The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-04 00:00:00

orni 4 LhOti le 'St 3111 , hose ° ;a 10 4 t' j % vivier Hatdel ss f of Forgi6. .e vre ri ev iew J ,,, P P wag net SS 0' nk . ,i SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-•(THIS DAY.) FlioAl LLOYD'S. • DEAL, JAN. 2 and 3 —Wind N.W.—Arrived the Georg e Canning, Butby, and Nichosdale, Christie, from London, for New South Wales. Arrived the Thames, Adart, frora Quebec. Arrived from Lon. don, the Thomas Coutts, Chrystie, for India ; and Lively, Ford, for Smyina. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Hannibal, Hebard, for New York. FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Sphynx packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed the 27th of October; and Union, Clinch, from Trieste.— Sailed the Bramble packet, for Lisbon. PENZANCE, JAN. 2.—Off Port, the Wellwood, Fisher, from llavannah. LOWESTOFT, JAN. 3.—The Ellen, Turner, from Selby to London, ran upon Newcome Sands ia , t night, aNd was assisted off; she makes water, but will proceed. LIVERPOOL, JAN. L—lt was the hull, mast, and stern of u vessel which was washed up at Port patriek with " Othello" upon it. The John, .Renton, from Odes4a to Liverpool, Was lost 20th October on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sc,i4 and rdl on hoard drowned. The Neva, from Demerara ; and Atalanta, from Halifax, have arrived off Holyhead. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK The following has been received from Liverpool, dated Jan. 2 :—The import of Cotton Wool into Liverpool has been 10,000 bags more in 1829 than in 1828 ; but the stock in Liverpool, at the close of 1829, is 92,250, or about one-third less than at the close of 1828. There has been a brisk demand this week, and 15,320 bags have been sold at an advance of id. The export of Raw Cotton from Great Bii tain during the month ending Dec. 26, 1829, was 3,561 bags, and from London, Liverpool, and Hull, 19,624; and Twist, 16,538. The following was posted at the North and South American Coffee-house : FALAIDUTII, JAN. have to inform you that the Sphynx packet is this instant arrived from Brazil, having on board 33,000 dollars on merchants' ac count. The Princess and young Queen arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 16th October, and was married the following day. Great rejoicings took place Pit -10 days. TIIE FUNDS. Consols, which left off very heavy on Saturday at 9,5 k for the account, opened in the same state this morning at 95i, afterwards were done at 95i; a reaction took place, and they ere up again to 951 since which they have receded to 954 for the account, at xvWch price they remain at present, but the market appears much agitated. In the Foreign Market a good deal has been doing in Brazil Stock, owing to a report of a loan for that Government of two millions. The Stork fell to 68k, but afterwards went up again to 70. The Brazil mail has arrived, brought by the Spkynx. Sailed from Rio Janeiro 27th Oct., from Pernambuco 19th September, and from Bahia 25th September. The foreign letters being delivered late, we do not as yet hear any thing in regard to the above Brazilian loan. Bank Stock, 216 17 ENGLISE India Stock, S per Cent. Cuns. shut Do., for Account, 951 Ditto Red uce d, 94 FUNDS. 3i per Cent. 1001 i New 4 per Cent., shut 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 India Bonds, 72 73 Exchequer Bills, 78 79 I FUNDS. Greek, 30i I Mexican, 26i 27 Peruvian, 181 Portuguese, 61 62 Prussian, Russian, 109 Spanish, 101 Brazilian, 714 2 I'OREIG Buenos Ayres, 27 29 Chilian, 26i 27i Colombian, 214 5 Danish, French, b per Cent. 108 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 83i 4 TWO O'CLOCK The Consol Market has been rather fidgety during the morning, and Consols at present are 95a, sellers for the Account, with no speculations of magnitude going forward. The private letters from Rio Janeiro bring the Exchange rather lower, in consequence of large re mittances from Rio in bullion, but the Stock ha4got up there from G7i to 70. The letters from Paris, by the Express, state that money was very scarce there. In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock has been the chief operation this morning, in which a reaction has taken place from 681 to 72. The report of a Loan of two millions for Brazil is not credited ; and it is stated by report front the West End of the Town, that there is to be a private Lo an of one million sterling to be contracted in London, for some pnrpose connected with the Por tuguese Loan. Brazil Imperial Shares have experienced a consi derable depression of ten pounds per share, owing to the above mine having fallen off in its produc tion of gold. We have no political information of consequence. Consols for Account, 957 1 . 11 EE O'CLOCK. NEWGATE AND LEADEN!' ALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. tos. (1. s. Eltos. d. Beet Mutton .... •? 0 310 Pork NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MARKET —Jan. 1. We had a good supply of Wheat from the farmers to day, for which there was a steady demand, with little change on late prices. The Oat market * remains as for some weeks back. The late large supply of Barley has got cleared off the market, and we expect the next arrivals will meet ready sale at better prices. Sound Rye in de mand. Few Beans or Pease offering. Flour steady. New. Wheat, Northumberland 51s. 02s -s --e. Norfolk and Suffolk 58s. ti9s. Berwick and 5c0tch......... ...... 565. 58s —s. l)antzig —s. Rye, Norfolk and Sutlolic 32s 3tis. . s . F oreign —s —s. 32s 355. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk-295. 31s Grinding .:nd Feeding 2ls. 275. Malt, Norfolk and Suthilk —s. 545. 58s. Beans, Small Pease, White ---- Gray Oats, Nurthumberland, Poratoe , 225. 26s Feed ltis 19s. Foreign —s. —s., Flour, Fine (per sack) —s —s 43s 445. Prince LEOPOLD dined with the Duchess of KENT on Friday, being Ncw Year's Day, at her residence in the King's Palace at Kensington. His Royal Highness returned to Claremont in the evening. M . VESEY FITZGERALD continues seriously indisposed. The Right Hon. Gentleman is attended by two physicians. Mr. PEEL frequently pays personal visits to his colleague, and others of the Ministers send doily to make inquiries after his health. The answer re turned yesterday was, " Mr. FITZGERALD is a little better." The Lord Chief Baron of Scotland is re covering from his indisposition. The Russian and French Ambassadors have lately been in constant communication. DEATH OF MRS. MITFORD.—It iS Out me lancholy task to announce the death of Mrs. MITFORD, the mother of our amiable and respected Miss Mrrroan. This excellent lady had been for some years an invalid ; hut on Sunday last she was seiz-d with apoplexy, and died on Friday night, in the arms of her husband and daughter, at their cottage, near Readin7. It is a sad affliction to this charming (tinily, so united and happy within them selves. Miss Mirroßn's deep and filial tenderness was the theme of constant admiration with all who knew her ; neither fame nor pleasure ever lured her from the couch of her suffering parent. The remembrance of the tenderness she bestowed on her mother (luring her tedious illness will he a sweet solace to her grief, and enable her to console her deeply afflicted father. Wild fowl have been abundant in Chichester Harbour during the week, many of which have been shot. Wild scams were never remembered so numerous as at present. Some curious mergansers, bitterns, and others, have enriched the cabinets of the curious. A saddle-hack gull was shot at Appledram, by G. LECGATF, Esq., of West Hampnett, which measured sft. 4in. from the tips of the wings, and had a robin-redbreast in its mouth.—Hants Chronicle. On Tuesday a wild or whistling swan was shot cff Shoreham Harbour, measuring 4ft. 10in. long ; in hreadth, the wings extended, seven feet ; and weighs nearly 18 lbs. The bird differs from the tame swan, not only in the external appearance, but also in the peculiar arrange ment of its trachea, which enters the keel of the breast bone, and returns, after doubling itself, in a cavity, about three inches deep. lhefe birds never visit this country but in severe winters.—Hants Chronicle. COTTON TRADE.—It gives us great pleasure to corroborate the accounts which we have from time to time given of the cotton trade, by the annual statement of the brokers. The consumption in Scotland has increased upwards of 100 bales a week, on an average of the present year. Bags. Apparent consumption in 1829 83,000 Deduct for what was rendered unfit for spin ning at the great fire in Mitchell-street Net consumption Ditto last year Increase this year The weight of the bags is this year about 15 lb. heavier, but this, it is estimated, will be counterbalanced by the greater stork in the hands of the spinners.—Glasyou, Chronicle. lIARNIONICON. we have just seen the last number of this m onthly musi ca l pu b lication, which appears to have been got up with spirit and elegance. There is much variety in the number, as also some favourable specimens of musical composition. The Reviews, however, are now a n d t h en not qu i te so liberal as they might be, among which we may mention the " Fire -side Lyrics," a plain little musical work, which is noticed by the Harmonicon in a harsh, rot to say, an unbecoming spirit. LORD EagainstoUTH.—During th e act i on against the Algerines, as L or d E XMOUTH and Captain BR'S were conversin g together, by a spent ball, or some other Caine, the latter was struck flat on the deck. Lord Etatauvri immediately called the first Lieutenant, and exclaimed, " Poot:BRISBANE! he's gone ! tak e th e com nand." Th e Captain, raising himself in a sitting pos ture, coolly said, " Not y e t, m y L or d ;" an d i n a moment ater, resumed his share in the business of the day. We understand that all the preachers of the Royal Chapel at Whitehall have been dismissed by the Bishop of LoNDON.—Morning Post. iiWe understand that a regular post-office has future all at Tarporley, in this county, and that in thither through a letter from this side of the county , will be sent Dr. ji Id C • C hester.—Maccles field e Courier. thing in his DOYLE has le,lged himself to do every power to pr o mote P the formation of Temper ance Societies in his diocse. He says that if malting and hrewi • ng were exempted from tax, and the impost on liWhiskey raised, drunkenness would in a little time almost sappear from the country.—Cork Constitution. 'We feel gratified in being able to state that there is:not at present e • le debtor in the County Gaol or Brecon.-- Cambria': sing A prospectus has been issued for the esta be"shment o f a Joint Stoe: Banking Company at York, to a called " Th e York Banking Company " —Capital 4 U , °O ,OOO/. i n 5,000 1001 shares. It is stated that 1000 ar e 4 have already been taken. —Holifax The iron and lead trades continue in a very gepres se d state. A great quantity of iron is disposed of, but so touch has the roduction of the article been i ncrease d by - "e oPenin g of new P mines a nd works, that th e prices a re kept very low.—Sheffield Mercury. In the winter season the tribes of coast fish. e url ' 48 rod, haddo c k, w hi t i ngs, & c., are commonly f orce d a the cold f rom the banks and shallows, their summer T h u ,nta s ,. to deep water wh ere th e temperature i s m ild er. 4. 7 n hermen have in consequence to go further to sea in th ' e reh of them. This winter, however, has, at least in t. 4 3 , 1 1). of Cromarty, proved an exception in this respect igtei,toost every , other within recollection ; for the fish, in or removing to the depths, have gone higher up the 554 i e n ud have been caught much nearer the shore than. Itetit t h lu mnier. This the fishermen attribute to the ree,,, "ober of young herrings in the frith, and to the Mil dness of the weather,—lnverness Courier. . THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CoUN-EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain last week, tog; ther with the fresh supplies of this morning, are moderate.— Of Flour the quantity is Itir. The navigation !Tim; re opened, there is a revival of business to-day. The Wheat trade may be reported dull, without any alteration from the prices last quoted. Barley of mime malting quality sells freely, and fully maintains its former value, grinding parcels are dull. Beans and Pease meet a slow sale, and hardly maintain the terms of this day se'nnight. Good Oats are in demand, and fully support the prices of last Monday; there is a slack trade for all other descriptions. The Flour trade remains without variation. PRICES ON POACH OF SHIP. Wheat, lied (old: -White (i IS'2 -- Fine_ --- Super( --White (I Fine.. Foreign 455. 70s. Beans, Small (new)... -s. -s. old) sw. 78s. B) 41s. 48s. - Tick (new)._ 27s 30s. '3os. 580 flue.. Mo. - Harrow (new) 30s. 335. 463. 'Os. 635. 6Ss. I Brank 22s 21s. tine.. 70s. 725. I Oats, Feed free 455. 80s. I New 31.0. I - Poland 225. 275. New 20s. 275. flos, 325. I'otatoe Its. 365. 1 New ... 255. 31s. 435. 3flo. I - Scotch Old -s. -s. 58s, 635, - Irish I ts. ISs 265. 31s. 335. I Flour Town ;per sack) Ms 60s. 335. 375. j --- Seconds 455. 525. 325. :06.1- North Country 445. 525. 38s. 425. 1 Bran Re Barley - Fine - Superfine Malt -- Fine Pease, Grey -- Maple - White - Boilers , ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON I)t7RINO LAST WEEK. • 4 4 0 7, 4 • V .1; Fe From Whence. . a 6 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldborong Boston Bridlington — (Colchester lO2 332 3eo 199 127 1596 ' t " . ; ) Harwich 295 ) Leigh 261 20 70 10 8 Mallon Ipswlch lll 9 01 7 32 207 13 430 Kent 2OO 100 200 80 310 Poole Stockton NVells — 300 Whitby — 129 Woodbridge 7l 56 Varmint h ...... 1595 1660 111 40 2372 Aberdeen — 990 Arbroath Banff — 520 nerwick L'undee — 20 10 verness — 158 irkaldy 1506 3991 2952 3591 516 412 6165 „ nisi!. 2io 20 k7a!way igo — 1845 FOREIGN. Dantzic ——— Total 1506 3991 292 5136 5 16 532 6185 AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER KINDS OF PULSE. nye, 0---Tares, B--Linseed, o—Rapeseed, 0--Brank, 10-- Mustard, 20—Seeds, 0. SMITHFIELD 11: ARKET This day's supply of Beasts awl of Calves and Pork,rs ; Sheep was rather great, he trade, owing to the unfavourablensss of the weather for sl nightering, and the butchers' shops and carcass markets being overstocked with their last week's meat, was throughout very Beef, in most instances, at a depression, with Veal at an advance, of about 2d. per stone ; with Mutton and Pork at barely Thursday's prices. There were a considerable number of store Devonshire, and small store Irish Beasts, offering, hut these commanded little notice. At the time this report was written there were as good Oxen as need be slaughtered offering at 3s. per stone without buyers. PRICES PER STONE OF BLISS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to g. d. 8. d. to s. A. Inferior feasts 2 0 2 2 Large Lambs Second quality ditto 2 2 2 t Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Prime largo Oxen... 3 2 3 6 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Prime Scots, 3 6 310 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Inferior 5heep....... 2 2 2 4 Large Hogs 1 4 3 8 s,ccond quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Small l'orkers.. ..... 4 0 4 4 Coarse-woollen ditto 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s. to2Bs. each. SoutlidownWctliers 4 0 4 41 Quarteroldl'igs 12s. to 16s. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLER K ' S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheen. I Calves. I Pigs. I 3,114 19,110 87 150 About 2000 of the beasts came up the different North Roads; about 200 from the western and midland districts ; about 650 from Norfolk, Sullblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 100 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the.marshes, &c., in the neighbourhood of London, including about 30) left unsold on Monday and Thursday last. SURREY TII EATu A piece called Ambrose. Gmincii, by the•author of Black-eyed Susan, was product d at this theatre last week. Though it is far inferior to that popular piece, and abounds wi b inTrobabilities, yet what with good acting, and a judo loos arrangement of in cidents, it met wi•li a fovottrable reception. The story, which is tak,•n from some mwient tradition, iS founded on the rivalry of two lovers, and exhibits dining the dominion of the passion, traits of charac ter which are but seldom found in real life. A black smith (Mr. RAYNER), after being disappointed in love, bribes the leader of a pressgang to kidnap his rival (Mr. FORESTER); not succeeding in this, his rival is accused of murder; he bears witness against him, the supposed murderer is convicted, and hung in chains, his rival glories over his misfor tunes, and feeds his dark mind with the prospect of revenge. The convict, after undergoing the sen tence of the law, escapes from the gibbet—flees his country, is taken by Corsairs, sold as a slave, regains his liberty, and after a lapse of eighteen years returns to the place of his birth, where he finds the object of his affection still lamenting over his fate, and his accuser reduced to the last degree of wretchedness and the execration of mankind. When the unfor tunate victim of so many calamities at last makes himself known, his rival, though decrepid and bowed down with poverty and age, exults in the discovery, and seems to forget all his misfortunes in anticipation of the repetition of the sanguinary scene which bad occurred eighteen years before: Such ate some of the improbabilities with which the piece abounds. The part allotted to RAYNER is one of the most revolting, yet he contrives to interest the audience, and pourtrays with such effect the misery and utter hopelesness of despised old age, as to excite even sympathy in his favour. We have seldom seen a better representative of an old roan. Mr. FORESTER personated the hated rival with grace and ease, and Mr. VALE, by his humour, contrived not a little to relieve the gloom such sad scenes produce. The success of the piece is owing chiefly to the actors. In inferior hands it probably would not have survived two nights. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Earl and Countess of Listowell, at Kingston House, Ken sington Gore; Mr. and Lady Jane Goding, at their house in Belgrave-square, from the Earl of Coventry's scat, Croome, in Worcestershire; Lady Payne, in York-place; Major Alfred Powis, in Waterloo-place, from Lisbon; Lady and Miss O'Brien, in Gloucester-place, from Cheltenham ; Major and Mrs. Sparrow, in Montagu-place, from Cheltenham ; Captain Spencer, for Bath ; Lady and Miss Crosby, in Park-street, from Ramsgate ; Captain and Mrs. Monk, in South Audley-street, from Brigh ton ; Captain and Mrs. Rose, in Pall-mall, from Bath ; the Earl of Liverpool, from Uckfield, in Sussex, for Pitchford Hall, near Shrewsbury ; Mr. Charles Hoare, for Horton Hall, Colebrook ; Sir Edward Lloyd, Bart. from Aberystwith, for Penwarne Hall, St. Asaph ; Sir John and Lady Swinburne, from Ilexham Hall, for Capheaton, Northumberland; Mr. John Poulett, for Ad dington Hall, Windsor; Mr. Lascelles Iremonger, for Clubford Hall, Andover ; Colonel Sir Ralph Hamilton, for Engletield green ; Mr. Samuel Boddington, from Harley-street, for Mickle ham, in Surrey; Earl Amherst, from Grosvenor-square, for Montreuil, in Kent; Mrs. and Miss Nixon, from Cheltenham, for Bath ; Major and Mrs. Howard, for Brighton ; Mr. John King, from Grosvenor-place, for Petworth ; Mr. Thos. Alcocke, for King's Wood Warren, Reigate. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE GREAT DONCASTER ST. LEGER. The North Country Nominations for this great Stakes closed at York, on Saturday morning, as follows : TUESDAY.—The St. Leger Stakes of 25 says, each for 3 yrs. old Colts, Bst. 61b. ; Fillies, Bst. 31b. St. Leger Course. I ford Scarborough's b. c. Carolan, by Catton. b. c. Brother to Tarrare, by Caton. Sir E. Dodsworth's ch. c. by St. Patrick—Lisette. Mr. W. Duncombe's b. c. Barleycorn by Figaro. Mr. Arnold's I). f. by Figaro. Mr. Ellcray's b. c. General Honeywmod, by Swiss. Col. Cradoek's ch. c. The Barber, by Figaro, Violet. Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. f. Lady Emmeline, by Phantom. Mr. Riddell's b. c Emancipation, by Whisker. Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. Brien, by Blacklock—Princess. Mr. Petre's b. c. Brunswieker, by Figaro—Mauiac. ch. f. Laura, by Figaro—Juliana. Mr. J, Scott's ch. c. Reynard, by Partisan. Lord Hawke's eh. c. The Major, brother to The Colonel. Mr. W. Scott's br. c. Reginald, by Figaro. b. c. Pedestrian, by .Tramp. Mr. Walker's eh. c. Splendour, by Sovereign. Mr. W. Riehardson's br. f. Hermione, by Figaro. Mr. Arrnita;e's br. f. Bartolozzi, by Tramp. Mr. Foljambe's hr. f. by Whisker. Mr. Norton's b. f. Catalani, by Tiger. Mr. M. Foulis's br. f. lady Frances, by Figaro. Mr. Metcalfe's b. c. Mimic, by Wanton Lord Sligo's br. c. Brine, by Waxy Pope, Bigotti► i. . . b. c. Canker, brother to Cant, by Waxy Pope. Lord Fitzwilliam's br. c. by Cervantes—Clinkerina. Lord Milton's ch. c. by Middleton—Nanine. Lord Cleveland's b. c. Raby, by Tiresias—Pomons. ch. c. Wat Tyler, by Wrangler—Medora. Lord Kelburne's ch. e. by Woful—Emilia. Sir D. Baird's b. c. Snooks, by Champignon. Mr. Wright's gr. c. Iglus, by Figaro or Senator. Mr. Russell's b. c. by Oiseau. Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Redstart, by Whisker—Rhadacantha. ch. f. Lady Mowbray, by Blacklock. b. f. by Whisker. Mr. Watts's 1. c. Apantador, by Blacklock. Mr. 11. Shepherd's b. c. The Cardinal, by Waxy Pope. Mr. Howell's b. 1. by Ivanhoe. Lord Queensberry's hr. c. Hassan, by Whisker. b. f. Maria, sister tolinuna, by Whisker. Mr. Gascoyne'a ch. c. by Blacklock—Cora. Mr. J. Gill's b. c. by Bonassus. Mr. Shepherd's h. c. by Oiseau. Mr. F. Richardson's b. c. St. Nicholas, by Emilius. ---- b. f. Landrail, by Bustard. b. f. Jay, by Shuffler. Mr. Bailey's br. c. Utrecht, by Figaro—Alfana. On Saturday, the major part of the Com mittee selected to conduct a diversity of performances at the Haymarket Theatre, for the benefit of poor Isaacs (deprived of sight), his wife, and distressed family, assem bled at Covent-garden Theatre, for the purpose of coining to some arrangement respecting the entertainment s to be performed on the night of the 18th inst. it was resolved that all possible publicity should be given to Mr. PRICE'S kind intimation, that any of the members of his com pany, who might be disengaged on the night in question, had his full concurrence to lend their aid in support of the meritorious undertak,ing. Miss FooTE has kindly volun teered her services on the occasion, and leaves a country engagement unfinished expressly for the purpose of ren dering her assistance to the poor man, in his darkness and misfortune. Mr. Jon N REEVE arid Mr. WEPT, have also tendered their eminent services, as has Mr. T. I'. COoKE, notwithstanding ha will he required to perform on the same night ; at the Surrey Theatre, in Black Eyed Susan. The Committee availed themselves of Mr. FawcErr's liberal offer to play his original character of Sir Mark Chase, in Alioland for an Oliver, and Miss FOOTE kindly consented to act her original part of Maria Darlington. Observer. On Saturday afternoon a boat, with four persons on board, was upset when coming up Rye Harbour. Every exertion was promptly made to save the crew; but the tide was running down very strongly, and they were half a mile distant from the town. One man, however, supported himself by clinging to the boat until be was rescued from his perilous situation ; the other three were unfortunately lost, viz. Mr. Hord...trip, a master butcher, RICHARD STOKES, his foreman, and WILLIAM CooK, a boatman. The body of STOKES was picked up soon after, and every means used to restore animation, but without success.—Hants Chronicle. KINROSS.—Since the commencemene of the present storm, a flock of wild swans have visited Loch Leven. A young one has been caught, which appears to be full a year and a half old, weighing fourteen pounds, and measuring from tip to tip of the wings seven feet nine inches, and from the point of the beak to the end of the tail four feet nine inches, of a light bluish grey all over, but of a snowy whiteness under the wings. Before the draining of Loch Orr, the wild swans annually visited the Leven in great numbers, and made many an effort to obtain a domicile on its shores and islands, which, but for fishers, poachers, aid "plundering herds," who robbed their nests, and shot them for the sake of their skins, might have abounded with these highly ornamental majestic in habitants of the lakes and rivers. It is to be hoped that now, on the completion of the present improvements, when the surrounding shores will be the exclusive pro perty of the Lord of the Manor, that some measures will he adopted for their preservation and protection.—File Her. SPIRIT OF TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The " owners and occupiers of land" in the hundred of Ely, &c. &C., have had a meeting, and have agreed on a petition to Parliament, praying for some measures of relief to the suf fering of the agricultural interest. We neither object to a general petiti )n for redress or grievances, nor (as little) do we object to the specific means of remedy which are sought for in- the present petition. y The owners and occu piers pray for " economy and retrenchment in every department of the State," and that such virtues may be carried " to their utmost practi cable limits,"—that is to say, to such limits as may be found "consistent with the maintenance of the public safety." As connected with, apd resulting from, a system of rigid and conscien tious economy, and one, indeed, on which it would be foolish to reckon apart from such a preliminary, the petitioners call for a " material reduction of ail taxes pressing directly or indi rectly on the necessaries of life." This, of course, must imply a reduction of all taxes whatever ; for where is the impost whielm does not press " directly or indirectly" on the ne cessaries of life ? The malt tax is here par ticularly, and we admit wisely, referred to, as one which goes in a most direct manner to curtail the comforts of the working classes. A revision of the poor laws is further sug gested,—an experiment in which we have long and often declared our concurrence, but not with a view to restore them (which would now in . _England be a hopeless experiment) to their original condition in time days of Elizabeth, fbr it is undoubted that iF relief from the poor rates often acts under its present administration " as a premium on idleness and dissipation," the in variable absence of such relief would, under pre sent circumstances, consign, in many cases, to hunger and destruction, whole families of ho nest and industrious unemployed and resource. less poor. Respecting the charges, for such they seem to be, brought against the fundholder, as contrasted with the dealer in landed property, they arc really quite untenable. The fundholder has not been treated by all our finance Ministers since the war, "solely as a claimant on the pub lic resources of the country, without regard to his responsibility for the debt, as a member of the community ; and the illustration of this statement is as absurd as the thing itself is un founded ; for the petition alleges that funded property has increased in value in the same ratio that land has diminished. What is meant by increasing "in value ?" If by value be meant the return which is respectively yielded by Nod and stock, there never was any thing more fu tile. The Governmetit cut down, at one stroke, the interest of the fundholder, from five per cent. to four,—a loss to him of 20 per cent. out of his income. What attack of the same nature was ever made by Government on the land lord ? Why, the parallel castigation inflicted on hint by the State, was a corn law, which has Forced the fundholder and every body else to pay nearer 50 per cent. than 20 to the landed in terest for bread, and has accordingly enabled the country gentleman to levy on his tenant a higher rent, than land, unbolstered up, would fetch under any natural vicissitude of the markets. But what folly is it for the merroccupants of land to make common cause with time owners of it ; or to attend their meetings and sign their names to such petitions as the landlords dictate ! The interest of the tenant is the same with the rest of the community—it is to have land open and prices low. The landlord passes a gross cheat upon his tenantry, when he persuades them that they are benefitted by his enormous rents. Time " agricultural interest" is properly the interest of those who till time ground ; and they who cry out in favour of a corn monopoly, speak only on behalf of those who wring from the tenant the highest possible tax on his skill, and industry, and capital employed in agriculture, —namely, on behalf of the gentlemen owning and hiring out their land. We wish the occu pants to consider more soberly whose game it is that they are playing, when they attend the gen tlemen-meetings, and sign petitions prescribed to them by country gentlemen, which either call for favour to the land, or for an opposite course of policy towards the monied interest of the king dom. The following is the petition on which we have commented :-- AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. At a meetivg of the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the Hundreds of Ely and South Witchford, held at the White Hart Inn, in Ely, on Thursday, the 31st of December, 1829, Jonathan Page, Esq., in the chair, the following petition was agreed to, and ordered to be presented to the House of Com- mons " To the Hon. the Cdinmons, &c. " The humble Petition of the undersigned Owners and Occupiers of Land in the Hundred of Ely, and South Part of the Hundred of Witchford, in the county of Cambridge— " Showeth,—That agriculture, which is justly considered the mainspring of our national resources, has for some years ceased to yield to those engaged in its pursuits a due return for their capital, skill, and industry, and that the difficuities under which the cultivators of the soil have laboured have of late increased to an alarming extent. " That to whatever causes the calamity is to be ascribed, and however opinions may differ on the subject, your petitioners feel that its existence is too apparent to admit of controversy, and that the present posture of affairs, as evincing the depressed condition of agriculture, and the injurious conse quences resulting from it, is truly appalling, and calls aloud for prompt and efficacious remedies on the part of the legislature. " That in no respect has the unprosperous state of agricultuJal pursuits more forcibly shown itself than in the inability of the farmers to find employ ment for the poor,—a circumstance which has been mainly instrumental in reducing the labouring classes to their present wretched and degrading means of subsistence; and your petitioners, in considering this subject, cannot forbear contrasting the present con dition of the poor with their state in times of agri cultural prosperity. When the tillage of the land afforded a fair remuneration to the farmer, the la bourers reaped the due reward of their toil, and with their earnings maintained their families, and trained them in habits of industry and sobriety. They then filled their stations in society, with credit to themselves, and advantage to the community; and, duly appreciating the benefits of our Constitu tion, they felt they had an interest in the public weal: but now, no longer able to maintain them selves by the sweat of their brow, they are driven to the scanty pittance derived from parish funds, and which is doled out to them, not according to the labour received in return, but to the extent of their families. Congregated on roads and in gravel-pits, their spirits have become broken, and they are con stantly repining at their hard condition, and inciting each other to vicious courses, while their employers are regarded as task -masters, and the ties of attach ment to the land of their birth become gradually torn asunder. " Your Petitioners cannot but regard the present condition of the peasantry with feelings of intense anxiety for the welfare of the state; they see in it matter for serious resection for every well-wisher of his country; and they implore your Honourable House to take some means of arresting the further progress of the evil, arid of averting the lamentable consequences) that 7 must: oiliertvise ensue from it. As the most seasonable and effectual mode of relief, they wotild entreat you to push to its utmost practi c tble limits, consistent d•ith the maintenance of the public safety, economy and retrenchment in every department of the state ;—they woohl urge the ne cessity of a material reduction of all taxes Tifiiiag directly or indirectly on the necessaries of life, and particularly on the wholesome beverage of the poor; and they would also submit to your consideration the propriety of remodelling the poor laws, with the view of placing them, as fur as circumstances will allow, within the spirit of the Act of Elizabeth ; it appearing to your petitioners that those laws, as now administered, too often operate as a premium on idleness and dissipation, rather than as an incen tive to industry, and have also a direct tendency to -encourage early and improvident marriages. " Your petitioners, in calling the attention of your Honourable House to the sate of the,public creditor, disclaim any desire unjustly to invade his rights, but they cannot refrain from observing, that in the various financial measures introduced since the war, he appears to have been dealt with solely as a claimant on the public resources of the country, without regard to his responsibility for the debt, as a member of the community : as a proof of which they would notice the fact, that the funded property has increased in value in the same ratio that land has diminished; thus, in effect, relieving the Fund holder from his due share of the burdens of the war, and pressing them with increased severity on the landed interest. They feel it also to be worthy of remark, that notwithstanding the Government derives a large revenue from thi. sale and transfer of landed property, no ditties are payable on similar transactions in the the whole management of which is conducted free from charge to the fund holder. " Your petitioners humbly request your Honour able House to 01:6 into your consideration, at an early period of the Session, the present state of the agriculturists and the labouring cldsses,and to adopt such measures for their relief as to your Honourable House shall seem meet."—Times. The Courrier Francais of Friday last has a strange article on the subject of a Commission given by the Comite-Directeur of Paris to a sub-committee, fin- the purpose of attending ex clthively to the labours necessary for the regene ration of different countries in Europe. "Among the most active members of this new committee (says the Journalist), are named a Noble Lord (Palmerston), formerly Minister of War, well known on account of his relations with a diplo matic lady, whose reputation extends from Arch angel to London (the Counters of Lievcn, we presume) ; a Member of the House of Com mons, who has long busied himself with the means of deporting at once to Botany Bay, or elsewhere, all the poor of the three kingdoms (Mr. W. Horton, we suppose), and a merchant, also a Member of the House of Commons, better known, perhaps, at St. Petersburgh and at Dover, than in the Chamber of which he forms a part (Mr. Pawlett Thomson, we sup pose). The Directing Committee have added to these gentlemen a fourth personage, one of those Whig-errants, who pass a great part of their lives in running over the different countries in Europe in quest of grievances to exhibit against Institutions and Governments, and then return to England to publish a collection of lies clumsily fabricated, respecting what they have seen, and what they have not seen. The Whig-errant of whom the Directing Committee have made choice on this occasion, has already favoured the British with two pamphlets, of which the last is in the shape of a letter to Lord Aberdeen (Mr. Galley Knight)." According to this statement, a Memoire, drawn up with great talent, has been communicated to the new associates, in which are exposed all the. inconveniences result. ing to the cause of Continental Liberalism from the regime to which England is subject, and our four Englishmen are given to understand that their time might be better employed, than in coming to the Continent to make a parade of their liberalism, and indulge in lamentation over the fate of the llerolutioinsts,whom the tyranny of Goverments prevents from obtaining their ends, while they allow the regime of privileges and abuses to subsist tranquilly in England. " flow is it possible (says the Memoire) to do anything solid in favour of liberty and huma nity, in presence of an Aristocracy, masters of one of the most powerful nations of Europe ?" The statement then proceeds thus :—" Have not the late times more particularly proved to what a degree the existence of that Aristocracy, and the institutions which it cherishes, may become fatal to our civil and religious liberties ? Have they not spoken of establishing in France an Aristocracy on the model of that of England; and have we not been on the point of seeinz the realization of that dreadful calamity ? Did we not, for an instant, conceive we saw the arri val in our fine country ofthe Justices of Peace of his Britannic Majesty, with their tread-mills, and their almost unlimited powers, primogeniture, Game Laws,sinecures, pluralities, rotten boroughs, and the three hundred Deputies, named by the High Aristocracy, without the intervention of the people ? Have we not dreaded that they would come to impose on us the Magistracy which sets itself above public opinion, which laughs at it, because it says that opinion is contrary to its experience ; the Juries who find men like Car- tile and Taylor guilty ? lor, what have these men done more than our own journalists and litterateurs do with impunity ? Brethren and friends, what would have become of our dear as sociates of the Courrier Francais, if they had had to do with English Magistrates and Juries ? Undoubtedly, they would have passed the rest of their days in the most unhealthy prison of England." The Memoire concludes with assur ing our four Englishmen, that they are well con vinced they yield not to their brethren of the Continent in hatred of loyalty, Aristocracy, and the abuses that flow from them ; but they exhort them to give a striking proof of their sentiments in this respect, in returning with all speed to London, to labour according to the instructions of the head Committee for the regeneration of England. They observe to them, " that there is a great necessity for this, for (says the Me moire), whenever our enemies receive a check, they cast their eyes towards England, and ac quire a new strength, on seeing what passes in that country. That country (adds the Memoire), which, from an unfortunate prejudice, has been re garded as the classic land of liberty, is now become the type of our Jesuits, and our Absolutists. Let it be regenerated quickly. It is said this Me moire very embarrassed our four Englishmen, and especially the author of the Letter to Lord Aberdeen. However this may be, we shall not fail to lay before our readers from time to time, an account of the operations of the four person ages who have thus become the hope of the Re volutionists of the Continent." The above has probably no other foundation than the imagina tion of the writer. But he this as it may, there is a great deal of truth in the sarcasm levelled at the Liberals of this country, who can find time for attention to the abuses of every nation in every quarter of the globe, except their own. Flattered with the idea that the House of Com mons is a floor on which the people of every - pZ?'- _....,... l t ,, ,:::,.., _.% _•„.......„.„,,, 4 4 ....._.„.... _, ~,.._.,...„,,,„.....•,...,: N..,...„0„,,.,....N. Juntry niv thrash then coro, thc_TILW *.,,,* inie in idle discus , ions, which ant hdre,4,t4rac tical result, ‘vhich is intini;elv too li::le 161 - th , wants of air own people. Fore:gtwls lau 4 h at us for this dispw-ition to combat windinilA, :I; well they may. To a rellecting:»;n:l, notlung gprears so astonishing, as that in a country , o far advanced in the arts of civiliz lion as Eng land, in which there i,l so large a cl.iss p,s,,e.s,cd ~~ of the means of existing without Ishour, there should be so few men who cornbine.with suffi cient penetration to discern the rsal nature ana causes of the abuses for which the peopla suffas the virtue and firmness to make war against them with effect. Ten men, perhaps the all of tips: nunsher, possessed of clear heads and resolute hearts, and perseveranca in the House of Com mons, would produce an effect, the force of which is almost incalcillable, on the nubile mind, and, through that mind, on the House. But, with the exception of one, or, at most, two individuals, there is no man in the HoliSe rif Commons whose heart is on the right side, who has courage to ham!: the oppo nents of' the people and their interests fairly in the face—to grapple earnest// with arguments —to disregard the expression of titlrisces around him, the sneers, and the jokes mvinapactd loud enough to be heard by him. This coral:lice may be accounted f a.. The Members o' the House of Commons belong to a caste which hag little sympathy with the people ; and even those Members whose inclinations are not corrupt (a very small number necessarily in a country where the ratnifications of Church and State are so extensive) have constantly present, when speak ing, the effect what they say will have on their reception in circles, the good opinion of which a has tut more indirectly, influence through good opinion of the body cf the Fleop • \I , hen a Liberal leaves the Chamber ,7 1. DePtni"t he t theirhei rhappiness, families, appess than(l Y i the retires to a circle animated by the ses:.'th!eiits to which he gave expression in that assembi;,. a nd which cheers and encourages him to the resolute discharge of his deity. When Bruce and Black and the other Presbyterian Divines, who, under the leading of Andrew Melville, fought so suc cessfully the good tight against King James, be fore his accession to the Crown of Enrland, re tired from those noble conflicts of wind"; we have so spirited accounts in Calderwood and l\l'Cric, they did not retire to the society of these against whom they combated. Man cannot exist with out sympathy, and he is necesstri?y most intim!. enced by the circles in which he daily moves. Were a man even to be indifFa rent himself to the notions of the so ciety by which he is immediately sur rounded, it seldom happens that his wife, his sons and daughters, arc equally indifferent. Bishop Watson states it as a reason why, as long as the inequality of Bishoprics prevails, the Bishops must be the creatures of the Ministry for the time, that if a Bishop were to be himself indifferent to wealth, his wile would seldom pos sess the same indifference, and he is thus forced to cringe and crawl, that his wife may be gratified with a splendid establishment. Thus we find numerous powerful motives constantly acting on the resolution of members, and few of die stimu lants by which men are incited to distinguish thqm- selves. We remember the time when Sir Francis Burdett seemed to be alone in the House of Commons. He is now popular in that assem bly, because he has found out the art of speak ing in unison with his audience. All this dis position to obtain a little distinction by looking abroad for grievances to evade combating in earliest at home, to take up with insignificant nostrums to tinker the little holes in the political kettle, may be accounted for on obvious princla pies. The people of England are represented by men belonging to the wealthy and aristocratic: elass. Till by some accident a few men belong ing to and identified with the people, whose soul is in their work, shall find their way into Par liament, the fight will always be a sham fight. Human nature is the same everywhere. Courage and energy are to be found in England as well as in other countries ; but courage and energy do not easily find their way into the House of Commons. It was very well to call England the classic land of liberty when England was time only country in Europe in which there was any scope for the expression of opinion ; but though England has many institutions the want of which is sensibly felt in all parts of the Continent, it is not the less true that the spirit of several parts of the Continent is now much 'better than in England, and under the influence of that spirit better institutions will, no doubt, in time be ob tained. Under the influence of that spirit at present the worst institutions are rendered harm less. In this country Juries are too often found actuated by the most slavish spirit, and ready to yield everything to power. In France the Judges, a class who in this country, with hardly an exception, have been hostile to the cause of the people, are seen vindicating the liberty of discussion, and defending Journalists against constructions of libel law which would put an end to all censure of men in power. The reason is that in France there is no Aristocracy, while in England the Aristocracy is everything, Judges in France identify themselves with thin nation. But, as is observed by the Journal des Debats of Thursday last, this conduct, " so honourable to the character of the First President of the Cour Royale, is only an additional reason in favour of a jury. Men pass away ; institu tions alone remain." But it a Jury would, even with the prevailing spirit in France, be an advan tage, we fear that we must wait a long time in England before it would be advantageous to rely rather on a Judge than on a Jury. When we shall have a Government identified with the people, we shall have Judges on whose political honesty reliance may be placed ; which we may expect, from a superiority to the vulgar prejudices which sometimes influence Juries too much. Till that time we should be sorry to have no other security for our liberties than the French now possess. We are quite aware that the example of England, whatever good it might once have encouraged, can only operate now detrimentally to the Continent. Our unpaid Magistracy, our primogeniture, our Church and State abuses—the yearnings of our aristocracy ; all tend to the encouragement of the Govern ments abroad in their encroachments on the . people. The people of the Continent seem, however, to be now fully alive to the extent of the hyptcrisy which prevails in this country. In a Letter of Jefferson, dated June 11, 1823, we have a striking instance of the discernment with which he appreciated the hypocritical conduct of this country towards the foreign Liberals. 't That England is playing false with Spain (he says) cannot ,be doubted. The Government is looking one way and rowing another. It is curious to look back a little on past events. During the ascendancy of Bonaparte, the word among the herd of Kings was sauve qui pent: Each shifted for himself, and left his brethren to squander and do the same as they could.- After EP' )ar• ers, the Acs. lace ,011' the w ill the the stem 7ge 0 h atifl. col' 3d to tai: Dela have liver / , al'j an t° viiich oore i that de' t bl tilos ( r, ati I NO a " ; r tro th c