The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-03 00:00:00

INAUGURATION OF THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. On Monday the new Lord Mayor of Dublin was sworn in before the Lord Lieutenant, with the usual forms, and in the evening the customary civic dinner was given at the Mansion-house, to about four hundred persons, among whom were the Marquis Wellesley, Lord Gort, Sir H. Vivian, Baron Smith, Dr. Whately, (Archbishop of Dublin) &c. &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, the health of the Marquis Wellesley was proposed, and received with loud applause. His Excellency, in the course of his speech, made the following observations : " I do not mean to disguise the fact that I am most anxious for the applause of my fellow-citizens.—(Hear, hear.) In this place I have upon another occasion ex pressed to you that not honour—not emolument—not power—no, not even glory—could truly touch the heart of a truly honest and patriotic man, unless accompanied by the app'ause of his fellow citizens.—(Loud cheer ing.) All the other advantages that can be bestowed on man lose their value without that accompaniment. This is the opinion I before expressed to you—it is the opi nion lat present entertain. I have been commanded by my benevolent, my gracious, and my generous Sovereign to steer an even and a plain course, in a high region above all hose vain disputes that have distracted this country for so many years.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) That is the principle of my government. It is a principle that I am anxious to, nay, it is a principle that I will maintain.— ( Cheers.) It is the principle upon which I have been deputed to administer the laws, and, acting upon this principle, I shall best fulfil the wishes of my Sovereign.— (len., bear.) In his breast there lives no feeling of animosity, there exists no trace of party spirit, nor of difference with any of his subjects. He receives the loyalty of all in a pure bosom, in a pure, confiding and paternal heart. Differences of the nature I have glanced at I heed not. I am to bury them in oblivion, and to look to nothing but an impartial administration of affairs to a great, a loyal, and a grateful people—(Cheers.) That is the principle which I am to regard as the guiding star by which I am to steer my political course. I hope I shall he able to accomplish the design I have in view. If I speak confidently of my own anticipations, I may, to be -tire, be influenced by that vanity which will often present too flattering a picture of men's own projects; hut I will at least answer for my intentions.—(Cheers.) My only object is the happiness of my country.—(Hear.) At my advanced age what other prospect could I propose to myself ? What petty distinctions could adequately reward me at my advanced age, as I remarked, and I may say without vanity, in the possession of the honours I have acquired, were I to neglect my duty to my country 1 ) (Loud cheers.) No, there are no rewards that could compensate me ; and it is not my intention to neglect it. —(Renewed cheers.) It is my intention assiduously to endeavour to improve the condition and promote the hap piness of this country, and, above all, to forward the interests of my dear native city, which I always regard with pride and honour as the place of my birth—so that at whatever period I may leave these shores I shall be enabled to congratulate myself on a state of affairs better and more prosperous than that which was committed to my care." His Excellency sat down amid loud and very general cheers. At 10 o'clock his Excellency, with several other dis tinguished personages, withdrew, and directly afterwards the Lord Mayor announced as a toast " The glorious, pious, and immortal memory." It was, however, but faintly received. The Bishop of Derry after returning thanks on bis health being drunk, proposed " The oblivion of all religious and political animosities," but through some oversight it was not given from the chair. Other toasts were given, and the evening's hilarity terminated at a late hour. Duchess of Saxe-Wismar passed through this city to-day, without stopping, on her return from Munchengratz. The Grand Duke, her consort, went from Munchengratz to Fischbach, in Silesia, to visit Prince William of Prussia, and intended. on his return, to pass a week at Dresden.-- Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 27. PRICES Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stc.cK 3 pe - Cent. Red. ..... 3 per Cent. Cons. ... 889 d y 4 Ditto 80nd5............ 32 31 pm. 3 per Cent. Ditto Red — lold Annuities .... New 3% per Lent. 96%% New Ditto — 1 Per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 4 per Cent. 1826 - Ex. Bills, £1,000.-- 45 46 pm. Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto ..... .......500 45 46 pm. Jan. 5,186 P — Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859 — , Ditto Commercial.... —pm. Jan. 5, 1860.........1860.........17 i z i 3-16' Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account — Aprils, 1580 ......... ...... India for Account ..... Jan. 5, 1870 — !Cons. for Opening PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds —(Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds 05%; Portuguese Bonds ..... ...74 3'4 Ditto Account 95% 1 / 4 1 Ditto Account 74 % 214 Brazilian Bonds 67 1 / 4 j Reg. Scrip 23 1 ,E 2 , ,,.;3N pm. Ditto Account 6B i Ditto Acc... 23% 3 2%. % pm. Buenos Ayres Bonds — (Prussian Bonds ChDitto Account — ( Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO2 Tian Bonds ........-- ...... ;Russian Bonds, 1822... 1(1 27 Ditto Account — ( Ditto Account 1( 3 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account — Spanish Bonds,lB2l 0 2% y 4 Ditto Bonds, 1824 ...... 23% ' Ditto Account 22 1 / 4 % Ditto Account —; Ditto Bonds, 1823 20% Danish Boma ....... ......... .. —' Ditto Account — Ditto Account — French Rentes, sp. c. —1 —c. Greek 80nd5............. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — —3 per cent....... —f —c. Ditto Account — - Exchange —f —c Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. Dutch, 2.1 p. c 49 1 / 4 Ditto Account — Ditto Account 49 1 / 4 Ditto, 0 per cent — Ditto, sp. c 92 1 14% Ditto Account 35 1 / 4 ' Ditto Account 92 3 4 Neapolitan ErNach Scrip 41.ipm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT ATONE o'cLocr.. Paid. Alten Mining Company £4 Anglo Mex. Min. 4.:0. kiss. at M. pm ) XlllO Bolanoa Mining Company —£lso Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm ) £2O Ditto Nati0na1........... Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 Cata Branca Mining Company l% British Iron Mining , Comnanv £5O Columbian Mining, Co. ilia at 5/. pm.) 51% English /lilting Company 12% General Mining Association Per Share. %Pm. 11% 135 59 43 a sy l 6 1% 2714 12 1 ,‘ 2736 10 .--....-.. ~. Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. £4B Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 11% 5144 13 3 4 16 11V. £1 7 0 IR 54 4r, 21i pm. 36 BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, OCT. I.—The day before yesterday there was a grand dinner at the Palace, to which several Mem bers of the diplomatic body were invited. Pi eparations are making at the Palace of Laeken for the journey which their Alajesties will shortly make to France. M. Mary, who has had his audience of leave of the King to-day, takes with him to Rio de Janeiro all the documents necessary for the conclusion of a commercial treaty between Belgium and Br.zil. As the conclusion of their labour approaches, the secticn of the Chamber of Representatives are more con stantly engaged than ever. The Minister of Finance has called on his agents to furnish him with information which may guide him in the discussion of the motions relative to flax and linen. The Chief Committee of Manufactures and Commerce has also directed its attention to this subject, and has in structed one of its members to mike a report. From the explanation given on Sunday by the Minister of War, we find that all the militia men of the year 1826 and 1827, have been, or are to be, sent home on furlough to the end of this year, at which time it will le seen whether those limited furloughs can ke changed into absolute di-charges. The reserve of 1832, and the class of 1833, will be called out to take the place of the militia of 1826 and 1827, when the latter will receive their absolute discharge. The soldiers of the regiment of infantry who have re. ceived furloughs, dated in July, and which are on the point of expiring, have just been authorised to remain at home till the end of this year. According to the reports which have been transmitted to the Commandant of the city, by the Colonel of the Ist regiment of horse chasseurs, the captains of every com pany have convinced themselves that some of the sabres of the soldiers of that regiment are broken. It is conse quently without reason that soldiers of that corps have been accused of having committed an outrage on Mr. Lvster in the Rue Durole. . Three detachments, amounting together to 125 men, were on their way to Ostend to enlist in the service of Don P, d ro. . . ..,.... ........_ The Austrian Privy Councillor, Count Claw, arrived at the Hague on the 28th ult. BELGIAN FUNDS, OCT. 1. Actual Debt, 121: 2 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 931/ Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 1833, 4 per cent. .--Brussels Papers, Oct. 2. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... '2 minutes after 5. 1 Evening...`23 minutes after 5. trije `kl=4; *Slit* •• • GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, SEPT. 21.—Letters received direct from Con stantinople state that the number of houses consumed by the late fire was only 800, and that the reported insurrec tion was merely a mutiny among the troops, inconsequence of a reduction in their pay from 23 to 15 piastres. They a dded, that open rebellion was prevented by the Sultan's yielding to the wishes of the soldiers, and restoring the former pay. More recent accounts have been received from Constantinople through an indirect channel. Letters from Belgrade assert, on the authority of a Russian courier from the Turkish capital, that a new fire had consumed 2,000 houses, and destroyed all the quarters between the Fanar and Solomoni Zamissi. Among the buildings destroyed are the greater part of the mills which supply the capital with flour. This had caused a temporary want of bread, and increased the distress. It is possible that this fire is the same as that announced by the English steam-vessel which lately arrived at Ancona. The accounts from Belgrade and those from Ancona agree on one point, namely, that the Sultan's life was not safe Gne moment, and that, consequently, he had again applied to the Russian Ambassador for assistance, but that the Ministers of France and England had protested against it. This news has produced an extraordinary sensation on our 'Change. SMY RNA, Auc. I.—The anniversary of July was this year celebrated in that port for this first time. On the morning of the 29th, the schooner Mesange, the only French stills of war in the Roadstead, and all the mer chantmen in this port, were dressed with their flags. At twelve the Mesange fired a salute of twenty-one guns, which was returned by the American and English ships John, Adonis, and Scout, and the Austrian schooner Vigilant. Upon this the Mesange replied with three other salvoes of twenty-one guns each. The captain gave a gland dinner on board the Mesange, and in the evening here was a bull and a display of fireworks. RostE, SEPT. 17.—M. Von Rothschild has been here some days, and the new loan for five millions is finally concluded with bitn—not, however, at 82, as I before announced, but at 80, from which sum the commission is to be deducted. The Government is indebted for these good terms to the competition of two other bankers, M essr s. Va!eulini and Appoll. The establishment of a which a French company wishes to under discount batik, take, has been stopped through some obstacle. Such an establishment, with a sufficient capital and guarantee and ld be of reat eto if the interest were not too high, v this city and the whole country, forit o i u s now awhintßztwitmfp:loisinsig ble to raise money even on the best security, It difficult to obt ai n into the hands of greedy agents. I money on mortgage, as many persons let their m o o s ney th b a e t unemployed in their coffers rather than lend it out; 7 or H per cent, must be paid by any one who absolutely ints money. LEIPZIC, SEPT. 22.—Her Imperial Highness the Grand LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1833. Although no official accounts of the resigna tion of General BOURMoNT and the French officers who are with him have been received through the regular channel, there can, we think, be little doubt that it has taken place, a letter having been received here by a gentleman from his brother in Lisbon, in which the writer states that he had received the account of their resig nation, and of their departure for Spain, from Admiral PARKER, Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL, and the Secretary of the Emperor. We have also seen a letter written on the 25th, in which it is stated that on the preceding day an officer of the Asia bad received a letter from General CLOUET, requesting that a boat might be sent for him, to convey him to the African, as he had quitted the service of MIGUEL, and wished to proceed to Lisbon ; but, subsequently, the General changed his mind, and decided on ac companying BOURMONT into Spain. The fact of the French Charge d'Affaires here not having received any account of this resignation, except as a mere rumour current in Lisbon, when the despatches were made up, is not important, as the circumstance is said to have occurred only on the day before the packet sailed, and could be knowp officially to very few persons. We are sorry to hear that the official accounts of the health of the Duke of PALMELLA are very unfavourable. When the packet sailed, the Duke, although suffering severely from an attack of cholera, was able to receive his friends ; but his physicians would not pronounce him out of danger. The REGENT, although at present acting upon a system opposed, in a great degree, to the policy of the Marquis PALMELLA, is sincerely attached to his late Prime Minister, and is stated to have expressed great concern and anxiety at his illness. CANDIDO DE XAVIER, the Minister of War, was said to be severely afflicted with dropsy ; but it was whispered in Lisbon, that the Duchess of BRAGANZA, who has great influence over the mind of her husband, had represented to him the expediency of dis placing this Minister, and therefore that his ill ness, although not serious, would be made the excuse for his retirement. It is known that, before the Duchess left this country, she had a long conversation with Lord PALMERSTON, in the course of which he probably mentioned the dislike entertained of CANDIDO DE XAVIER by himself and his colleagues. The objections which our Ministers were said to feel towards M. de CARVALHO are, however, in a great measure, removed. M. CARVALIIO, who is now the virtual head of the Portuguese Ministry, is a gentleman of high character and first-rate talents, without any of the intriguing propensities which have distinguished CANDIDO DE XAVIER. Considerable sensation has been created among the merchants trading with Egypt, by a report that the treaty, recently entered into by the Emperor of Russin and the SULTAN, contains two or three articles very prejudicial to the commercial interests of this country. A copy of this treaty has been received, but its con tents have not been suffered to transpire. It is merely stated by those official persons who have read it, that it contains nothing which would warrant the intervention of this country. This opinion, however, comes from a quarter which has frequently manifested great indifference to the continual encroachments of Russia, and to the insults inflicted upon the British character. It cannot, therefore, have much influence over the commercial public. Besides, may there not, whilst the treaty itself is so worded as to give no cause of interference merely for the purpose of resenting indignity, be secret articles respecting which it is the duty of Government to procure information ? The pamphlet published by Mr. GEORGE FARREN, of the Asylum Assurance Office, parading the responsibilities attaching to persons connecting themselves with joint-stock banks, has drawn forth several answers. The thing was not really worth attention, so grossly did it exaggerate bare possibilities into probabilities , and probabilities into certainties. It is a part of the press having taken up and promulgated, we verily believe in sheer ignorance, Mr. FA RREN'S notions, that has occasioned different friends to freedom in the banking trade to come forward in its defence. One of the most unpretending, but at the same time one of the most sensible, publications we have seen upon the subject is a sixpenny pamphlet, entitled " Considerations on Joint Stock Banking, chiefly with Reference to the Situation and Liabilities of Shareholders." The following is a line of argument we have often ourselves followed : " Although in the provincial towns it was at first at. tempted in every shape, and more especially by the bug_ bear of responsibility and legal difficulties, from the n um her of partners, to terrify people from joining thejoint stock banks, the attempt was unsuccessful ; and such will be the case in London. They had befcre them the example of the Banks of Scotland, amounting to thirty, only three of which were or are chartered banks. In se veral others the partners were upwards of 300 in num ber, and in one the number of partners exceeded 1,000. All these partners were jointly and severally liable to the debts oc the bank in which they were partners. They were living under laws for the recovery of debt infinitely more speedy and severe in their operation and execution than those of this country yet these partners, in spite of these dangers and impediments—these Scotchsnen, having justly the character of being excessively prudent and cautious—were seen to join and remain gladly in these banks, and would not part with their shares, however horrible and distressing the impediments and dangers sur rounding them, without being paid a handsome premium for every share they possessed. No anxiety was displayed, to use the language of the most absurd of those who have attacked joint stock banks, to make " their bargain a gift" to others, nor is such anxiety now to be found. Surrounded with every impediment, and difficulty, and danger, and respon sibility, with which the public of London are now being attempted to be scared, as attaching to shareholders in new joint stock banks, the subscribers to these joint stock banks in Scotland, and also the subscribers of the joint stock banks of England, established beyond sixty five miles from London, are found to be so callous ..-n1 insensible to the horrors of their situation, that they cling to it, and will not accept for their shares one penny less than the premium eagerly offered for them in the market." This is followed by so plain and sensible an exposition of the real practical working of the array of liabilities, with which Mr. FARREN endeavoured to alarm such of his readers as were ignorant of every thing beyond the sound of Bow bells, that we cannot forbear quoting it. Our anonymous friend says— " The subscribers to the existing joint stock banks in England and Scotland not chartered, and the subscribers, to the provincial joint stock bank of Ireland are all in the same situation. Each and every of them are jointly and severally liable to the debts of the bank i❑ which he is a proprietor—each and every of them is liable to the legal proceedings, the judgments, the writs of execution, and the seizures now detailed in such fearful colours to the London public. These then have passed through the great ordeal. They are now deep in it. Ask them how much they have suffered in mind or pocket from being such shareholders. Ask them how often they have been troubled with writs of execution—how much they live in dread of such wt its. Ask them to " make their shares a gift" to any body requiring them. Ask them to part with these even without the premium they bear in the market. Is it necessary t o suggest what the answer would be to such inquiries? If any man is ignorant what they would be, let him put these questions to his neighbour who is in the unhappy situation of being a shareholder in a prosperous joint stock bank, and to that neighbour and the pleasure of a personal conference is the inquirer left. The case may be even pushed to the ridiculous extreme of asking a proprietor of the Bank of England to give his stock away as a gift, or at a less price than 2121. and an eighth, because he is personally liable after the capital has been exhausted, to his proportionate share, according to the amount of stock he holds, of the deficiency in the capital as realized to meet the debts, and liable to an action at law for the recovery of the amount. " This is in truth the situation of a Bank of England Proprietor, although the Company is chartered, and to prevent any doubt upon the subject the sections of the Acts of Parliament which bring this liability upon each Proprietor are subjoined. " From the perusal of these sections it will be seen that the situation of such Bank of England Proprietor, in point of liability, is almost and altogether the situation of the shareholder in a joint stock bank. " Whether the joint stock bank act with or without an Act of Parliament, the parties sued for debts due by the Bank are in the one case public officers, and in the other case the Trustees with whom the contract is made, and under which the debt arises. " After a judgment has been obtained against a hank, it pays its debt just like any other person or partnership._ satisfied with the law's decision, and which of necessity must be obeyed. This payment is made against whom soever, connected with the bank, whether its public officer or its trustee, the judgment has been obtained. It is from the singular process that the bank pays its judgment debts, that the shareholders are never troubled with the sight of a writ of execution. Beyond this, the hank acts prudently. It is under good management—not one head, but many, guide it; and after consideration by each and all, the beet by c immon agreement is in every case done. Of few things they are so careful, end so properly careful, as avoiding law, especially where they are defendants, and the consequence is, that in actual practice the ju.iginents at law against such a bank may be one in number in the course of a year; and then only, if having gone to law as defendants, they be declared to be maintaining an incorrect opinion. There is, therefore, little chance of any judg ments against a bank, and no chance at all of writs of execution. Shareholders have found this to' be the situation of matters in joint stock banks, and they live in great comfort, and safety, and happiness under it, yer,rly receiving a good dividend on their money invested. The path and the example of other banks is before every new bank, and can and will be followed ; and every subscriber in such new bank will, in respect of his responsibility, be precisely in the same situation as the shareholders in other banks, and who hold to their shares with pleasure. " If the contingency does by any means happen that a shareholder pays a debt of the Company, he is repaid out of the capital stock of the Company, and be is by covenant in the deed of settlement indemnified by his brother shareholders, which covenant can be put in force without difficulty. But it is never requisite ; the shareholder is never placed in any such situation ; he hears of nothing more unpleasant from the bank than that his dividend is due ; and if lie be a customer of the bank, he finds in his connexion with it that accommodation in transacting his business, and that satisfaction which a bank under good management and with honest objects invariably affords. A customer can have his deposit when he wants it; the interest even will be added to it ; and if in good credit, and his temporary necessity requires more, he can draw in moderation for the excess he requires. The bank will love plain dealing. It will not shuffle, and quibble, and act with the mind of an ex-attorney. It will be the honest, active servant of the public. " To sum up the matter: just as any partnership of bankers now, with credit to themselves, and to the satis faction of the public, carries o❑ its business, so does and will A joint stock hank. No shareholder will feel impe diment or danger, or uneasiness, neither will a customer, and in the same degree and to th e same extent as joint stock banks have gratified the people of Scotland, the people of Ireland, and the people of England, their share holders and their customers ; and just in the same manner, and to the same extent as they have drawn to themselves great business, so joint stock banks in London most un- PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 30. Bank Stock St. Patrick Insur.(petShare Consols, 3 Der cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 95% National Ditto Ditto, New ... 95% Patriotic Ditto I per Cent. - Hibernian Bank Gov. Deb. 3!•4 percent.... - ;Provincial Ditto ... ...... Royal Canal Stock - Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock - Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent. - Mining Co of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4D. C. - Commercial Buildings Due. i Arrived. Arrived. Due. ......... O America 0 0 Hamburg O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica.. .......... .... 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 I France 0 0 Sweden 1 Guernsev&Jersev.. 0 1 Waterford doubtedly have the strongest reason to expect equal con fidence and favour, and equal success." 1 We shall indeed be much surprised if the London public do not soon become well ac quainted with advantages which have been for some years as familiar to the mind of Lancashire and Yorkshire men as spinning cotton or wool. We see by a note in the pamphlet that, within these few days, THOMAS BROCKLEBANK, GEORGE HORSFALL, and SAMUEL SAND BACH, three of the first merchants of Liver pool, have joined the direction of the joint stock bank in that town. So much for the alarm with which all commercial men ought to regard these establishments. The pressure of the news from Portugal yes terday, and of the Magazines the day before, has prevented us making any observation on the Report of the Agricultural Committee, published in The Sun on Monday. The delay will be productive of the advantage of reducing our remarks to one point. Indeed the report offers but little tangible matter of any kind, the Committee having contented itself with pro ducing a mass of evidence, and recommending caution in any alteration of the laws relating to agriculture. Its members were, for the most part, supporters of what is called the landed interest in contradistinction to every other interest in the country, who, finding that the public were not inclined to tolerate anv further plunder on their parts, have wisely come to the determination of simply endeavouring to preserve their present advantages. Accordingly, they make a great outcry, and finish by recommending that nothing of any consequence be done. The subjects of county rates, and of a commutation of tithes, are to be considered, but the corn laws are not to be touched. " Fluctuations of price," says the Committee, " whether they arise from alte rations in the value of money, or from changes of the corn laws, cannot fail to produce evils in every branch of rural economy." Doubtless, great fluctuations in the price of wheat pro duce evils; but it has been proved to demon stration, that the more free the commerce in any article is, the less will be the fluc tuation in its price. The rule holds good in corn as well as in every thing else ; and the prices of corn have only fluctuated in England as they have done, because the trade in that article has been more shackled than the trade in any other. The Committee, however, boldly say, that it " cannot fail to remark that there has been, coincident with the present system of corn laws, a steadiness in the price of corn of which there has been rarely, if ever, an experience in any former period of equal dura tion ; and as, during the same period, there has been a very considerable difference in seasons, and in the actual amount of corn produced, it is but just to ascribe to the present system a great degree of that stea diness of price which has unquestionably pre vailed." We shall have something to say presently about the steadiness of price which has prevailed under "the present system," but we must stop a minute to examine what, according to the confession of the Committee, is the upshot of " the present system" with regard to the consumer of wheat in this country. The Committee of 1821 declared, "that they were not insensible to the importance of securing this country from a state of dependence on other, and, possibly, hostile countries, for the subsist ence of its population." This niaiseriewas hacked by the assertion that the annual growth of wheat in this country was equal to the consumption. Does " the present system," which the Com mittee of 1833 is so anxious to maintain, pro duce wheat, of home production, equal to the consumption ? Not at all, for they are obliged to acknowledge " that a diminished supply of home-grown corn, with an increasing demand, has rendered this nation now annual ly dependent, for a portion of its supply, on importations from abroad." The amount of the importation of foreign wheat is lower down acknowledged to have been, for the last five years, 1,145,000 quarters annually. This is, in other words, about an eleventh of our con sumption. If our prosperity and population goes on increasing, there is nothing to prevent this eleventh from rising to a half; and then,according to the Committee, we should have nothing better to do than cutting the throats of half the people, in order to prevent dependence upon a foreign supply of corn. This is no exaggeration of their argument ; and we see little difference, politically, between measures which prevent the growth of six or seven millions of people more to help us to bear our taxation, and measures which would then bring down the population to the precise amount which our own corn monopolists could feed at a high price. But let us see what further blessing "the present system" may possibly have in store for us. Mr. JACOB, whose evi dence is particularly referred to, quoted, and on this point approved of, is asked as follows : " You say that in 1816, preceding the had harvest of that year, you think there were six months' consumption in store, and recently not more than one month ; sup posing the harvest of 1816 was to come over again, from whence do you contemplate the supply 2--It could not he supplied from all the world. My opinion is, that if we were to diminish the growth of English wheat by one tenth part of that now produced, we should not be in a safe state in case of a deficient harvest, for all the world could not make up the deficiency. We are now about four weeks in the year deficient in our growth on the average ; last year the harvest was one month earlier than the year previous, so that we were enabled to get to the end of the year. The harvest of 1832 ought to supply thirteen months, and I dare say it will do so ; but if we have a deficient harvest, and the next harvest gives us but eleven months' supply, and owing to bid weather it be deficient one-tenth more, there would then be such a deficiency as all the world could not easily supply, at any price, for wheat is not the food of man in any other country to the same extent as in England." .• Yet the Committee has afterwards the impu dence to pass the following eulogy upon the present system : Th e political considerations which weighed with the Committee of 1821 remain unchanged; and if it ha mgt prudent to run the risk of rendering the dense pop&attion of these islands in a great degree dependant on the supply of bread-corn from abroad, the protection now given to corn the growth of the United Kingdom may be justl3i regarded as an insurance against famine, and against the danger of that reliance on foreign countries for the staff-' of life, which might be found inconsistent with the safety and permanent interests of the people, and ultimately fatal to our national independence." • We have been led so far from our origin:ol path by the manifold absurdities in whioth the " supporters of the land" have involved ' themselves with regard to the public, that we have at present barely time or space to notice the doltish obstinacy with which the monopo lists cling to the idea that they obtain steadi ness of price by restrictions on importation. The Committee talk of the " steadiness of price which has unquestionably prevailed" since the esta blishment of " the present system," but almost in the same breath acknowledge that it has, within the last five years, fluctuated from 765. 7d. to Ms. 3d. per quarter. A pretty steadiness of price, truly ! And how the fluctuation would be diminished by the oc currence of the contingency which Mr. JACOB evidently contemplates as probable, namely, a deficiency of supply which all the world could not meet, is a mystery the Committee alone is competent to solve. The fact is, that Earl FITZWILLIANI, Mr. MUNDELL, and every other man, competent by reflection and understanding to write upon the subject, have proved, beyond a doubt, that the least possible amount of fluctuation is obtained by freedom of trade, and by that alone. Indeed many, even of the agricultural classes, have discovered to their cost, that the Duke of WELLINGTON'S corn law does not protect them, any more than pre ceding corn laws had done. We open, at hazard, the mass of printed petitions now lying before us, presented last session, and almost the first one that meets our eye contains the following sentence : " Your petitioners beg to state, that in the past Summers of the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, they experienced the most lamentable and ruinous seasons, by which they suffered the loss of all their sheep and many of their cattle, their best grasses having been swept off by the floods ; their corn perished in its husks, and what was taken, by the greatest skill and labour, fetched only ruinous prices, by reason of the fluctuating nature of the present Corn Laws." The petitioners are farmers of King ton Magna cum Nyland, in the county of Dorset, and there can be little doubt that they want Corn Laws which would allow them to obtain a starvation price. The (lay for that has, however, gone, and the next best thing that can be done for them, as well as the public, is to pro duce steadiness of price, by freedom of impor tation. German PaperQ, on the authority of accounts from Belgrade and Ancona, mention that the SULTAN'S life was not safe an instant, and that he had applied again to the Russian Ambassa dor for assistance, which the French and English Ministers had protested against. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Sept. 27, 1833, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and l'owns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat—. 535. Od. Oate -20 s. 2d 1 Beans...—. 383. 3d. Barley --.305. 8d 1 Rye 358. 8d 'Pease— 395. 4d. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat 545. 4(1.1 Oats -19 s. 9d. 375. sd. 8ar1ey..........298. OM Rye --. 345. I i Pease--..... 375. sd. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Bd.l Oats 18s. 3d.1 14s. Od. Barley-- 18s. 4d.1 Rye 18s. 3d4Pea5e............ 14s. (.Id. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 38 Trusses.) CU MBERLAND. Supply moderate, trade rather dull, and prices as last quoted. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 3 15 4 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 15 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 5 4 10 Clover Hay 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw £1 6to .£1 8 I Wheat Straw... 1 10 1 13 SMITHFIELD. :Supply good, trade dull, and prices barely stationary. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Ilay 43 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 3 15 4 10 Useful Old Ditto ' 3 15 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Eye-grass Hay 4 5 4 10 Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs s... Generally Oat Straw... £1 6ta -£1 81 Wheat Straw 1 E 1 10 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the French mail this morning we have accounts from Paris, by which it appears that they were in great alarm there, as well as at Marseilles, on account of an expected landing of the Duchess of Berry, and a great movement among the Legitimatists ; in consequence of which the Commandant of that department wrote to the Mayor of Toulon, to make preparations, and to call out the National Guards of that town. The troops of the line were also on the alert, and cantoned near Hyeres. The police were vigilant, and several ships of war were sta tioned on the coast. Marseilles was also in a state of great agitation. An express was received from Marseilles of the 24th inst., stating that an affair had taken place between the Patriots and the Carlists on the Place of St. Louis. A strong detachment of the troops of the line had proceeded there to prevent disturbances. The Aviso of Toulon states that 1,800 muskets, with six pieces of cannon, and 500 cases of powder and shot, had been landed at Massa. New Brunswick Papers to the 25th August, have been received at the North and South American Coffee• House. They do not contain any news worth giving. THE FUNDS. The lettrrs by the African steamer, of the 24th ult., from Lisbon., have been delivered this morning, and con firm the information already published of the resignation of General L'ourmont, and the other French officers. Also stating as a positive fact, that Admiral Parker's barges were sent to Villa Franca, to convey them on board the English ships of war. The reported attack on Lisbon, on the 14th ult., now turns out to be of no importance, Lisbon being now secure from all furthr::r attempts. On the part of Don Miguel's army, vre must draw our attention to the future proceedings and operations of his still existing forces under his new commander. Even if half his army has deserted him, he will still remain with a sufficient force to prowl over the interior of the country, and do much mischief by raising contributions and laying waste the villages ; after which he can gain the mountains, and there maintain a civil war for some: time to come ; but we are of another opinion, —that, on ,finding all his exertions have failed in re conqu-ring his capital, he will make the best bargain he can with his brother, accept of a liberal annuity, and retire from the field. Console opened' at BSil / for account—little doing. Portuguese Scrip 'has been dune at 234 ; it is now 22/ premium. HALF-PAS T ONE. We have seen ;'a lett'r from Lisbon, of the 24th ult., to one of the first commercial houses in the City, as follows : —" There is ng doubt that all the French officers have withdrawn fro mi the service of Don Miguel ; but the cause is not as yet ascertained. Don Miguers cause becomes daily more hopeless. Another lett.er states that Don Miguel was at the palace of Ajuda, to witness the reception of Donna Maria in the Tagus. A Greek Ambassador has arrived in London. Consols co , Minue at SS!I for Account Portuguese Scrip has been fluctuating from 234 down to 224; at ;present it is 22f 4 pm. We understand that Don Pedro is plentifully supplied with money by the commercial, houses at Lisbon ; also, that a how se in London, of great credit, has sent to their house at . } Lisbon to supply the Emperor with any amount of mo•aey he may require. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, SSi LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—This grand musical fete opened on Monday last with a splen did ball at the Wellington-rooms, a succession of entertain. ments were to follow, and great preparations were making for the fancy dress ball which will take place to-morrow. The town was full of company, and man y p erso ns of the . greatest distinction Lancashire and the neighbouring counties were sojourning there. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, OCT. 2.—Wind N.E. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Dee steamer, from Chatham. Sailed the Corsair, for the South Seas ; Comet, Middleton, for Madeira ; Appreatiee, Cadenhead, for Jamaica ; Juno, Murbury, for Batavis; acd Bolton, Driver, for Bengal. PLYMOUTH, OCT. I.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived off port the Dunvegan Castle, Duff, from Bengal—sailed th e 11th Mey, St. Helena the 11th August, and Ascension the 17th. FALMOUTH, OCT. I.—Wind S. to S.S.E. DOVER, OCT. 2.—Arrived the Howard, Flor, fr osl New York. PENZANCE, OCT. I.—Arrived off port the Ttionii: Laurie, Langdon, from Van Diemen's Land--sailed the May, and Ascension the 21st August; and Susan, Gill' eg ; from Bengal—sailed the 25th April, Cape the 3d Aug and St. Helena the 17th. JERSEY, SEPT. 30.—Arrived the Tons and Mal' Alexandre, from Honduras. Is GUERNSEY, SEPT. 30.—Arrived the Dolphin, Mesurier, from Rio Janeiro ; and Christy and Jao e ' Lefeuvre, from Labrador. LIVERPOOL, OCT. I.—Arrived the Julia, Barker, fl ()fis New Orleans; Cordova, Owens, from Virginia; Trinid oi racket, Griffiths, and Kingston, White, from Queue ' Off port the Livingston, Cowley, from Bengal ; Intrefl Stewart, and Frankland, Edward, from Demerara; a ° Delaware, M'Michael, from Philadelphia. GREENOCE, SEPT. 30.—Arrived the Janet, 1311 0° , 11 ,! from Honduras ; and Roger Stewart, Kerr, from John's, New Brunswick. LANCASTER, OCT. I.—Arrived the Mexico, Miller. from Archangel. WATERFORD, OCT. I.—Arrived the Velocity, Rowland, and Onondaga, Morgan, from Quebec ; and Rainbc"'' Furness, from Newfoundland. CORK, SEPT. 30.—Arrived the Letitia, Daly, from Jamaica. --- ABERDEEN, SEPT. 30.—Arrived off port the Coli ge ' Anderson, from Jamaica. SHIELDS, OCT. I.—Arrived the Nancy, Paterson, from Quebec ; Ref.rna, Burn, and Black Diamond, Thrif t, from St. Petersburgh. ST. ÜBES, SEPT. 12.—The Argus Lubert, which saile d hence on the 6th inst., for Dunkirk, put back, leakl' The Grecian, Bruce, which sailed on the 14th jo l t. ' for Portland, put back on the 16th, leaky—part of bo t h cargoes discharged. The Mulgrave Castle, Cmanor, from Potiesdire to Hu" , ran on a sand bank in the Humber yesterday mornigi and upset—crew saved. The Prince Leopold, Ha!sail, from the Isle of Mac "° Poulton, is wrecked near the river Wyre—part of the cargo and materials saved. The Wilson, of Bristol, with masts standing, 44 abandoned ; also two Cotk hookers, bearing down for bth were passed on the 28th ult., lat. 50, long. 10, by t be Julia, Barker, arrived here from New Orleans. MIDDLESEX INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS' (THIS DAY.) (Before B. ROTCII, Esq., M.P., and several conntY Magistrates.) This was the day appointed for parish appeals. APPEALS AND MUSIC HOUSES. The CHAIRMAN, on taking his seat, stated that it 1 44 been considered by the Court, that at the next (par ter sessions, as there were many heavy appeals, and, as °.", the adjournment day it had been usual to take 1 0° ' licenses, that it would be for the convenience of all that the music licenses should be taken on the a ppeal del; and the appeals should stand over till the music liceoe were disposed of. Mr. ALLEY objected to this arrangement, on the grout' that it would be great injustice to the country attorneyss o : of whom had consulted him upon cases that would oln-- before the Court from Yorkshire and other distant pa rt ' and who, on their arrival in town, instead of W ig ' ing their cases immediately heard, would be i'' ste' t . rially delayed, in consequence of the arrangeln e° , He wished it to be clearly understood by the Cou, r .l that in the observations he had made be I , i . not look at all to his own convenience. The bar, in 11 1 opinion, were not at liberty to do so; but be thought 11 ' ought to be tate ° least that the convenience of the public into consideration. The CHAIRMAN stated that he thought, in the arrangr,. went he had suggested, he was studying the interest s' the public. He was afraid that he had been too ofteo accused of not attending to the interest of the bar. 0 Mr. ALLEY trusted the Court would not depart fr° its usual course of proceeding. Mr. Anot.runs, while be admitted that the course Pr o ; posed by the Chairman would he productive of g es t , partieir inconvenience to country attorneys, must be a llorveu b i; state, that he could not agree with the observation s ° l. b r Learned Friend Mr. Alley, that the convenience of the with was not to be consulted. He thought it ought, equally W o e A o to 01 that of the public, to be taken into consideration. music licenses, there was a day set apart by the JO' Parliament en which they must be heard. did Mr. ALLEY observed that in what he bad stated be not for one moment intend that the interest of the;t should not be consulted in any arrangement the C if in might make. He had adverted principally to bir o° what he had stated. The greatest inconvenience tv°;, result to country attorneys by the adoption of the suggiiij tion of the Chairman, and he therefore trusted i t ° not ha put in force. The CHAIRMAN observed, that if it was intend7 t t o the said that there would not be time between this and or next sessions to give country attorneys notice, that I li :hi be one reason for making no alteration, but he the°, there would be plenty of time for that purpose. ncier After a desultory conversation, in which Mr. P re- tle gasr, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Alley, and several other B en men of te bar too prt, 00' The C h HAIRMAN k inti a mated that the Court wou' u,, ' ceed in theproceeded usual wa ilo The with parish appeals, IV were totally uninteresting to the public. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, -- cp; f NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOO N Handicap of 15 soya. each. T.Y.C. Mr. Mills's Pincher (Nat) 1 Mr. S. Day's f. by Emilius 9 f. The fdl.owing were not placed :—Mr. Thornhill visor by Emilius, Bst. 71b.; General Grosvenor's Young I d or , Bst. ; Mr. Greville's c. by Bizarre, 7st. 131 b.; an Gray's Sister to Ales, 7st. 101 b. Betting-2 to 1 agst. Mustard (taken), 5 to Pincher (taken), 5 to 1 agst. Abigail (taken), 5 to 1 stio o Twatty (taken), and 5 to 1 agst. Sister to Ales. cleverly by a length. r old " The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sous. each for three yea r ) colts Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. D.I. (19 O bi. Lord Exeter's Sir Robert Colonel Peel's Young Rapid Duke of Rutland's Shylock Mr. Osbaldeston's The Tutor 5 Duke of Grafton's iEgyptus Lord Chesterfield's Dirce Lord Exeter's Cactus 8 e t. Mr. Batson's c. by Gustavus Betting.-2 to 1 agat. Cactus (taken), St° g ,,y10 4 4 Rapid (taken), 5 to I agst. Tutor, 7 to 1 ago t •, - ,. ); (taken), 8 1 agst. Jessy, I() to 1 agat. Sir ft, i r oi r' bi" to 1 agat. Direr, and 20 to 1 agat. /Egyptus. "- length cleverly. iN rgbt' Kingston-House R o o ms , WednesdaY.'":,.. The betting has been bri s k a t th e following pr ice GARDEN STAKES. 2 to 1 on the field. CLEARWELL STAKES. 3 to 1 agst. Amao. DERBY. 17 to 1 agst. Guardian. 17 to 1 agst. Olympic. 1S to 1 agst. Comet. 50 to 1 agst. Sister to Galata (taken) 50 to 1 agst. Amado (taken) The rest as before. OAKS. 15 to 1 agst. 20 to 1 agst. Prudence (taken) 20 to 1 agst. Amado (taken) AO) 25 to 1 agst. Sister to Tuley h (t 25 to 1 agst. Maid of Underley (taken) No change in the others. Entry for the King's Plate (to-morrow) • 01 , Volage, Datura, and Ernest. ' For the Town Plate, Octave, Revelry, ChantillY and Shoveler filly are entered. tte ° POrt ij o tb ° An authentic Narrative of the ed fro ill War, by an English Volunteer just return rdtid.!,ry scene of action, will he commenced, we tit f f iff/ifro; next Saturday's number of the Naval an d to d Gazette. Orders for the Gazette (which , oin so° ) 9l country free of postage) should be itomediatelY „qv, to the newsmen, to prevent disappointtnent. Catherine -street, Strand. TherA • „ tot up as, not' st pa t anl " i t the 4ti eh all i t , ' 1 contz lim s°l id T 1 , I. cc i ; Ti " 4 iBters,' doin g ar t and Pri t e -.T , ls s a 4 rably ' . 4 1)1e tO tr c'e p t)lark, 1 a g et Ors It ' dialogue cl a i "cY B lt 4 yBsi good in :i sva gue ki eoe kne , 7 1 y of i 1 ts si: it hig - - 8 ) in fi ' eeti 'tes ith ° B. I a 57 Prodigy