to this consoling truth, in the case of the duties on foreign wine, which were lowered under his administration as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The spirit duties might be adduced as another example of a stimulus to consumption, administered through a partial relief from taxation, being strong enough to overpower the direct influence of diminished duties. But there is another mode of dealing with certain taxes,--namely, that of a total repeal,--far preferable. to mere diminution, and operating, though more circuitously no doubt, to augment the receipts of the Treasury ; that is, where taxes on raw materials are levied by expedients vexatious and oppressive in thenuelves, where.they go at once to prevent the iiziprovemiinr, and impair the quality of: the manufacture produced from the persecuted article; and where, after all, the fruit of the tax thus forted is insignificant. We do not know whether all-three objections apply to any imposts in the whole mug, of our finance, with greater truth and accuracy than to the tax ow hops, and the tax on leather, referred to by Lord Gode rich on the above-mentioned night. They are, t 'both duties upon raw materials Rill =of vexation ,in" the details by which they are levied , and tending most powerfully to discourage the use of wholesome beer, and the improvement of the leather manufacture, which can be carried on no otherwise than by a preposterous and tyrannical intrusion of the Excise officer into every stage of the process. The tanner is, in truth, not only subjected to a most irksome inquisition by that odious visitor, the Exciseman, but he is, in a spirit of singular and unutter able folly, forbidden by the Act of Parliament to exercise his own judgment, orknowledge, or enter prize, about the very business through which he earns his bread. As thef Irish distiller is compelled to sell " Parliament whisky," so is the English tan ner to make " Parliament soles" for the feet of his Majesty's subjects. No experiment can he' try, — no study or ingenuity can he render conducive to the alvancernent of the leather manufacture of this country, whence it follows that there has been general complaint of the decline in quality of English leather; and instead of that most valuable article maintaining a competition, like our woollens and cottons, with the leather of foreign countries, the export of it amounts comparatively to little or nothing; and a pair of boota in' England costs at least double what they are bought' for in any part of Europe. The repeal of both the duties referred to would not merely add to the health and comfort of the people, but, by a reduction in the price of beer and leather, would enable the con- sumers of these articles •to contribute to the re- venue by a more extended use of commodities still subject to taxation. The impolicy of taxing raw materials in a manufacturing country, the suc cess of whoie manufactures in the markets of the world must, cwteris paribus, depend on the low cost of production, is well exposed by Sir Henry Parnell in his admirable work on financial reform, to which we have more than once directed the attention of our readers.—We quote the whole chapter entitled " Taxes on Raw Materials," and leave the author, by his. own clear and temperate language, to work the due effect of his suggestions on the public mind ; nor are we yet without some confidence, that when his Majesty's Ministers'cOme to review the amount of our present taxation as con nected with the unquestionable wants of our posi tion, they will give way to that necessity which is manifest to all the rest of the world, and extend to the country some re li e f more ser i ous than that arising from the very small and pitiful retrenchment of which Mr. Goulhurn has, alread3 given notice. — Why, we ask again, has nothing been done with regard to the enormous charges of our foreign mis sions ? Why is this not pushed in the House ? " TAXES ON RAW MATERIALS, " It appears, from an account laid before the House of .. - Commons in the last Session (a copy of which is inserted in tLe Appendix), that the taxes on the materials 4 manu factures, buildings, ship-building, &c., produced in 1827 a net revenue of 6,191,9561. " Although there is no proposition in finance the truth of which is more readily admitted than that which affirms the impoliey of taxing the materials of industry, there is, at the same time, so little appearance of a proper effort being made to modify or repeal this claw of tants, that nothing appears to be more wanting than a full explana tion of their injurious operation on the employ ment of capital and labour, the accumulation of capital, and the increase of national wealth. " As the power of the manufacturing capital of a country to purchase raw materials is is proportion to their cheap. ness, and as the extent of manufactures is in 'proportion to the quantity of materials that are purchased, every particle of duty laid on them lessens the amount of industry and of annual productions. It consequently lessens the mealts of adding to the national capital, because these means consist of the surplus of the annual productions of the country. When, therefore, no less a sum is raised every year than 6,000,000/. on materials, it is manifest how great an injury this kind of taxation must do, by limiting manu facturing and every ether kind of industry. " These taxes have also a very injurious effect in limit ing navigation and foreign commerce; for if there were no such taxes, the increased quantity -of foreign materials that would he imported, and of finished goods that would be exported to pay fur these materials, would add considerably to both navigation and foreign commerce. " The levying of so large a sum on articles that require capital and labour to give them utility anti value, own strike every one as being a most serious obstacle in tks way of remedying the evil which presses at this momeAt the heaviest on the country,—namely, the want of elaployment of the poor. The modifying or wholly repealing, there. fore, of these taxes, is a measure partioulArly called for, under the present state of our manufactures and of the labouring class ; provided it can be known, as it may he, that it can be carried into effect, without any difficulty in making good the revenue which is now derived front these taxes. " With respect to the foreign market for our manufac. tures, the taxes on materials produce an evil of the greatest magnitude ; for by increasing the cost of production, tha!, contribute to lessen the means our manufacturers have ca` carrying on a successful competition with foreio warm, facturers. Whatever may be the difference between ono ry count and another with respect to soil, climate, capital, wages, and machinery, the circumstance which leads tv the exportation of manufactures, and makes it profitalilu is the advantage in the smallness of the cost of producing therm; every tax, therefore, on materials, by increasing the cost of production, lessens the means of carrying on corn- Petifon with foreigners, and acts as a bounty on foreigrt manufactures, and is therefore a tax of the most perni.i,u - tial d2scription. o 3 p E :r(I It' e .ti r ic r ai a ti te eoa r up i a re l r o wtoi :v oa e lti r e e ialts, fr re e tu e etb o t: f natis d u ty, the consequence silks, hardware, nna other manufactures, might be sent to foreign markets to and to those peystwa who have a due sense of mercantile profit, and of how little a turn one way or the other secures or loses a market, this will appear to be of the greatest importance. What, in point of fact, under the present circumstances of our ma, nufacturcs, we have moat cause to be alarmed at is, not the depression of the home-market, but foreign cotupeti 7 tion, in c , nsequence of the progress now making on the continent of Europe and in America in the improving and extending of all kinds of manufactuirli. We shall do wel/, therefore, to look into toe effects of taxation ; for if continue to load our manufacturers as they are now lc.aded„ we may be assured that taxes will bring upon us the same I eSUIt that they brought on Holland ; what these were, _is thus described in 11. Luzac's work on the Wealth of Holes land ;— 4 D'autres examineront pout-kre si ees tax; .1 etzt