The Sun. — London, England, 1833-02-11 00:00:00

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Now we have re_ The S nnformed our readers that no papers are sent from 1 4 1)1 . 44 Office direct, but through the regu , ar News-agents. „ ° P e r Course, therefore, for Subscribers to adopt in fu. 4 4, 7 111 be to write to the Agent, whose name and address 'le ' t inted NZ, on the envelope. g a ,; 4 'agent who supplies Captain Luther Watson, R. t he 1 -4 e, Dover Castle, is requested to send to Shorncliff till o.._f March, and afterwards to Dover Castle. - -4(o* villa. LONDON, 11 0 v " 1 : ) AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1833. th e ' n e affairs of Ireland have at length arrested il l attention of Parliament and the country. a ° a te is no q u e s ti o n m ore i m p or t an t, or w hi c h pi r mee Ply involves the best interests of the em ip lar ge . The details of oppression, sutler aNl abuse, exposed by the late debate, are i llf 44 ing, and shed a degree of unrivalled ti,' tt 'y on the past conduct of England towards 1111 haPPy country. Fortunat e ly f or th e ho ,fme of the present Government, and the hopes i lh lhe Irish people, their share of the opprobrium tif tk itt si tiall,--Ireland is the disgrac e f u l l egac y pe t predecessors, predecessors, who have left a duty to be 1 7 4 teti which may be truly termed Herculean. e Pre sent state o f I re l an d , h owever, i s t h e p e : vth of centuries of misrule,—divide et inl et,' has alw a y s b een th e wre t c h e d max i m o f nglish Government; and religion, which cr t to be th e so l ace o f man ki n d,— w hi c h in -1):41es Peace and good-will among men,—has , Tt lade th e sta lki ng -h orse o f a ll spec i es o f N tle al atrocities. The case of Ireland, how i%4' il l this respect, is not singular. History I: 4 l.a eold of the miseries entailed upon man the :believer religion has been mixed up with ta; 44i rs o f government, an d t h at scoun d re l s e xti e t e xisted i n a ll ages , w h o h ave systemat i ca ll y til atil e e d the r e li g i ous f ervour an d pass i ons o f tot t ij o irld ) ill order to further their tyrannical or ThPurposes. ter a system of what has hitherto been t e r ti government i n I re l an d, h as ever b een tic s ' a abo ve d escr i pt i on, — to up h o ld a po li- Iliq l steli gions f ac ti on , a mere f ract i on o f t h e Pk illo P°Pulati on , and to allow them to insult, N t el. ' and oppress the great body of their 14 4 1 Son, --and so long has the s y s tem con kN„to perfect has become it s o p era ti on , so N v r'ete the de gra dation and mi ser y o f th e great 4' ; °f the Irish people, that a sort of servile th e now carried on, and the oppressors share Nets and miseries with the oppressed. th t3 : 3 Pell e d t o p a y ti t h e t o a Ch urc h to whi c h 111 th, at e strangers, the payment enforced by '-oi l i d. 4l° st vexatious and oppressive system that n w ell be devised ma lt rea t e d i ns t ea d l'4hedrr'tected by th e po li ce , re d ress re bY Juries, an d by 'Magistrates, fleet`P ., with few exceptions, even at this day, w holly f rom P ro t es t ants ,—G ran d J ur y t)„ ad e . tha at a t „ o !avow Protestants—is it surprts ''lll4 Population so treated and degraded 'at r e sort to vi o l e n ce a nd revenge or, i, oad, by the recollection of past, and th e dread o f new i n j ur i es , th e y s hould 4444,-11"Inlit violence without any immediate 41 PrOvoca t i on ? I s i t surpr i s i ng th a t b a t % h u a h a population, so treated, any agi prllittr,, I Q find supporters f or t h e repea l o f t h e UghZ 50 y other ch ange h e might venture to 1 • 4 tti 4 1 ) Nil al e , 9, th e i nterest o f t h e E ng li s h Go theP °Reo to a nd Aristocracy has a lways been 411(i tti 4 4 the true interests of the English and th 4 pe People. T o prov id e f or younger sons r. at th e " e nts, it h as a l ways b een t h e i r i nterest tw 4 tiv e Iri,h P rotestant Church, with a compa be.ritY f o • 1 0 of comm un i can t s , s h ou ld h ave revs of, liishops, an d a proportionate num ( e en 'JeanB and s u b or di nates, w i t h enormous Po ttv Plll4tio,:ong from the miseries of a Catholic ;*---it has always been their interest t hat there should be an excuse for keeping up a . large military force in Ireland,since they enjoyed the patronage—the English army has a General for every 250 men, and a force of 25,000 men, kept up in Ireland, would at that average, war rant the making of 100 Generals, besides all the staff and minor appointments, the expense of which the English people must be taxed to pay. Of all the Reforms the public have a right to expect from a Reforming Government and a Reformed Parliament, is a Reform in the sys tem of governing Ireland,—the establishment - of a Government of and for the IRISH NATION— not a Government of and for an Irishfaction,— a Government that will afford protection to ALL, while it enforces the law against ALL, without favour or party distinction. It has long been the practice to confide the office of Irish Secretary to some embryo Statesman, as a first step to other offices, who readily re ceived impressions from those he found in power, who were always some of the Orange men of Ireland, where it is difficult to find a Protestant, who, if a Whig by party, is not a partisan in principle and practice—which, to carry into effect an honest system of Govern ment, would require a Statesman of great ex perience, temper, and judgment—of tried firm ness and unquestionable integrity, and honesty of purpose—whose name would inspire the well intentioned with confidence, and hold the evil-minded of all parties in check—whose elo quence would speak in deeds rather than words, and who would make the King's Government beloved and respected, or, if it must be, feared by all ranks, parties, and factions in the State. We are fully sensible of the difficulties with which Lord GREY'S Government has had to contend—we are equally sensible of the diffi culties that surround the affairs of Ireland—that evils generated by centuries of misrule are not to be cured in a day, but fervently hope the sera of a Reforming Government, and a Reformed Parliament, will prove the dawn of a happier wra for unhappy and misgoverned Ireland. There are one or two of our contemporaries who having been obliged, on the vital question of Reform, to conform, and pretend to advocate the cause of the people, are now revenging them selves for the restraint under which they have been to a certain extent placed for the last year or two, by opposing, with all their power, the de tailed amendments of our institutions, which they think may with safety to themselves be op posed. Of all the small reforms, if we may so call them, which press upon our attention, that which is most urgent, because it would faci litate the progress of all others, is a Re form in the mode of conducting the business of the House of Commons. The plan proposed by Lord ALTHORP did not go the length we are willing to go, but, as we before said, it was worthy of a trial. All those who like things to remain as they are, merely because they have been, and all who have some particular fancy of their own, oppose that plan, and Lord AL THORP'S good nature appears ready to yield the point to their importunities. Now what are the arguments advanced against him ? The Morning Herald has condescended to enter into particulars, and, as usually happens, when it leaves the shelter of safe generalities, the hol lowness of its arguments are sufficiently visible. We should state before quoting them, that the Herald's attack is apparently directed against Mr, O'CONNELL'S plan, but, as Mr. O'CONNELL proposed that the House should only sit on al ternate days, the assertions of our contemporary are even of less effect against his plan than that of Lord ALTHORP. The Herald says that there are three obstacles to performing the public business of the House by day instead of by night : " 1. If Ministers were required to attend in Parliament during the morning, the business of their respective de partments must be wholly neglected. "2. Commercial and professional men must be either absent or neglect their other callings altogether. " 3. Much of the business of Parliament is conducted by Committees, which necessarily sit during the forenoon; and the Members of which (amounting sometimes to some hundreds in a day) must either be absent from the House or neglect the frequently not less important business of the Committees." We will answer these arguments in the order adopted by the Herald :-1. The proposal was, that the House should meet for petitions at twelve o'clock, and for public business at five. If Ministers were able to leave the House of Commons at or before eleven or twelve at night, instead of two, three, and four o'clock in the morning, they would be able to have the same time for rest that they have now, if not more, and yet be attending to their office business by nine or ten in the morning ; and as they do not all attend in the House now during the presenta tion of petitions, neither would they have been required to do so under Lord A LTHORP'S plan ; which only provided that one Cabinet Minister should be present ; so that the greater number of them would have had, not till twelve, but till five o'clock to attend to office business. 2. The same facts and arguments answer the Herald's second position nearly as well as its first. We may add that, supposing they do not answer it at all, it is only of any weight as re gards a few Members, whose business lies in London ; for the mass of the men of business in the House are bankers, merchants, solicitors, manufacturers, and a few barristers from the different great commercial towns and manufac turing districts of the kingdom. We may ob serve, too, with respect both to the first and second objection, that there are few men whose bodily or mental energies will bear being drawn upon for more, at the outside, than from twelve to fourteen hours of the twenty-four. Although, therefore, nominally the present mode of con ducting the public business, which the Herald wishes to perpetuate, may give to all Members from eight or nine in the morning till three or four the next morning, for the despatch of their public and private duties, yet, practically, none have more time for either one or the other than would be given by the plan proposed by Lord ALTHORP. 3. The proposition made to the House left time for the sitting of Committees from nine to twelve, and from three till" five, at neither of which periods would the attendance of Members have been required in the House. If it be said that the work, under either plan, would fall too heavily on a large portion of the House, we answer, as we have answered before, that the House must lengthen its period of sitting from four or five months, to six or seven in the year. It is not to be expected that the vast concerns of our extended empire can be discussed and managed in as short a space of time as when our colonies and foreign possessions were not half as extensive, their population half as numerous, and their interests half as compli cated as they are now. We trust that Lord ALTHORP will yet persevere in urging the fair trial of his plan. Sure we are that he will find himself supported by all the moderate and reason able men in the House, who feel that the nation's interest is that which ought first to be consulted. We are not surprised to hear that the friends of the LORD CHANCELLOR are industriously spreading a report that his Lordship is favour able to the reduction of the taxes on knowledge, and that he is disappointed at the delay which has been thrown in the way of that measure by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. It is very creditable to Lord BROUGHAM to be an advo cate for the repeal of these taxes, but it would have been astonishing if he were otherwise. The inconsistency of opposing the only means by which the diffusion of knowledge can be made general, after having accepted the situation of President of a Society for promoting such diffu sion, would be too glaring for any public cha racter, however destitute of principle ; and in the instance of Lord BROUGHAM, whose public conduct has been marked by a strict regard for principle, such an act of inconsistency would be truly astonishing. The LORD CHANCELLOR having expressed his desire to have these odious taxes reduced, and other Members of the Cabinet having made similar declarations one of their grounds to that public favour which brought them into office—and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER himself ?laving very recently stated that he considered the tax on newspapers a very improper one, the country will necessarily inquire why it is not repealed immediately. The only reason that we have heard assigned for the delay, and that by the way is a reason which, if well-founded, may justify not merely delay in the repeal or reduction of the tax, but its permanent continuance is, that Lord AL THORP is not yet aware whether the financial returns for the year will enable him to make any alteration—thus placing the question not upon the broad basis of public improvement, but on the comparative returns of the different branches of the revenue. Suppose the law as it stands awarded death to every individual who should, in the slightest degree, defraud the Customs. Would Lord ALTHORP, in reply to the loud burst of indignation against so san guinary a law, declare that its repeal must be made conditional on the extent to which the Government might be able to support any probable defalcation in the revenue from the abolition of death punishment ? or, shifting the ground to one of mere economy, what would Lord ALTIIORP say to one of his te nants, who should refuse to pay him the rent of his farm until he had first ascertained that he could spare the amount, without being obliged to lay down a hunter, dismiss his daughter's singing master, or diminish the usual allowance of finery for his lady ? Would not Lord ALTHORP take such a tenant to be one of the most impudent dogs in existence ? And yet, when the public call upon him, in the inte rest of morals and general improvement, to re peal the odious taxes on knowledge, he replies, " Wait, and see whether I can afford it !" that is to say, whether there will be a surplus of revenue to enable him to repeal or reduce this tax, without touching any source of public patronage. With all our respect for Lord ALTItORP, we must tell him that these are not times for such an answer to the loud and universal cry for th e repeal of a burden so directly opposed to the principles of good Government. Let him look at the profligate expenditure in sinecures and pensions—at the enormous salaries paid to Com missioners of Public Boards, and chief clerks i❑ the different offices ; at the outlay for a standing army, consisting of 9,000 more troops than even the Duke of WELLINGTON considered neces sary, and then ask himself whether the nation will be satisfied, when they demand the reduc tion of an abominable tax, with the reply of " Wait till I see whether I can afford it." The Irish Journals are, as was to be expected, full of complaints against the spirit and ten dency of the KING'S Speech, which they look on as a disastrous omen for the future welfare of Ireland. They, however, anticipate great things from the Irish Members in the House. It is stated in the diplomatic circles that Prince TALLEYRAND will leave England sooner than was expected. It is supposed that he will return to France in about two months, and, after having passed a short time at his seat near Blois, pro ceed to Nice, where he will remain during the winter. There is only vague conjecture as to his successor, but the Duke DE CAZES is still spoken of. We have received from Oporto a file of the Constitucional Chronica to the end of January. They are chiefly filled with decrees for official appointments and acts of clemency towards sol diers who had been taken in the act of desertion —a proof that desertion has not been confined entirely to the Miguelites. Private letters state that the Minister of Commerce, Don JOSE DA SILVA CARVALHO had become the director of the Regency Cabinet, and that he and Marshal SOLIGNAC were on terms of perfect intimacy. M. CARVALHO is a gentleman of high political integrity and first-rate talents. Having been distinguished for his anti-aristocratic sentiments, he was for a long time kept out of the counsels of Don PEDRO ; but the Marquis of PALNIELLA) although differing from him in political senti ments to a considerable extent, appreciated his -~---`- talents, and sent for him from England to Oporto, where he was appointed to a post in the Ministry. It is said, but we know not with what degree of truth, that the retirement of the Mar quis of PALMELLA arose from a disagreement with M. CARVALHO and the party by whom he is supported. We direct attention to a communication in another column, headed Tax on Capital, and ,fixed Duty on Corn, which will be found to contain some sensible observations on both these national subjects. As we have ourselves always advocated the propriety of adopting a gra duated property-tax, in place of many other taxes, which are both unjust and oppressive in their principle and operati on , it i s no t ne cessary to enter any further at present into the subject. We regret to hear that the Venerable Ear i FITZWILLIANI died on Saturday last, at Milton, Northamptonshire. This event will oc casion a vacancy in the representation of the northern division of the county of Northampton It will also put off the discussion of the Corn Laws, which Lord MILTON had fixed for the 20th inst., and to the proper advocacy of a repeal of which no Senator is more competent than his Lordship. EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXII. The following striking description of the famous Earl of Peterborough is from an excel lent article in the last Edinburgh Review on the " War of the Succession ": " This man was, if not the greatest, yet assuredly the most extraordinary character of that age ; the King of Sweden himself not excepted. Indeed, Peterborough may be described as a polite, learned, and amorous Charles the Twelfth. His courage had all the French impetuosity. and all the English steadiness. His fertility and activity of mind were almost beyond belief. They appeared in everything that he did—in his campaigns, in his negotia. tions, in his familiar correspondence, in his lightest and most unstudied conversation. He was a kind friend, a generous enemy, and a thorough gentleman. But his splendid talents and virtues were rendered almost useless to his country, by his levity, his restlessness, his irritability, his morbid craving for novelty and for excitement. He loved to fly round Europe faster than a travelling courier. He was at the Hague one week, at Vienna the next. Then he took a fancy to see Madrid ; and he had scarcely reached Madrid, when he ordered horses and set off for Copenhagen. No attendants could keep up with his speed. No bodily infirmities could confine him. Old age, disease, imminent death, produced scarcely any effect on his intrepid spirit. Just before he underwent the most horrible of surgical operations, his conversation was as sprightly as that of a young man in the full vigour of health, On the day after the operation, in spite of the entreaties of his medical advisers, he would set out on a journey. His figure was that of a skeleton. But la's elastic mind supported him under fatigues and sufferings which seemed sufficient to bring the most robust man to the grave." The character of the indolent Charles, whose death gave rise to the war, shows equally the hand of a master : " The evils produced by a bad government and a bad religion, seemed to have attained their greatest height during the last years of the seventeenth century. While the kingdom was in this deplorable st ite, the King was hastening to an early grave. His days bad been few and evil. He bad been unfortunate in all his wars, in every part of his internal administration, and in all his domestic relations. His first wife, whom he tenderly loved, died very young. His second wife exercised great influence over him, but seems to have been regarded by him rather with fear than with love. He was childless; and his constitution was so completely shattered, that at little more than thirty years of age, he had given up all hopes of pos• terity. Hitt mind was even more distempered than his body. He was sometimes sunk in listless melancholy, and sometimes harassed by the wildest and most extra vagant fancies. " * Like his ancestor, Charles the Fifth, be was haunted by a strange curiosity to pry into the secrets of that grave, to which he was hastening. In the cemetery which Philip the Second had formed beneath the pavement of the church of St. Lawrence, reposed three generations of Castilian Princes. Into these dark vaults the unhappy Monarch descended by torch-light, and penetrated to that superb and gloomy chamber, where, round the great black crucifix, are ranged the coffins of the Kings and Queens of Spain. There he commanded his attendants to open the massy chests of bronze in which the relics of his predecessors decayed. He looked on the ghastly spectacle with little emotion till the coffin of his first wife was unclosed, and she appeared before him, — such was the skill of the embalmer,—in all her well-re membered beauty. He cast one glance on those beloved features unseen for eighteen years,—those features over which corruption seemed to have no power,—and rushed from the vault, exclaiming, She is with God ; and I shall soon be with her.' The awful sight completed the ruin of his body and mind. The Escurial became hateful to him ; and he hastened to Aranjuez. But the shades and waters of that delicious island-garden, so fondly cele brated in the sparkling verse of Calderon, brought no solace to their unfortunate master. Having tried me dicine, exercise, and amusement in vain, he returned to Madrid to die." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The only arrival we have this morning is from Canton, by which we have received papers at the North and South American Coffee-house to the Sth July. (COMMERCIAL REMARKS.) COTTON.—TiIe sales that have been made within the month have not amounted to above 2,000 or 3,000 bales, but the few effected have been on terms exceeding the former prices. The holders are firm, and present prices are maintained. OPIUM.—The recent accounts received from Bombay, confirming the reports previously circulates, of the year's supply of Alaliva amounting to 13,000 chests, have created a panic, and have had the effect of reducing the prices; the last sales were at 480 dollars per chest. In Patti,' little has been done ; the prices have declined to 780 Spanish dollars per chest. Benares still out of demand. Considerable importations at Singapore of piece-goods and cotton yarn are reported to have been received, which affected the prices very materially. Exchange on London, 44 to 4i per dollar. THE FUNDS. The French mail being still due, we are deprived of political information from the Continent. Although the French Funds fell 3 per cent. on Friday last, and Belgian Stock about 4 per cent., they have not as yet had any effect on the Consol Market. Consols, which left off on Satur day at 8741- for the Account, opened at the same price, went down to BM, and at present they are 871 buyers. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. The French mail is still due, and there are no arrivals of the least importance. There is nothing doing in the Funds. Console have been during the whole of the morning at 874 for the account. By the last arrival from Oporto, we hear that General Stubbs is to be Governor of Oporto, and SAldanha is to have the command of a division. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British, and all prices are much the same as on Saturday. The private letters from Brussels state, that the Bel gians are displeased with our King's speech, which was the cause of the great fall in their Funds. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 87+ CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account 87i Danish 73 Greek Brazilian Bonds 58 Mexican , 3l Buenos Ayres... Chilian Ditto.... I B i Columbian 11324 Peruvian ,.... Russian , lO4 Spanish The large brewers are now making rapid for tunes, owing to the very low price of milt and hops. The public may now expect good beer, as it will be seen, ley the corn returns, that barley:continues to lower in price. —Bristol Mercury. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THTS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR, and Lords WYNFORD and STAFFORD, sat in the House of Lords to-day,to hear appeal•. Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the arguments of Sir Charles Wetherell, in a Scotch Ap• peal of no general public interest. ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour, the MASTER. of the Ror.rs, sat in the Rolls Court, Chancery-lane, to-day. His HONOUR, on coming into the Court, intimated hi• intention of giving judgment in Winchester and Garrett, Tenner v. Aguiler, and Wilson and Moore, to morrow. The application for the dissolution of the injunction, obtained on Saturday, in Wall v. Colburn, has not come on yet. CITY REPRESENTATION. PUBLIC MEETING THIS DAY. A meeting of electors of the City of London, in the interest of George Lyall, Esq., a candidate for the vacant seat in the representation of the city, was held this day at the City of London Tavern, at 1 o'clock. - BUCKLE, Esq., took the chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the meeting by stating he regretted they would not have the pleasure of seeing Mr. Lyall, as that gentlem in was taken ill last night, and he (the Chairman) held the certificate of Mr. Darling, stating that fact, and also stating that in two or three days lie would be so far recovered as to be able to go through an active canvass. That was rather a damper upon their proceedings, but it called for greater exertions on their part.—(Hear, hear.) For the last twenty years he (the Chairman) had wit nessed the great knowledge and talent displayed by Mr. Lyall in all matters connected with the commercial interests. Of four representatives for the city, three might be said to represent political principles, and surely it was not too much to require that one should represent the commercial interests.— (Hear.) He was sorry that there had been an attempt elsewhere to cause a diversion in favour of another psi ty, but with what success it was likely to meet was evident from the fact that every person except one, who supported Mr. Lyall on the former occasion were now to he found in his ranks.—(Cheers.) Mr. Lyall offered himself, and on that ground only did his friends support him, as a man belonging to no political party, but as an independent man, intimately acquainted with the trading interests of the country, and as determined to support Mini sters in all measures that might benefit those in terests.—(Cheers.) The public press had taken great pains to set abroad rumours to the contrary, but that those were the real grounds on which he claimed support, was evident from the fact, that the requisition soliciting hits to come forward, was signed by many of the most re spectable commercial men, not of one party only, but 0' Whigs as well as Tories.--(Cheers.) Some of the papers bad stated that the writ for the election had been moved for in the House of Commons two or three nights ago, but that was a mistake, as by the rules of the House it could not be moved for until next Thursday fortnight; however, th2t would afford a longer time for an active canvass. On the last occasion Mr. Lyall poll:d not less than 5,000 vo , es out of something less than 12,000, and that full ) justified him its offering himself with every prospect of a great triumph. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER moved the first resolution. That resolution did not pledge the meeting to support any principles but those of honesty and integrity. In these times of great difficulty and constitutional danger, it was necessary to take care and elect gentlemen of indepen dent principles.—( Hear, hear.) There had been a great deal too much of violence evinced in elections far Members of Parliament.—(Cheers.) This was a commercial country—the interests of commerce were of great magni tude, and whenever there was an opportunity of introdu cing into the House of Commons a gentleman of high character and credit, they ought to place him in that high station where be might render a service to his country—(Cheers)—a person who was both able and willing to support its trading interests, and who perfectly understood those interests —(Great cheering.) The worthy Alderman said he had once been a Member of Parliament, and he knew what attention was paid there to the sentiments of any commercial man who rose to address the House—(Hear, hear)—whether those sentiments were in favour of, or opposed to, his Majesty's Ministers. He concluded by moving " that this meeting considered it of the utmost importance that the representatives of the city should be of Independent principles, and should be thoroughly conversant both in theory and practice with the commercial interest of the country.—(Cheers.) Mr. A. CHAPMAN, M.P., seconded the resolution. A long acquaintance with Mr. Lyall had led him justly to appreciate the sentiments expressed by the Chairman in favour of that gentleman, and to forward his election. It he looked back for any long period of time, he could trace the conduct of Mr. Lyall, relating to all the trading interests of this great commercial city—p. Chairman for a long period of the Ship-owners' So ciety, few men had executed his duty with so much ability. As to his political opinions, he (Mr. Chapman) knew but little, but at a time when the empire was threatened to be dismembered, Mr. Lyall would be one of those Conserva tives to rally round the supporters of the throne, and pro tect the best interests of the country.—(Loud cheers.) The general feeling towards Mr. Lyall had procured him, the moment he offered his services, the office of a Director of the East India Company ; it was to be hoped that the electors of London would think the same of him, for no person would act more faithfully towards them than he would.—(Cheers.) Mr. Fnusg, in support of the resolution, said the com mercial interests of the city were not at present repre- sented. He called the attention of the meeting to the period when they were ably represented by Mr. Wilson, who had procured for them benefits they would not otherwise have obtained. After some further observations, Mr. F. concluded by asking of the Chairman whether there was. a certainty of Mr. Lyall's proceeding with the election, for it was important to know that he would not, like Lord Henley, resign, and so make all the efforts of his friends unavailing. The Resolution having been put, and carried unani mously, The CHAIRMAN in reply to Mr. Fruse's question said, he, as well as the other supporters of Mr. Lyall, would not take so active a part if they could for a moment sup pose that that gentleman would withdraw himself, more particularly alter such encouragement as he had met with.—(Cheers.) Mr. Lyall's absence prevented a posi • tive pledge, but immediate!y after the meeting the Com mittee would communicate with him, and make the result known. —(Cheers. ) Mr. JOHN DIXON, in moving the 2d resolution said, a snore honest, zealous, and upright man could not be sent to the House of Commons than Mr. Lyall.—(Cheers.) An intimacy of 30 years had enabled hint to say that much of his Hon. Friend.—(Cheers.) He concluded by moving the resolution that the talents and knowledge of Mr. Lyall peculiarly eminently qualified him to represent the City of London.—(Cheers.) . _ . . Mr. COTTON seconded the resolution, and passed a high eulogium on the character of Mr. Lyall. The business of the meeting was proceeding when our reporter left. FINSBURY MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) A most numerous and highly respectable Meeting of tie electors of the borough of Finsbury was held this after noon, in the spacious room of the White Conduit House Tavern, to consider the propriety of petitioning the Legis lature for the adoption of the 1311 lot in the election of Mem bers of Parliament, the repeal of the Septennial Act, abd the abolition of the Assessed Taxes. The Members of. the borough, together with Messre. Wakley, Temple, and Babbage, their rival candidates, were invited to attend the Meeting. Twelve o'clock was the time appointed for Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., to take the chair, and shortly after that hour the Hon. Gentleman arrived, accompanied by Major Revell, the Rev. Dr. Rice, and Messrs. Rogers, Wakley, and Mills. The Hun. Member was received with the most rapturous applause. At one o'clock the Rev. Dr. Rice and Mr. Rogers entered the room amid loud cheers from the impatient meeting, and the latter, ascending a table, addressed those assembled upon the importance of the objects for which they had assembled, and of carrying th ose o bj ec t s i n t o f u ll effect. Owing to some misunderstandi ng that had taken place among some of the members of the Committee, as to the time fixed for the meeting, several of them were absent. and therefore it would be impolitic to proceed in the busi ness without them. The Committee had written to Messrs. Grant and Spankie, the Members of the borough, inviting their attendance, and had been answered by them, that they would have neither part nor lot with such persons.—(Groans, and cries of" Shame.") It behoved the electors then to fight their own battles, as their soi-disant representatives declined doing so for them. To insure a numerous attendance of the electors, he proposed that the meeting should take place about a week hence, and iu the evening... —The resolution was agreed to. ',TTTPPTvG INTrT.T.T(:r'Crir. (TT-TTg n.VV.) • , DEAL, FEB. 9 AND 10. —Wied S.W., a gale.—Ar rived his Majesty's ship Satellite and his Majesty's steam~ r Confiance, both from the westward. Arrived and saile.t for the river the Gilmore, Friend, from Singapore. POItTiMOUTH, FEB. 9 AND S.W., hard.—Arrived the Catherine, Penton, from St. Mi c h ae l',. Sailed his Majesty's ship Spartiate, for S out h A mer i ca ; Wanderer transport, for Deptford ; and Noma, f or Ply. MOUth blowing. FALMOUTH, FEB. 8 AND 9.—Wind N.W. to S.W., moderate breezes.—Sailed the Camden packet, for th, Brazils ; Goldfinch ditto s for Halifax and Bermuda ; Firefly steam-packet, fur the Mediterranean ; his Majesty's ship Pantaloon, for Lisbon, with mails ; his Majestys ship Griffin, for the Coast of Africa; and the Pigeon packet, for Plymouth. MARGATE, FEB. 10.-Arrived off port the Gilmore, Friend, from Singapore. DOVER, FEB. 10.—Arrived the Commercial packet, Ward, from Teneriff, with loss of main -mast, &c., having been foul of the Mary Stuart in the Downs. BRISTOL, FEB. 10.-Arrived the Express packet, Crosscomb, front St. Michael's. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9.—Arrived the Harriet and Jessie, M'Koun, from Charleston ; Minerva, Goss, from New foundland ; Marietta, Evans, from Terceira ; Recovery, Guteley, from St. Michael's ; and Pantaloon, Smith, from Demerara—sailed Jan. 3, and reports the Reliance, for Cork, and the Mary for the Clyde, the Ist ult.; the Tappho, was to sail on the 7th ult., and the Henrietta, for the Clyde ; and the Wilson, for Liverpool on the 15th. The Redligheden, Anderson, from Gothenburg to Jersey, was stranded on Vlieland, 4th inst.,—crew saved. The John and Mary, Mumford, from Cork to Ply mouth, was totally wrecked near Perthleven, on Thursday night —crew, part of the cargo, and most of the stores and materials saved. The Diamond, Dawson, from Wexford to Liverpool, sunk off Point Lynch, on Friday—crew saved. The Elizabeth and Jane, S,wle, from Swansea to Bridgewater, sunk off Mineheael, on Friday—crew and materials saved. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of most kinds of Grain last week were good, and there was also a fair return of Flour. This morning there is a moderate fresh arrival of Wheat from Essex and Kent, chiefly in tender condition ; of other articles plenty remains on hand. The wheat trade was full as dear as on this day se'rmight for fine dry parcels, but for damp and inferior samples the factors were obliged to submit to a reduc tion of Is. to 2s. per quarter. Barley, that is fine for malting, firmly supports last week's prices ; other sorts very heavy in sale. Beans that are sound and dry, free sale at former rates. Pease unaltered. Oats continue very abundant, and sales are very difficult to effect at our former quotations. Flour as last rated. Wheat, Red (old: --White (c Red 183'. Fine... Superf White (1 - Fine.. %ICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Beans, Small (new)... —s. —s. (old) —F • Tick (new)....s 30s. • (old) .... 3'2s. 345. Harrow (new)3os. 325. ( old).. 365. 38s. Ad).. —s. 425. 465. 48s. 525. fine 533. 565. 1832) 46s. 50s. 52s 54s fine sss. 60s. free 40s. 62.5. 325. 365. 225. 245. . 2ss. 275. 30s 345. 425 48s. 525. 565. 'l4s 355 . ew 3ss. 365. 345. 365. 345. 425. Wank_ Foreign Rye Barley Grinding --halting Malt Fine New Pease, Grey Net Maple NI White , Boilers _— Oats, Feed l4s. Pic New l7s. 18s. Poland New l7s. 21s. Potatoe 225. 245. New ...21g. Scotch 2ls. 245. Irish lss. 18s 20s. Flour Town (per sack) 45s .50s --- Seconds 425. 455. North Country 40s. 445. I Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST , h'IZEK. l 4 , 9 e 7 if 7 From Whence. :i • .' F 2. :i F, ---, r *: 4 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldborongh 6O 347 Boston Bridlington Cowes Dartmouth 445 763 60 - 2 17 149 84 7RS r, t ' l l'ie arw h l e ch e . r 74 223 831 —66 U A Leigh 945 266 75 315 73 4 . 1 MaMon lO2O 459 250 202 699 376 ' 1071 Exeter — .2 180 Grangemouth 2 2 8 Grimsby — Hull I /Een w : ch 133 584 846 192 66 5 6 1 2208 767 2 204 268 308 675 Lyme .. 1182 _ _ Poole — 50 250 Southampton Southwold 45 350 30 Stockton — 200 120 Weymouth Wisbeach 390 125 125 Woodbridge 356 780 47 30 53 220 Yarmouth ...... Aberdeen ..... Banff — 310 lierwick _ 140 500 100 Dunbar — 61 40 Dundee — 720 1 37 30 Inverness 7B r.— 9 Leith — 100 5S 6550 6730 6798 4507 2077 1226 6461 tarsal. Cork Galway — 6027 as Kilnish .., 3252 Limerick — 7833 Londonderry Newry — 4'218 Waterford 235 2370 914 Westport ... _ 0 3715___ __ 1(4(4 Youghall Total ... 8018 6730 4798 39632 2077 1220 7866 SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of each kind of stock was limited; but the trade, owing to advanced prices being generally and stiffly de. manded, was very dull throughout, with Veal at AR advance of about 2d. per stone; with Beef, Mutton, and Pork, at Friday's quotations. PRICES PER STONE OF 8LBS• TO SINK Tlik OFPALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. tos, d. Inferior Beasts '2 4 2 6 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 (1 Prime large Oxen... 4 0 4 2 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 6 Prime Scots, 5x..... 4 '2 4 4 Prune small ditto 5 0 5 8 Inferior Sheep 2 4 210 Large Hogs Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Small Porkers 4 2 410 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8 Suckling Calves 12s. topiL.e..lo-, SouthdownWethers 410 5 2 Quarter old Pigs 12s.to18.1.1)ach. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATENIUNTo Beasts. I Sheep. Calves, I Pig s . I 2,266 I 12,120 lO2 I 120 About 250 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's rmi ; about 400 up the other northern roads; about 200 (including Iris)' ) from the western and midland districts; about 950 from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 10iffrora Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c, in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEA . At per stone, 1 _ . DENHALL MARKETS. by the Carcase. Seel, inferior middling 2 2 2 6 --. middling. prime large 2lO 3 2 ---- prime prime small 3 4 3 8 Pork, large. Veal 3 4 5 0 —small. s. d.tol. d. ... 2 2 2 4 . 2 4 210 38 4 4 3 6 :110 4 4 5 0 NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET —Feb. 9. We continue to be fairly supplied with Wheat from the farmers. and there being a demand today for seed, the whole sold readily on full as good terms as last Saturday. In south-country Wheats little doing. The Oat trade was slow at our quotations. Some large sales of Barley have been made during the week, but the supplies are again pressing upon the demand, and the trade was very heavy for all but the finest samples. Little doing in Beans or Pease. Sound heavy Rye wanted. - - New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 40s. 52s 4os. 555.' -- Norfolk and Suffblk 525. 623.„.... —s. --h. Berwick and Scotch 40s. 50s —s —s Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk ....... ........ 34s 38A ..—s. —..s. Foreign 325. 35s —s. —s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sutfolk...26s. 32s Grinding and Feeding ‘ ) 2s. `_'Ss. —s. —s. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 50i 56s —s. —s. Beans, Small —b. —s mss. 28i. - Tick —s. —s. 2ss. 265. Pease, White 365. 40a —s. —s. Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ll/3 225....... —s. —s, Feed l6s 188 —s. —4. Foreign Flour, Fine (per sack) — s . — s . 3Ss. 424 'a q .. •= 4 . 5. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATUR DAY.-The import this week is 81,030 bags, and the sales reach 13,080 bags, at steady prices, viz. 290 Sea Naiads at 11-4 d. to 19d.; 20 stained ditto 7d. to I o d . ; 2,800 New orleano6fd. to Sid. ; 1,140 Alabama% &c. 6d. to lad. io s ; 1 71(1. t o Bd. ; 4 20 Pe r : am4B 3V 1i a t r o ; 640 B a hi a and a sB'd. to 91-d. ;30 Demeraras, &c. 9d. ; 140 Egyptians 9d. to d . ; and 730 Surats at 4id. to 52d. per lb. To-day the sales of cotton are stated to be 1,500 bales, of which 1,200 are in American descriptions, from 6,1 d. to 7. 1 4 1 d. ; and 300 Per nams at 8 2 d. and 9d. 4 COAL.--An enterprising individual, in this neighbourhood, is now busily fi))201 ninrie e et _u n it ‘en g ,nita a i hhat g oeei e r wderuenenbovi twelve ceou uncommon m i hhp n e g rifneotleoofi, fi tnt ) i coal,r alafobrriwolrnemi, ,teaththn at ai the discovery Plumgarths, about two miles from Kendal. The work menttsihuierr three surface, h rde: a i yffvyeeer kinds -- a n inn o t, t 1 theyks ......g i onhtdaasfvutoeri of i h bfnr e ege r eens t mi l country, and very favourable to the hopes of the miner. Whether the individual's exertions be successful or not, he is certainly deserving of the support and encouragement of the people of the town ; because„ discovery of an abundant supply of coal might be to him, it could not fail of being of incalculable benefit to the in habitants of Kendal, who are obliged to purchase coals that come from a distance, the expensive carriage of which renders them very high to the consumer.— Kendal (Iron, At Axbridge, the very best fresh but.er is selling at 11d. per 1b...-Bristol Mercury.