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es the•one who " carries the law to the fullest extent." Really this is hardly fair towards Mr. Chambers. The worthy Magistrate feels as he ought respecting the shedding of blood ; but he is too prudent a tactician to take the lion by the beard. When a man wishes to set off his own virtue by the expression of a becoming indignation against transgression, if he be prudent, he will wait till he catches some unfortunate devil for whom there are few people to interest themselves, when his indignation will not be thrown away, because it will be counteracted by no sympathy. If a great man had been in the situation of the unfortunate individual to whom Mr. Chambers addressed his very delicate recommendation, the indignation against wrong-doing which the worthy Magistrate sought to produce might have yielded to an indignation against his own want of feeling; and this, so far from tending to dis courage duelling, would have quite a contrary tendency. We remember, in the case of Faunt leroy, what a cry there was against the Magis• trate who recommended him to read his Bible. The recommendation would not have been blamed in the case of a poor man, but in the case ofone who had had hundreds of thousands through his hands it was felt to be insufferable. Mr. Chambers has displayed more tact. He knoss that the feel ing of the public against evil-doing is sure not to be led astray when there are no adventitious cir cumstances in the case ; and that a better time cannot be chosen for obtaining a good precedent than where there is nothing to prevent all men entertaining a becoming indignation against the practice he wishes to put down. In England there is never much danger of any improper sym pathy when there is poverty in the case. Good men will, therefore, know how to appreciate the discretion with which Mr. Chambers has chosen his time for launching out into becoming severity ,against the crime of duelling. There Cannot be a better rule for combating malpractices than waiting till some powerless individual is caught in them. Mr. Chambers is, evidently, both a pious and a prudent man ; and virtue never appears to such advanta g e as when in union with knowledge of the world, for then it shines forth at the time when it can be duly appreciated.—Morn. Chron. There is something both melancholy and amusing in the manner in which the INhie. ' triots treat the subj ect of national distress. They whine the complaints which they cannot altoge eier suppress, in language at the same time meek and dolorous. Their patience and their rest lessness seem to be severely tried between the opposite influences of servility and suffering. Whig landlords must feel the fall of rents as well as others ; but, though there are the deep shadows of misery over the fore-ground of the picture, there is the golden light of office in the distance. The long faces and empty pockets of their agricultural tenantry would make them very impatient, if not absolutely seditious, but that, while the cultivators of the land are fast falling into insolvency and ruin, their patriotic landlords have a vision of the 6' loaves and fishes" in prospect. Hence the weak and miserable compromise which we ob serve at their public meetings between obsequious silence and energetic remonstrance. They who, if a single wheel, or pulley, or screw, in the great machine of State went out of order, used so thunder forth their indignation against Go vernment in the boldest tropes and figures of a glowing eloquence, now can see the whole frame of society shaken and disarranged without rais ing a more startling , voice than that of the meta morphosed " Snip, in the play, who considered it the most rare of his " savage" acccomplish ments that he could " roar a lion as mild as any sucking dove." The speeches of Mr. Coke and some others at the Norfolk Meeting, of which we gave a report yesterday, exemplify this spirit of gentle complaint and- amiable discontent which 6 , Whiggism ' has put on. No expression discourte ous to a Ministry under whose auspices the country has, somehow or other, fallen into a state of unparalleled affliction and embarassment escaped from one of them—no appeals were heard there to the manly feelings of English men—no calls upon their patriotic energies in defence of a sinking untry—no indignant reprob a tion of measure co s which have broken down the grandeur, exhausted the resources, and crushed the productive industry of the country. AU, as far as the Whigs were concerned, was as &month and mild in expression as if they did not themselves believe the tale of national calamity which their language so feebly portrayed. But though not true to their ancient principles of vehement patriotism and turbulent virtue, the Whigs still dis played their practised " talent" for trickery and manoeuvre. They who were accustomed ardently and incessantly to remind the people of the " sacred right of petitioning," have taken a very decided aversion to - that constitutional mode - of bringing public grievances strongly under the notice of the King and his Ministers. But did they not meet on the present occasion to petition for the repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties? 'They did, and yet they separated without having agreed to any petition !---without having even proposed one ! The fact is, they seem to have been so much alarmed by a threatened petition of Sir Thomas Beevor, which they naturally ez pected IYould not be couched in terms sufficiently guarded and polite for the delicate taste of mo dern Whiggery, that they forgot the great object of their meeting. They exerted themselves to circumvent him, and they outmanoeuvred them iadves—they excluded his petition by a stratagem, and in doing so forgot their own !—Morning Herald. Th e country is every hour becoming more alive to the difficulties which press upon it, and the important measures which must form the subject of discussion in the approaching Session of Parliament. ellready have the freeholders of Lincoln placed their sentiments upon record. Norfolk has followed on the same side. The Magistrates and Grand jury of Kent have re presented their grievances to the Minister. The county of Easex will be in the field immediately, and a requisition for a meeting of the freeholders of Cumberland is in the course of signature. These are but the preliminary movements which forerun a more general expression of public opi nion, and lead to petitions and reir s onstrances from every county, and town, and parish in Eng land. The principal object of these meetings has been to demand a reduction of the taxes, particularly the repeal of the malt and tie ~.;.• taxes. A meeting, however, has been held in Devon:, shire of a very different nature ; for there, where the people drink more cider than beer, the tax upon the latter is less felt ; but, determined to seek relief in some shape er other, they complain, and we believe justly, of the ex cessive pressure of the tithe system, and pray Parliament to revise the law, and mitigate the severe .and contentious exactions of the lay irnpropriatais end tke established clergy. It appears that the object of these different Parties is to obtain a reduction of some of those tase and public burthens which at the present moment press severely on their stinte 1 incomes and reduced profits. But, as far as we can comprehend their resolutio is, the greater number think that a reduction of taxation to the amount of five or six millions would mate rially alleviate the suffering of 'the people. None of them say they will rest satisfied with the repeal of the malt and beer duties. None of them admit they will be content with a revision of the tithe code, and a more equitable and less grind. ing mode of alhnenting the religious establish ments of the country. On the contrary, they candidly admit they have ulterior objects in view. They say they will take what they can get in the meantime—take more another time—be satisfied with a little now, and with more hereafter. They do not concede that it is only this or that tax which ought to be repealed. They declare that a general reduction of taxes must take place. — They do not limit the reduction to three, five, or eight millions, but insist that ten, and even twenty, millions ought to be taken from the taxes—that is to say, from the fund- holders, from the dead weight, from the naval, military, and civil lists, from the sinecure list, and the salaries of mini sters, ambassadors, commissioners, secretaries, and Government clerks of every grade. Now this is what we call speaking out in a clear, au dible, and intelligible tone of voice. The re duction must be of a sweeping and wholesale nature, or no good can result from it. Nibbling, and trifling, and hairsplitting, and begging for farthings and sixpences, can answer no useful purposes. The lopping off of a decayed branch is mere folly and a waste of time. The pruning knife must be applied in a more vigorous man ner, otherwise it would be much better to leave things as they are, and the demerits and oppres sions of the system to Pi ovidence and the re formers of the next generation. What would a reduction of five millions of malt and beer duties do for twenty millions of people struggling with ruin, contending with pauperism and demoraliza tion, and on the very brink of national insol vency ? This relief would be to the country what the supply of water by the New River would he to England, if the Thames and every other river and canal were dried up. The repeal might benefit a few growers of barley, and might enable a few families to drink a few more pints of bad ale or indifferent porter in the course of the year, but as to any thing else it is entirely out of the question. Let us see who are the parties who stand first on the list of those whom the measures of Government have injured.— There are— The corn growers—The wool growers—The miners of iron, copper, and tin—The shipowners—The graziers of every class—The silk-throwsters and 'ilk-weavers—The glove manufacturers—The maltsters and brewers—The cotton-weavers—The blanket-weavers—The fancy-shoe raakers—The ship-builders, and the merchant-sailors and ship-chandlers. These are the leading sufferers, on whom are dependent many thousands in other departments of trade and commerce. The landlord depends upon his tenant, the mason and carpenter on the farmer, the dyer and twister and warper on the weaver, the small shopkeeper and retailer, the tailor, the shoemaker, and the milliner, on the aggregate. Thus the whole nation must participate in the embarrassments of those who compose its leading interests. On the other hand the only parties who can be said to be in a flourishing and happy condition are those who exclusively belong to the consuming and un productive caste. They may be rated as follows: His Majesty's Ministers—His Majesty's Fundholders— His Majesty's Pensioners—His Priajesty's Secretaries and Clerks—His Majesty's Custom-house Officers—His Ma jesty's Excisemen—His Majesty's Lawyers—His Majesty's Soldiers and Sailors—His Majesty's dead weight—His Majesty's free traders—His Majesty's Dignitari,s of the Church— His Majesty's Episcopal Clergy—His Majesty's Dissenting Preachers—The people who distil gin—The people who retail gin—The people who hold mortgages— The people of fixed annuities—The people who sell stolen goods—and the people who keep sponging houses. These all belong to the prosperous classes. One glance at the two orders will show how far five millions of taxes would go to injure the one, and benefit the other. Why, the sacrifice would not purchase a quart of ale per week to the suffering parties. It would not add a pair of blankets to their beds, including the neces sary expense of washing them four times a year. But, besides this, a reduction of taxes would not correct the mischievous effects of a pernicious system. It would not induce the cloth manu facturer to use British in preference to fo reign wool. It would not enable the ship owner to compete with the foreign ship owner. It would not prohibit the introduction of foreign manufactures. It would not protect the farmer against the inundations of Baltic corn. It would not enable the national debtor to pay thirty shillings in the pound to his fa. vourite creditor. In short, without an entire change of the system this paltry reduction would be protluctivel of no good whatever. But, let it be understood, we are not opposed to the reduction nevertheless. On the contrary we rejoice at the efforts now making, and that principally by the Whigs.. The Tories are lite rally doing nothing for themselves or the country. They are attending upon their wives, says the Exeter paper, cherishing their loyalty at home, and leaving the people and their grievances to their old opponents and the Duke of Wellington. We therefore at present look forward to no ame lioratiHg results, but in that change which we hope, or that tremendous crash which we fear. Out of evil sometimes comes good, and we there fore trust to events. It is consolitary to think that while the Minister, like the country, is em barrassed, the people are determined that he shall be embarrassed still more, His revenue is deficient, and they are resolved to render it more so. His Sinking Fund is extinguished, and their object is to make him compound, or do what will be tantainotint to compounding, namely, fund a portion of the dividends, and pay an interest upon his deficiencies.—Morn ing Jou rucif, From the unanimity which has hitherto pre vailed at all the Meeting; which have been held en the subject of the repeal of the Malt and Beer Taxes —from the respectability and in, creasing numbers of these meetings—and the still greater numbers which are announced to be held before the meeting of Parliament, we now begin to entertain a confidential hope that these taxes will be repealed in the ensuing Session ; and assuvedly there are none more impolitic in principle—more ve.:4ious in their collection — more injurious to all cla sses i n their operation, or which press with a more leaden finger on the comforts Of the middling and working classes, All these points were urged with admirable force upon the attention of the meeting of the County of Norfolk, on Saturday last, by several of the speakers, and resolutions passed, embodying their purport, and concluding with a prayer for the repeal of the whole of the duties on maJt. Some of the speakers intro duced no smell portion of extraneous matter into their speeches, and one was for radical reform — another for a change in the currency—and a few for a repeal of the duties on tea, sugar, soap, coals, &c. ; but all agreed that the duties on malt, as abridging the comforts of the poor, and preventing the growth and consumption of barley, ought to be repealed. That his Majesty's Mi nisters will turn a deaf ear to the voice of the country on this subject, we do not believe. The tax on malt produces upwards of three millions and a half of gross revenue to the Exchequer ; and this is a large sum for the Finance Minizter to give up ; but it ought to be recollected on the other hand, that strong promises have been made by the Government to make large reductions in the public expenditure—that the value of the taxes to the Government has been greatly increased by the change in the currency, more especially in its contracts for the purchase of stores, &c.; and, lastly, that the repeal is sought for, not by the people only, but by that powerful body which never lifts up its voice in vain in St. Ste phen's—the landed interest. Let but the latter make a point of carrying the repeal, as they ap pear to be doing, and they are certain of success; while, with regard to another point which was mooted at the meeting, the finding of a substi tute for the tax, that matter may be safely enough left to the sagacity of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before concluding, we must advert to another point on which one of the Honourable Members for the county expressed a strong opinion, and in the most perfect accordance with what we have so repeatedly urged upon the attention of the public —we mean the altered value of money. " For a long period of time, he (Mr. Wodehouse) had entertained," he observed, " the opinion that it was perfect childishness—that it was nugatory and delusive to attempt to enter into a considera tion of the present condition of the country—of the past condition—or probable future condition of the country—without bearing closely in mind a great practical question—namely, the altered value of money. He had always voted," he said, " unJer the persuasion that the Legislature had no adequate conception of the work they took in hand in this respect ;" and we think the time is now come when all but those who stickle for a ridiculous consistency in the opinions of public men, or have been so tho roughly infected with the gold mania that no medicine, however powerful, can rid them of the disease, will agree with him that a more taken act never fussed the Legislature than that which suppressed the small notes, and thereby added to the embarrassments, as well as to the taxation, of the country. The measure is indeed working the will of its advocates in a manner F which they but little anticipated, but which can- I not fail, we think, to produce its repeal in the ensuing Session of Parliament.—Morning Ad ' vertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCII, JAN. 18. EVANS V. KEYMER AND OTHERS. This was an action of trover to recover the value of a bill of exchange for 2,169/. Bs., and 23 chests of indigo. The plaintiff, Mr. Evans, a merchant at Liverpool, in September, 1828, employed Mr. Nevett, a commission agent in London, to purchase for him certain quantities of indigo. Mr. Nevett made two purchases, one of 91 chests, and the other of 111 chests. The former were afterwards put up to auction by Mr. Nevett, at one of the East India Company's sales, where 23 of the chests were bought in by the defendants, Messrs. Keymer and Co., as the brokers of Mr. Nevett. The plaintiff now sought to recover the value of those 23 chests from the defendants; but it appearing that the plaintiff had not paid for the whole of the indigo, and never had possession of any part of it, this part of the case failed in the outset. The facts respecting the bill of exchange drawn by Nevett on, and accepted by the plaintiff, were these :--The bill was originally drawn for the pur pose of covering two other bills which the plaintiff had accepted, in respect of some of the payments for the indigo; but they having been afterwards pro vided for in another way, the bill was allowed to re main in the hands of Nevett, for the purpose of get ting it discounted, in case the plaintiff should re quire a remittance of cash. Nevett being under pe cuniary embarrassment, and in want of a sum sf 28,000/., applied to Messrs. Gower and Co. to ad vance him that sum, on a quantity of indigo, valued at 25,000/. Messrs. Gower required, in addition to the security of the indigo, the note of hand of Nevett, and a guarantee from a third person.— Nevett having applied to the defendants, Messrs. Keymer, for their guarantee, they asked for a counter security from him. He told them that lie held an acceptance of the plaintiff's for 2,1691. Bs. (the bill in question), but he had no authority to part with it ; and had, in fact, agreed not to part with it, without first writing to the plaintiff and re ceiving his consent to do so. The defendants, how ever, took the bill, agreeing not to negociate it, pro vided Nevett paid the note of hand to Gower and Co. Nevett had since becoine a bankrupt. Upon this state of facts, The AT•TORNEY•GENERAL, for the defendants, contended that the plaintiff had no property in the bill, and could not, therefore, maintain trover for it. Lord TENTERDEN said that this was a question of law, upon which he would not at present offer any opinion, but reserve it for the consideration of the Court above, in case the Jury should decide in favour of the plaintiff upon the question of fact, which he should leave to them. His Lordship then put it to the Jury to say whether the defend ants had taken the bill from Nevett with a know ledge that he had no authority from the plaintiff to part with it, telling them that if they decided that question in the affirmative, their verdict must be for the plaintiff: The Jury having found for the plaintiff, Lord TENTERDEN directed the verdict to be en tered for the value of the bill, giving the defend ants liberty to move for a nonsuit, or to reduce the verdict to nominal damages. WALLACE AND OTHERS V. SMALL AND OTHERS. This was an action on a charter•party entered into between the plaintiffs, who were ship-owners, with the defendants, who were merchants of the city of London, on the ship Iris, by which the defendants agreed to load on board that ship at Calcutta, for her homeward voyage, in the usual and customary manner of the port, a full and complete cargo of produce, and to pay for the same according to the current rat e of freight, to be ascertained by taking the average rate paid to vessels of the same class and description loading at Calcutta at the time. The plaintiffs complained, first, that the defendants had not put a full and complete cargo on board, accord ing to the terms of the charter-party; and next, that they had not paid for the freight at the rate stipu lated. The Iris was registered as of 296 tons bar den, and the defendants had put on board of her 280 tons of heavy goods and about 60 tons of light goods. The Jury found for the plaintiffs—Damages, 1,1931. SJ. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 18. PALMER AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES OF WHITE AND METCALF, BANKRUPTS, AGAINST BEESTON AND OTHERS. Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated the plaintiffs' case. This was an action brought to recover the value of certain goods of which it was alleged that the de 7 fendants had improperly obtained possession, under the following circumstances :—ln 1828, NlThite, one of the bankrupts, carried on business as a linew draper, in Lamb's Conduit-street, and in the early part of 1829 he was joined in partnership by Met calf, at Would appear that debts tO 4 copiderahle amount were then owing by the house, in which, up to that period, the business that was carried on had been exclusively (or nearly so) in the retail de partment. After the commencement of the part nership, the wholesale business was added to the re tail, and there was great reason to believe that that mode of dealing had been adopted for the purpose of facilitating the payment of a very considerable debt at that time due to the defendants. la the latter end of June last White and Metcalf stopped payment, and became bankrupts. The equitable principle of law was, that all creditors should be treated alike, but in the present instance that prin tshad been departed from, and it would be proved that the bankrupts and the defendants had arranged their plans in such a way that the defend ants should suffer no loss at all, and that the entire deficiency occasioned by the insolvency of the bank rupts should fall upon the other creditors. He trusted that the Jury would, by their verdict, com pensate the creditors at large for the loss sustained by them in consequence of the defendants' acts. After evidence had been entered into at some length, it being six o'clock, an adjournment took place till to-morrow (this day.) OLD BAILEY, JAN. 18. Shadrach Matter, aged 14, was indicted for steal ing in the dwelling-house of James Jones, 108 yards of silk, value 161. He was found guilty, but recommended to mercy. CHARGE OF RAPE. ...... Edward Nicholas Lade, coal-merchant, aged 29, was indicted for a rape upon the person of Maria Arnaboldi, wife of Lewis Arnaboldi. The prosecutrix, who was gaily dressed, and rather well-looking, deposed as follows :—I am the wife of Lewis Arnaboldi. We reside in Blackfriars-road. I have known the prisoner these five or six years. lie has an office in Broad-street. I had occasion . to go to that office on the 10th of October last, about a bill. I knocked at the door and the prisoner in vited me to walk in. I followed him through a passage to a small yard, where his office is situate. The prisoner invited me into the back office, and having locked the door proceeded to take liberties with me. I screamed; but he said it was no use to scream, for nobody would hear me. I was at the time advanced in pregnancy, and I begged the pri soner to desist in consequence of my situation. The prosecutrix, with much reluctance, and not until after the Judge had repeatedly desired her to speak out, went into a detailed description of the assault. On rising from the floor she desired the prisoner to let her out. He did so, snd she went home and did not tell any one of what had taken place for six nr seven days after, when her husband came from the country. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS was mar ried in January, 1827; but before my marriage I had a child by the prisoner. The child was a twelvemonth old when I was married. I had known the prisoner 10 months before the child was born. When I was near my confinement he took a lodging for me, but he never slept with me there. I never lived with him as his mistress. My husband and he were upon terms of intimacy. My husband took me as he found me. I was a servant. The prisoner paid no money to my husband for marrying me, and for keeping his child. An agreement was entered into, but never fulfilled by the prisoner. By that agreement the prisoner was to give my husband a certain quantity of coals, but he neglected to do so. The Lord Mayor, to whom I applied, refused to grant me a warrant because of the time that had elapsed between the assault and my application. The RECORDER—HOW long after the assault did you go before the Lord Mayor for a warrant? Pro secutrix—About three weeks. Cross•examination resumed—My husband was arrested at the suit of the prisoner, when he came to town. He was arrested twice by the prisoner before I preferred this indictment. The RECORDER—Gentlemen of the Jury,—do you wish this case to proceed? The Jury said not, and instantly acquitted the prisoner. Mr. ADOLPHUS said, had it been necessary he could have shown that there was no lock on the office-door when the alleged assault had been com mitted. The RECORDER told the prosecutrix she had been very ill-advised. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 18. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN. John Morris, Charles Buxton, James Smith, Thomas Hallis, William Parrott, and Elizabeth Bridgeman, were found guilty of uttering counter feit half-crowns and shillings. It appeared that the prisoners had acted in con cert, and were extensiv-ly engaged in circulating base money. Morris was sentenced to two years' imprison ment, Buxton to one year, and the others to six months each, and all of them to hard labour during their respective periods of imprisonment; and after wards to find sureties for their future good behaviour. ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL. John Stevenson was put to the bar, charged with assaulting his wife with intent to kill her. He was:also, in a second count, charged with a common assault. Mr. DUNBAIt stated the case to the Jury, after which Mr: ALLEY, for the prisoner, said, that he (the prisoner) was extremely sorry for what he had done. He had acted under a strong, though perhaps a mis taken feeling of jealousy, but he was now disposed to make every reparation in his power. It was at length agreed that the prisoner should withdraw his plea of not guilty, and plead guilty, a i ter into recognizances, himself in 2001., and 'ties in 100/. each, to keep the peace towards ae, a nd to give 48 hours' notice of the suretieit.-, The Court was occupied for the reatif the day, till five o'clock, in hearing cases of petty larcency of no interest; after which it adjourned to the 28th inst. SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 18. ficierit. THE EPSOM GRAND STAND. The hearing of this appeal seemed to have ex cited considerable interest amongst the residents of the county, a great number of whom were present during the trial. It was an appeal against a rate for the poor, made by the overseers of the parish of Epsom, against the trustees of the Epsom Grand Stand on the race- course. Mr. TIIESIGER appeared for the appellants, and the question for the Court to determine was, whe ther an assessment upon a rental of 5001. per annum should be enforced upon the Grand Stand on Epsom Race-course. The Learned Counsel then proposed, for the purpose of preventing litigation, to refer the case to the award of Mr. Latvson, the Cleat of the County. Mr. JEMMETT would take the decision of the Mr. THESIGEit said the trustees had been at a very heavy expense in erecting the Grand Stand in the parish of Epsom, and in May last went to the expense of 1961. in fitting and building it up for• the temporary accommodation of the public at the races, but the receipts were not any thing like sufficient to reimburse them the money they had laid out, yet the p►risk officers had rated the building in its un• finished state at 5001. per annum. In October last the second races took place, and they did not re ceive .5/. admissit n money. It was for the parish to prove that the premises were worth what they rated them in their books. The parish contended that they had a right to enter the premises as inhabited, because the clerk of the contractor slept in an unfi nished room, wh►ch would be appropriated as the ladies' retiring room : no profit had accrued to the trustees; the premises were still in an unfinished state, and for the protection of the property the clerk did sleep on the premises, and he was obl►ged to ascend the room by a ladder, and therefore such a rate was out of all character ; and Mr. Dorking, 1 one of the select vestry, said that the vestry clerk had entered the premises in the parish books merely out of joke. Mr. William Chadwick—Was contractor for the erection of the Ora Id Stand at Epsom. The pre mises were built upon waste land, are 160 feet by 40 feet, and would hold 4,000 persons. The con tract price for the erection was 14,0001. In Oc tober last upwards of 1,000/. extra had been ex pended, and he considers that if it was let as a factory it would not produce more than 100/. per annum. The prices of admission were five shillings for the Oaks stakes, four shillings for the Derby, and three shillings for other days. The premises were not finished, nor would they be until June next. After a long consultation, the Bench decided that an assessment upon 250/. per annum would be suf- TAXES ON NEWSPAPERS. (From the Edinburgh Evening Courant.) The stamp duty on a newspaper amounts to something more than 100 per cent. ; and the duty of 3s. 6d. on each advertisement, amounts to more than 100 per cent. on the small adver tisements, and may, on an average, be about 70 or 80 per cent. This is a very heavy duty, yet we are aware that it can neither be diminished nor repealed, unless it can be shown that such diminution would occasion no loss of revenue. Ministers cannot at present spare any portion of the public income ; they cannot remove taxes on the ground merely that they are oppressive, or that they are injurious to certain branches of in dustry. All taxes have, more or less, this effect ; yet there are no other less exceptionable modes of raising the public revenue. The only ground on which we can claim the diminution of any tax is, that an equal revenue will be drawn from a lower duty, and this is precisely the ground on which we would lay claim to a diminution of the tax on newspapers. We are convinced, as we shall immediately endeavour to show, that a di minution of duty, coupled, as it might be, with a provision, that the price of the newspaper should be lowered in proportion, would ulti mately occasion no loss to the Treasury. The net annual produce of the stamp-duty on news papers in great Britain may be reckoned on an average at 350,0001. per annum. If the duty were reduced to 2d. in place of 4d., and if it were at the same time provided that the news paper proprietors should not be entitled to the low duty, unless they sold their papers at 44-,d. a prodigiously increased demand for news papers might be fairly anticipated. If the demand were to be doubled, no loss would, of course, accrue to the Treasury. But if it were only to increase two-thirds, the annual produce, of the stamp-duty would only be less than the present revenue by 59,0001. But we have to consider, that the increased consumption of pa per, occasioned by the increased demand for newspapers, would augment the produce of the paper duty. According to accounts laid before Parliament, there were printed in 1826, 26,980,552 stamped sheets for newspapers. The paper duty on 27 millions of sheets would amount to 27,000/. ; and two-thirds of increase would of course be 18,0001. of increased reve nue, which would be derived from the addi tional quantity of paper consumed by newspa pers. We might also calculate that the adver tising duty would be improved by this increased circulation. In this way the account would stand thus— Stamp duty . .291,000 Increase of paper duty lB,OOO Do. of advertisement duty 25,000 £334,000 16,000 Loss of revenue 2350,000 It is likely, however, that in the course of a few years the demand for newspapers would in crease with the reduced price in a greater pro portion than two-thirds ; and that in place of a loss, an increase of revenue would be derived from a lower duty. NEW FERRY BOAT. A boat has been put upon a ferry across the Tummel, upon a principle suggested by Mr. James Brown, ship builder in Perth, no less re markable for its simplicity than for its complete adaptation to the purpose required. A chain is fixed to an anchor or rock in the centre of the river, a short distance above the ferry. The lower end of the chain is secured to the boat by what is technically called a Traveller, which tra verses an iron rod fixed across the prow. The boat is regulated in the passage across merely by the rudder, which can be managed by a child. When unmoored, the rudder is turned to one side, and the boat glides, by the force of the current acting upon the rudder, swiftly and steadily to the opposite bank of the river ; and in order to return, the position of the rudder has only to be re versed. This exceedingly simple plan has been adopted with complete success by Mr. Macgre gor, of Fonab, at the suggestion and under the inspection of Mr. Brown. From its simplicity it is liable to few or no accidents ; it works equally well in every state of the river, and by always pre senting the prow of the boat to the current, re lieves it from the pressure of the water, which in rapid streams is found so great an obstruction to the working of ferry boats by chain and wind lass.—Perth Miscellany ofLiterature, Ste. • COWES.—This harbour presents an unusually gay and bustling scene, in consequence of the number of ships assembled owing to the frost, and the early eh s'ng up of the northern ports. So great a number of ships have not been here together for many years, a circumstance which will prove beneficial to the town and neighbourhood. —Hants Advertiser. The inhabitants of Arundel were thrown into some little alarm, last week, by the escape of a large ser pent, in the night, from the custody of its keeper, who exhibited this and other similar animals at that place. It is supposed that the creature took its course towards the river, as no tidings have been hitherto heard of its peregrinations SPLENDID PROJECT.—A'project, we are in formed, is talked of by men of influence and intelligence, for forming a railway from Aberdeen to Bur glread, and to commence running - steam carriages betwixt these places. It is then proposed to establish a communication by means of a steam vessel between the latter place and floss-shire. Should such a project be carried into effect, there will be one continuous communication by steam from London to Ross-shire, through the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin. The steam vessels which already ply betwixt Lon don and Aberdeen make the voyage in two days ; and were a railway constructed between the latter place and llurghead, that additional space would be travelled by steam carriages in a few hours. Then again a steam passage from Burghead to Dunrobin, Ross-shire, would only require two or three hours more; and from thence to John O'Groat's house, the most northern point in Scot land, could be travelled, by the usual means of convey ance, in ten or twelve hours, so that the entire distance from London to John O'Groat's house could be travelled in less than three days ! Let our more northern merchants only imagine to themselves that instead of two or three weeks, as at present, their goods would reach them from London in three days, in the event of the establishment of the different communications iH question ; and then think of the wonders of steam. The above project may appear ridiculous to some of our readers ; but after the wonders we have already witnessed we should not be surprised to live see it carried into effect.--Elgin Courier. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. fot tit 41b. Loaf. There are others wh o sell from ;id . t o 1 34 d. belo w t itat price. PRICE OF SEEDS. Jan. 19. :Tew Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) .425. 525. 9kl Ditto Ditto —B. — L s:ew Foreign Ditto 4ls. 50s dd Ditto ew White Clover 40s. CO6. fine ale. 'lel• fine fire 605.11.5 5 . fine 50a. 85 6 . fine 70e. 866. )1d Ditto Ditl ew Trefoil. Ms. 70s. fine fiOs. 849• 123. 246. fine SOs. 940• old Ditto Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto fine :4 408 185. 225. fine —s. --i• —B. 40s. 445. tine fine - 41 —s. 148. fine --s. trOg• St. Foin . (per Quarter)...—.... —s. -e. I:ye Grass _ 20s. 38s. Pacey Ditto 358. 455. Linseed, for feeding —l. SBs. 528. fine IP. new --a. —. 4 ' new —a. -- 6 ' fine —.13. 408. . _ Ditto, for crushing .. --e. 416. Canary Seed, New —s. 425. Ditto Old —6. —s. White Mustard Seed—(per 8u5he1)—.......06. 6s. 96. Brown Ditto .. —s. 9s. Turnip Seeds, Rounds Green and Red Ditto 425. fine -4• fine —s. 486• —s. fine . Od. fine 14s. fin(. -- 6 • 10s. fine 126• 126. fine 183• Tares, Old —s. 345. 40s. tine Ditto New —s. —B. fine 445. 49,5. Rate Seed, English, fine (per Last) 30/. 32/. -- Foreign 271. J PRICES OF' HOPS.—Jan. I. Kent Pockets 61 6s. 71. 10s. is 91 9s• SessexDitto 61. O. 61. lb. to 71. Os. litirex Ditto _ Fateham Ditto, Fine , ...N." Seconds ............... 61. 6.5. 71. Os. to 91. 0 4 . 01. Oa. 13/. Os. to 151. Os. 01. Oa. 10/. Os to 121. Of. 61. Os. 'IL 7s. to 81. Ha• 51. 15s. 61. 6s. to 61. 10a. 61. Os. '7l. Os. to 81. 00._, Kent 8ag5,,..,. Essex Ditto., Sussex Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES,—Jan. 41. Os. to 01. Kidneys Os. per ton. -- Os. ditto. Ss. ditto. Scotch Reds 41. Os. to 01. Oxitobies anti Shaw —,—. 21. ss. to Si. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Refined 0 Linseed Oil 20 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand,— . ll 0 [tape Cake, per ton 5 Per lb. Batts 50 to 561b.* D tto.—..-60 to 661 b..,. Dressing II Fine Coach I.lides Crop Hides, 25 to 401 b. Ditto to 501 b Ditto - PRICES OF LEATHER. d. to d. Per lb. d. cod. ' 181 191 Tanned Horse Hides,. 16 IS 21 22 Spanish Ditto --........... 19 t e 14 16 Per dozen. 18 19 Calf Skins... 36 to 401 b. 18 g 14 16 Ditto .......... 50 to 701 b. 22 ! ~, .16 18 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 19 18 20 Small Seals, Greenland 20 "_'....' ......--- WHITECHAPEL Hay 506. Od. to SBi. Od. Y M A RKE'f.—Jan. 16. lover Od. to 110 s. vi" 14s, Od. to 40s. Od. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. e, d. to a. d. Per Stone. Ld. to 6. 4 6 Beet Heitors & Steerb3 0 3 4 Ordinary 110 2 6 210 Market Calf 6 0 euct_2:o„ SHEEP SKINS. Wool Od. to OM. Od. I OIL to Se. 64 ' Downs ls. 3d. to Is. 9d. COAL MAU Adair's Reaurn) te.•••••••••••••.* 32 6 East Percy.... 32 0 lleht4urn Main 35 6 35 0 Killingworth 37 3 Ord's liedhugh 2 1 6 Pon top Windsor Shipcot" 33 6 Fatitield • 3 t 0 Walls Fed Bell and C ). 37 0 Ditto Bell Itokson St Co. 37 6 Ditto Bcwicke and Co.—. 38 0 Walls En.l Brown's 37 6 Walls End Boundary 35 0 I .—Jan. 18 Walls End Carr and Co. 355. f,, 4 ' Ditto Hotspur----„.... 37 % onto Northumberland 36 Ditto Peareth 34 Ditto lllddt 11's 39 v n Ditto Russell's ,. 39 Lambton's Primrose 37 .; Walla End 40 a r Walls End Stewart's ‘; Russell's Hetton's W. E. 39 Cowper' 35 Greenwich Hospital,..— 34 u,, Pemberto.iLlangennech 35 Stone 49 0 Holywell Trader 34 v„, Peateth 34 „" Ellison small -_4O 0 Walls End small SO Ditto Clarke and Co. « 36 0 Ditto Crainlington.—.... 30 0 Ditto lleaton 36 6 Ditto Hilda .. 35 6 :Ships at market, 107%---Sti ps sold, 32%-Unsold, 741+ NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MARKET.—Jan. 19. Our farmers' supply of Wheat to-day was small s o " having had little in coastwise during the week, sales We t° ready, at an advance of ls. per quarter. Oats sold moo freely, but at little change on late prices. Little 1 ) 0 been done in B irley during the week, the expected sur plias being still kept out by adverse winds. Malt yeti dull. Fine Rye in demand. Beans and Pease withou t change. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland r2s. 625. .—s. -.41. Norfolk and Suffolk 565. 60s. —s..-4. --- V.erwick and Scotch 565. 58s. --A ..-. 4 . Dantzig -3. -a. .....i. -.11. Rye, Norfolk and Suftola .325. SG,. --8. ....O. -- Foreign --s —I. 3o.s. 31e. Marie - Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 295. Ste - ..-11. parley, - .ig, . ..au 5uff01k...4.. pa Grinding ,nd Feeding 245. 28c -.5... - 4. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. —s. ls4s. 58 0 . Beans, Small —a. —B. Tick .38s. 40s. -4, ....s. Pease, White ...-8. ...-8. Gray -a. .....4 Oats, N,rthumberland, Potatoe ..... ... 21s. 245. ~„„ ...4 ....0. . •-•••.--...-. Feed 16a 19s. —a. ... 41. Foreign —a. --a. ..».. ....g. ..." 41 ' Flour, Fine (per sack) —a —s. 435. 44a. __ ___...... MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—Jan. During the present week, we have had but little doin% in the Curn trade, as the consumers will not purchase t 4:. arrive, and the only water communication open with t i ' s ' place is from Liverpool. This day's market was in s ferently attended by millers or dealers. Fine Wheat or ports last week's rates, if at hand. Grinding Dario' ° dull sale, and Oats are id. per bushel cheaper. Boiling Pease in demand, but Beans sell slowly, at the (1 0 n tions subjoined. The trade in Malt is confined to a ret sl demand by the needy consumers. L cz i t n utr co . ln of an d ~Jottp~ ham Flour is in request, having very little up. Irish' dull sale. Oatmeal remains steady. Customary Bushel Wheat (70113.) a. d. to a. d. s. d. to s. d. English, Old. . 9 6 910 68 4 70 9 e s ------ Fine 810 9 163 7 65 4 ----Second Run 5.....,. 8 6 8 961 2 63 0 Scotch & Welch 8 0 9 U 57 7 64 9 o' g. 4 Irish, Fine Old 8 9 9 363 0 66 7 o'eloo New--- 7 10 8 6 55 4 61 2 -egret pg - Inferior 7 Foreign, Free , S Barley (601 b ) English, Fine 5 Irish - 4 7 6 10 0 4 54 0 7 '72 0, 39 9 41 0 34 10 30 1 33 7 35 5 3 26 1 4 } 7 26 1 0 23 7 0 24 3 6 22 44 0 46 0 f g 0 g 3 5 6 8 4 10 6 4 9 --- Inferior for grinding 4 Oats (451 b.) English, Fine Poland Scotch, Potatoe 3 Irish, for bleating 3 Provender.. 3 Foreign, 2 Pease (Imp. Bush.) Blue, (boilers) 5 6 5 9 White (ditto) Beans (Imp. Qr.) s. d. to s. d. (Per & English, Fine-- 42 0 43 0 Hour, 1 ------ Inferior—. 40 0 41 0 Si Irish, Old 39 0 40 0 • Foreign 36 0 40 0 Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) Nottingham, fine— 41 46 0 Yorkshire 42 0 44 0, Irish anti Inferior—. 38 0 39 0 Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Flour,Notts. Fine 46 0 48 0 Sup. 50 0 51 0 136 6 40 0 _ Sack 2801b5.) a. d. tO Norfolk and 48 luffolk, Fine 47 0 L 4 0 - Yorks., Fine 45 0 n 0 Seconds 42 0 '" 0 - Irish, Fine.. 45 0 fai l 0 Superfine 48 0 45 0 -Heated or stale 45 0 Per load of 2401 b. .0 0 Oatmeal, English.. 28 0 "a 0 -Scotch St Irish 27 0 no Feeding 22 0 4.- , IRISH MARKETS. ....---- Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, ......., per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel , 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. ----- ---- tl , s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. a. (1. as. d. s. d. 1 041 0 ' Cork ....-- 21 6-29 0 11 0--15 0 9 9-11 0 16 0-21 1 6 0- - ' 0 0 Limerick X2lO-23 0 10 0-12 0 89— 9 4 1 , 1 0- 21 0 0 0—' 1 ,,, 0 Waterford 25 0-30 0 12 0-14 6 9 9-11 0 18 0- 2 4 0 10 0—' 1 " 0 . Clonmel 21 0-30 6 11 0-14 6 10 3-14 0 1 0 0- 25 0 12 0-- 16 0 Carlow —.... 26 0-30 0 12 0-19 0 10 0-43 0 90 67212 (±(__/277,-- o Beef, Mutton, Pork, Botte ' per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. .4. .io. --- ,j, d. a d. d. a d. s. d. as. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 8: d. t i o 1 Cork 4f —6 -b —6 18 0.-23 067 063057 0 52 0 li, 0 Limerick— 4 —5 4 6 23 0 - 30 066 0 60 0 54 0 18 0 :, 0 Waterford 21- 5 3 —5l ti 0-26 01 73 668057 0 53 0 ~, 0 Clonmel 3 1 1 —4ll 3 —4l 25 0-2 8 068 060 0 54 0 52 0 ," 0 Carlow.—»4 —5llO —oo2— 0 0170W/ 6 ° s° Ci...' ell, Ktutuwfm—B u tter 66s to 68s. per cwt. ; Wheat 28s. to OIP I per barrel ; Flour 18s. to 335. per bag; Oats 9s. to Us. per d A, rel; Barley 10s. to 12s. ; Beef 4d. to 5%.1. per lb. ; Mutton_,ll to 4d . ; Potatoes s d. per stone; Coals ls. 2d. per cwt.; 158 ,7 ' Pigs :245. to 26s per cwt. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst. at Addington-place, Caraberweo Mts. Green, of a son. : i On the 14th inst. at Oakly-park, Ludlow , L ad y Harr ' e Clive, of a son. Ili On the 17th inst. at Addington - plate , C.inlagure Mrs. Green, of a son. On the 17th inst. at Tottenham-green, Mtn. B.ooiffel Windus, of a daughter. On the 17th inst. in Nottingham-place, the lily of S. Saunders, barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIED. s oe On the 16th inst. at Kensington, Froderick, spaqad of William Taylor, Esq. of Worn,ster-park, Surrey/ of Francis Mary, only child o D. R. Warrington, Eq., Waddon, in the same county. On the ISth inst. at Greenwich, Lieut. Wm. DI R.N., to Caroline, third daughter of the late Ssil° Enderby, Esq. On the 18 th i nst. at St. Martin's in the Fieldr, Mr. of Davis, of Coventry-street, to Miss E. Beverley, niece the late J. Beverley, Esq. DIED of Great Portland-stree. On the 16th inst. at Little Holland-house, Keneine" Miss Vernon. On 17th inst. in Regent-street, Margaret Anne , wife of the Rev. C. Dymoke Willaume , and niec e of o.'" late Right lion. W. Windham. Lately at the house of her brother, Miss Judith Mr!. Curties, the exemplary and beloved sister of Horsley Cue,' ties, Esq., one of his Majesty's Exons of the Royal Yeoln Body Guard, -- ...." 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