The Sun. — London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

For, TiI'SUN. ON THE.F*ST AND PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS COUNTRY; WITH 1R T:IM Ti) :TUE nEriEr.or AGRICULTURE, • • 3141'irr: - FACT (TRES, D• CONI3ITERCE. ••• , : : • • - -.teo - Aarnked from our Paper of Yesterd(.4;) According: to an account laid.beforeParliaMent, the arnorint.:4l7oreign Coin imported into'Great 43ritain in th'e years 1817 and 1818,.exceeded se venteen; millions sterling, besides 3,700,0001. from Ire:tandand the - Isle of Man.. Is there not great incOnsisteaCy in this Country"s paying so much for the produce of Foreign land ; which, 'by thety; - toOk out of circulation the seven mil lion and upwards -of Guineas and. Sovereigns; which hatlzltteviouSly been issued by the Bank ; and paying at the, same time - many millions of . poor-rates .for- supporting - able people Wanting , emplOyinent - ficeording to commonsense, the cul tivatinginei.easte land wonld enable the produ vets of looti toc - onsume.more manufactures ; more people . to falitkate tbe goods would then be em ployed f.l - Consequently more :of ; the provision raised from the land;would be - consulted. :Ern ployment.therefore could be given both to - tillers . of land.and :producers of goods,. for their recipro-: cal advan-lirge and happiness. The' prevalence of crime; WoUld-be diminished. The moral and litical character of the people would . be imprOved ; the deliverance from indigence, misery, and dis ease of . ani considerable numlier iNroilld enhance the price of labour in. some degree generally ; and Whileimparting new life.to the helpless peo ple at . - : Present suffering, better hopes and fairer prospects would-he - diffused _among all the indus 'trious *lasses. 'And by raising into prosperous circumstances_ those - who are now . supported 'within the limits of charity; as well as 'improving 'the condition of.-others, the payment of taxes would, as it were, be spread. over a greater sur face,jto-diministr.the pressure upon, individuals, and nevertheless - augment the public revenues. Consistently with these views, we ventured many - years ago to suggest the necessity of colonizing upon our. own territory, in a publication widely -distributed. The comparative. amount of exports, and the fall in the foreign exchanges, prove that when we import *corn, we 'pay in gold-as well as 'goods. - Gold is -again to be in circulation. In `case -- of importing corn, gold. will be ready for paying for it. The exchange will, by the ex portationof gold, be - prevented-falling to become any_bounty,_ as already explained, in favour of selling Btitish goods in foreign countries. There fore- the interests-of the great inland trade, of manufactures 'and of navigation, urge more and mote the expediency of employing our own people upon our own territory. The interests of foreign commerce urge this policy also, because 'the' greater the power of consumption. in the people, the more considerable will. be :the ex 'change of equivalents; If it be objected, that employing,-the people by colonizing them upon British ground; will in crease the quantity of corn,-and render the mar ket.price still less profitable to the present pro dii-Cers, this ;objection suggests some - such ques tions: as these :- Whether it be correct in prin ciple, or wise in•porcy, to complain of abundance and cheapnesS ? _Whether our evils. ',Jot a pernicious. moral ten dency ? Whether,- instead of complaining of re dundant population, and the productiVeness of the land, the.effects and the system. of taxation dO.nct, howeverreluctantly we : admit it,-actually Constitute the, latent and real obstacle to the , constant employment of the people,.and the more ample developement of out, immense resources ? end is the old :maxim .utterly:obliterated -"-A bold peasantry ; their Country's pride ?" Can we ~also . so soon . forget the faithful, loyal population, when stood forth- those breasts -of--steel, those sturdy 'arms, the pa tient, perseVering, unlioasting ; -courage, so re vently the -glory and- pride.of - Britain ; our de . - fenders—our pieservers - ?..±Can short-sighted in gratitude, amid luxury.-- . an.deaSe . in. present se cifri ty, neglect so - fine- a race of People . ? - • • " Bold; firm, and' graceful, arc thy generous youth, -- By hardship sinew'd, and by danger - tied,: - " Scattering the nations where they go ; and first " Or on the listed plain, or stormy seas.". ' 6- Let no cold indifference, no freezing apathy be .imputed to those in Whom .the power 'over the happinesS of the people resides.' We possess an immense share of the globe., The land of their fathers'is as dear to the poor as :to the affluent.' We may repent the .expatriation of the people. Let us rather labour to raise th ein once, more to prosperity and to, happiness... 'Let them "again practically appreciate-: their. own national . word, - cOmfort. .And when those; Who . :delight . to 'See cheerfitlness around them, contemplate the . cot-' tage 'family, may they with:UniniXed satisfaetion call.to mind theeloqUentTtiOmsON's ;a - S.-suggested by the happysondition of the pea - .=.' sintry before the Middle of_the last:century, " All is the gift of IndustrY ; whate'er - " Exalts, embellishes, and redders.life:; ` . • " Delightful. Penslfe 'inter Clieeird:by "Sits at the social fire, and happy-hears _ - "Th'. excluded tempest idly rave along ; "His harelen'd fingers - deck the gaudy Spring; '" Without him Suniiner - were an and Waste . ; , . " Nor th' autumnal months could-thus trai,ismit Those full, mature, irumeasurable stores, , " That, waving romid,.recall'My Wandering song.° • - -Regarding domestib ,- ;colciniiation, having re .ceived-a very interesting and•-•instructive corn rifunication from the Rev.lh. WERNINCK, Chap lain to his Excellency the Ambassador of the Netherlands,. we -have much satisfaction in being permitted to publish it, both on; account of 'the good it may induce; and the respectability. of Dr. WERNINCK'S authority. for the- statement. Be sides, it is a practical illustration of our views of pastoral, agricultural, and-horticultural-coloniza tion, apart from increasing manufactures, as best suited to the circumstances of this country : • " A short time after peace was established- on the Continent, Mr. Vanden Bosch, of Amsterdam, and a few other Gentle men, formed an Associatiori titider thenaine of ‘• The Society of Benevolence.' Their object was to collect a sum of money by subscription, to purchase !Mid argliratahlisli domestic Colo nies, for the . purpose of giving .work and subsistence - to the un employed inchistnous -Poor. l'°finct Frederick' of Orange was nominated President. - As- soon as their funds were sufficient tacommence carrying the -proposed objectinlo execution, an extensive' estate . , the greaterm.rt of, which, was very poor land, was,pUrchased in the province 'of thieryStiel. A Iminediately spot was selected, and a small,Colony established, consisting ; of fifty cottages, besides a few other necessary buildings. To each of the cottages was allowed a sufficient plot of ground for a garden. Nobody was admitted into this Colony but those who could produce satisfactory certificates of industt3t and good character. The beneficial effects of this undertaking were soon observed. "In the following year . a second Colony was established in another part of the estate. This was called 'Fiederickstown,' after the President; the first Colony bearing the original name of the estate. Here" also fifty cottages were built and inhabi-% , tints put in them. The success and prosperity of this second Colony were likewise soon .manifested. `The consequence -of Which was, that the Directors of the SoCiety were encouraged by more liberal donations, " The increase of thc.funds - allowed them to establish a third Colony, which they did, and to which they gave the name of Williamstown, after the King, - ..his Majesty having patronized the, Society very ardently. Ilere 100 cottages were built, 700 acres of land alletwed'to this Colony, and many improvements, experience suggested, and the new donations permitted, 'wire -Made. At Some. distance from the estate a small navi gable river, called the Aa, has 'communication with some large towns and villages. From the Colonies to this River a banal has - been cat, and now they are digging one as far as the Luyder Sea. While working the ground a large- tract of fine brick earth was discovered, and, in another part of the estate, a large piece' of moor, or peat, was found, which "produces very good fuel for making bricks. Bricks,: therefore, are now made in great.quantities, and the mode of conveying them through the canal being cheap and easy, they are considerably - exported; and thereby a profitable trade has been opened to the colonists. "To those of the colonists that have no children,.. boys and girls-from the Orphan-houses of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Der drecht, and other places, have been given. The Direetors ap plied for those of the best character, who liked agricultural la hOuts, which application was readily granted. - " The success of. the thred - rolonies being far above the most sanguine expectations of the original plannerS, two more Colonies have been marked out already, so that this estate - will.ioon have five separate colonies. The . Directors have been enabled to pur chase another estate, - situated in the same province - with 'the same intention. " These Colonies,being inhabited by sober, industrious, and Moral people, hapninesi seems to reign in the midst of them..— . But particularly the Orphans - expresS their satisfaction and joy' to every stranger who inquires how they like their new situation. They all highly prefer. it to being shut up in largehuildings,7 as one of the hOys shrewdly observed.—An eyewitness , , who lately visited these Colonies, says, those that do not see them with their owii eyes cannot form-an idea of the neatness ard prosperity of the little towns, nor of the happiness and content ' ment of the hUndreds of -inhabitants. And those that visit them can hardly believe that the ground on which they .now see large toads, planted on each side - with young . trees, ' Pgable canals, places of worship, schools, two hundred coin ortable cottages, with their productive gardens, and here and ' there a larger building, together with meadows, stocked with ' cattle, corn=fields, Oantationss and places of amusement in the ' woods, was but a few years ago a barren spot,- and,.e3teept the woods, produced nothing to the owner:' " These establishments being a novel thing, many people.vi sit them, and nobody'returns Without being astonished and. de lighted at what may be done by good management and in dustry." The branch of industry, in which at present the pressure of distress is most felt, is agriculture, and consequently among all the internal traders. The low market price of corn oppresses the far.: mer. The farmer - cannot pay _or afford to . deal with the tradesman. The wages of . labour are redticed by the lower rice of food, the price of _the labour of the peasantry being governed by . _the price. l of bread and the improved circum- stances of the Manufacturers is no argument to the contrary, their wages being governed by the demand for goods. The demand for goods hav ing increased, has raised the money price of labour; while the price of food has diminished, and raised likewise the value of the recompence of labour. But as the present prospect of any amendment in favour of the agriculturists, and consequently in favour of the shop-keepers and all internal traders, depends, as we conceive, wholly on a reduction of taxes, Mr. Locxc's opinion regarding the ultimate fund, whence taxes are paid, well deserves the attention of the landed and trading interests. Admitting, how ever, that this country was essentially agricul tural in his day, and that his position is not now to its utmost extent a truism, on account of the extension'ot ourmanufacturesi-: foreign commerce navigation.: lle said, " It is in vain 'in a " country, .whose great fund is land, to hope to " lay the publre charge of the C.'nvornment- on cc any thing else ; there at last it will terminate. " The merchant (do what you can) will not bear 44 it, the labourer cannot, and therefore the land " holder must." In truth, the present extent and perfection, of our manufactures, the 'improvements in • ma chinery, the immense capital, and the number of people empley.ed, could not be contemplated by our ancestors. Even thirty years ago no person could venture to expect, that cotton grown in the East Indies, conveyed to England at the great expences of a- long voyage ; purchased by our manufacturers at a" price comprehending the cost and expences ; ;. - then - passing through all the di visions of labour, amid our higher prices of food and wages, and converted into muslins.—That these muslicis being sent to the East Indies at the repeated expences of transit, should undersell the muslins of the country at a profit ; although the natives have the advantage of manufacturing the raw material on the spot ; and although food and labour are perhaps cheaper 'there than in any other part of the world! From, two to three millions of yards of British muslins have been sent_to India annually in recent years,. and the quantity is expected to be increased. Our Ancestors could as little anticipate . the extension of our Commerce and Navigation.— Dr. ADAM 5411T11 considered the Navigation Act unfavonrable .to . foreign commerce and to the growth of that opulence which would naturally .arise from if,.on account of its provisions notper cnitting the most perfect freedom of trade. Hut he said." As.defence is of much more importance than opuTence, the Act of Navigation is,:perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England:" Notwit ri hstanding the proviSions of this Act, we have.-seen the growth of commercial opulence - exceed all human- expectation. We have seen .commerce provide seamen even ,fOr the gigantic naval power of Britain. - We'have seen " the Wooden Walls of Old England" forman ithpenetrable barrier round the whole United Kingdom, and, while encircling every , colonial possession,. sweeping from the ocean every foe. Let us be anxious to deliberate maturely on every measure, however plausible, which may endanger this' protection. And let us labour to preserve and strengthen it by every means: - Taking there fore into consideration all the existing circum stances of this country ; the indispenSable neces sity of stcPporting the extended.scale of our, ma nufacttires;from. which we cannot recede, even if it were wise so to do ; and the, expediency as well as good policy . of extending our commerce, en couraging our.,navigation, and strengthening the means of national. defence ; seeing the present state of our agriculture and manufactures, as to the superabundatice of the supply, compared with the _demand, the energy of production being -greater than ever i And regarding agricul ture, in particular, upon which so much depends, as it appears that all the powers of production are gpread.OveT so late a sitrface'erthese kingdoms, any attempt to render restriction more effectual would, according to all experience, only stimulate prodaction ; consequently that we cannot expect again to raise materially the market price of corn for any permanency ; as , the rent. of land St measured and governed by the •market price 67 corn ; and as the interest of -money, and the various profits of 'stock have fallen, from the influence of which decline neither rent or the profits of cultivation can escape ; as we cannot expect these circumstances to be altered by the expected change in the current money of the country, must not the idea of raising again the nominal rent of land be abandoned? Is it even possible to raise it either materially or per manently ? Were it not, therefore, better at 011C2 to adopt the alternative of endeavouring by all reasonable and honourable means to diminish the taxes upon the necessaries of life, which ac cumulate so much in the progress of producing those necessaries for the consumer, thereby re ducing the growing price of cotn somewhat lower than . the market price, and by so doing raise the real value of the rent of land, in other words, in crease the power over the necessaries of life of such a rent as may be consistent with the re duced price of corn ; and which power would increase more and, more as taxes are diminished ? The energy of such power, for all the purposes of subsistence And ,enjoyments, may' be rendered even greater with low prices than it was in times of higher rents and profits ; because the neces saries and enjoyments of life were then perhaps more expensive in proportion, on account of the profits charged upon taxes in the progress of accumulation. And has not this been proved by experience ? Did not a country gentleman live more liberally, and better support his rank, forty years ago upon a•rental of six hundred a year, - for example, than he could in our times at twelve hundred a year ? And if the taxes and rates were no more in .proportion to population now than they were then, what other circumstances could prevent the energy of the power of such a rental over the necessaries and enjoyments of life being as great now as at any former period ? Would it not, probably, in truth, be greater than ever, on ac count of more perfect machinery for abridging human labour, more skill in the cultivation of land, as well as improved science and intelli gence in every branch of industry ? IVith a view to this alternative, we do most anxiously, although humbly, recommend to the immediate attention of Members of Parliament the plan' which has been, with all deference, submitted to their consideration, for reducing the capital and annual charge of the Na tional Debt, Which is perfectly practicable, and is no violation of public faith. It is perfectly practicable, because it consists sim ply of a conversion of stock into a new stock ; a stock to bear five per cent. interest. The in ternal tranquillity of the country ; the present state of our foreign relations ; the distress sus tained by many industrious people; the difficulty of devising any, other remedy for this distress ; all conspire to render it more than ever expe dient to adopt some measure for the relief of pub lic, burdens, upon a scale consistent with the state of the nation. ' The plan alluded to is grounded upon the prin ciple, that, when the rate of interest in the iS low, the value of a certain fixed annuity is high in proportion. It suggests that a new five per cent. stock, not to be redeemed for at least twenty-five years, be established. The value of such annuity in the market will considerably exceed 100/. It proposes to fund Exchequer bills in the new stock, and to convert into it a great part of the three per cents., and the whole of the four and present five per cents. By these operations, the capital of 'the Na tional Debt may be diminished more than two hundred millions. In redeeming the debt, the public may save more than one hundred and fifty millions of money, while the annuity of the 3 per cents., which may be converted into a new stock, will be increased, and that of the 4 and 5 per cents. will not be so much diminished, as when reduced to 31 per cents., according to pre sent expectation. And upon the total amount of interest, there will be a saving of more than a, million per annum. The essay accompanying the details shows that its adoption is the real stockholder's inte rest, on account of the appreciation of the value of his annuity, which will result from the conse quences of relief from taxes. After having placed the National Debt in the most favourable train of redemption, an object, we humbly conceive,._ superior to all others in importance, according as progress is made, in re deeming the debt, taxes will be reduced. [To be concluded to-morrow.] CONFIRMATIONS By the Bishop of LioNDoN, in the Parish Church of Saiut George, Hanover,.sguare, oil Monday, May. 4, : 1818 ; and on Saturday, June 9, 1821. Persons Places. Ministers. , - ' Ministers. Persons n 415 I to: i Church of St.George...Dean of 1 6A r ., c l. Dean of Carlisle"' 368 Chester '"& Mr. Mrillams f St. George's Chapel • - 48 Curzon-street Chapel - - None Park-street Chapel - - 2 Grosvenor Chapel - 115 Knightsbridge Chapel - 16 Trinitythapel - - - None . - Chelsea Workhouse... Rev. R. 16 Rev. John Rush None Sandilands Rivers Berkeley Chapel Rev. Mr. None Rev. Mr. Rivers 30 St. Mary's Chapel Rev. Mr. None Rev. Mr. Harness . 45 Harness Albemarle Chapel - - None - - None Charlotte street 1 Rev. Wee-1 119 Rev. Weeden Butler 33 Chapel,Pimlieo .1 den Butler Ebury Chapel —Rev. R. 92 Rev. Win. Bewshei 69 Sandilands Dean of Rochester 110 Rev. Mr. Pitman 73 Rev. J. • 04 Dr. Thorpe Gibson None Belgrave Chapel The Lock Chapel None None • Total . 1,253 Total 703 Besides Srrepty-eight sent by , 8 Besides, one who) "different Clergymen of note f t 8 was confirmed by I herself - In all 1,336 In all 709 A handsome suite of baths have recently been completed in. Guernsey, and a .steam packet is about to be established between that - Island and the River Thames, LIST OF THE MINORITY WHO VOTED AGAINST GIVING THE ARREARS OF THE - - .• GRANT TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE. Baring, Sir T.. Fleming;.). (Hants) Portman, T. B. Bennet, Hon. H. G. Gippps, G. Powlett, Hon. E. Bennet, J. Gordon, Roll. Rice, S. - Bernal r h . a ... 'Grattan, J. - •,:-• Robarts, A. W. Birch, 11, - N'• Gaskell, Ben. s,, ‘ .. Robinson- Sir Geo. Bric, , ht;Pftnry - '-- • Harbord, licrn.ll3%. , ,..‘Rumbold, , R. Brougham, Henry HObliou - se, J.C.• Smith, Wm. Bury, Lord King, Sir J. D. Smith, John Chaloner, Robert . Lester, B. L. Sivann, H. Denman, Thos. Martin, John - Tennyson. C. Dundas, Hon. T. Milton, Lord Webb, Col. Eirans, T. ' Newman R. W. Williams, W. Fane, J. Nugent, Lord , Teller. Farrand, R. Palmer, C. F. - Hume, J. Forbes, C. Parnell, Sir IL . . ERRATA.—In the Continuation of the article on the " Past and Present Circumstances of the Country," in the Second Column of the Second Page of our Paper of Yesterday, Line 62, for " great" rent, read " quit" rent; and in noticing the contents of the Dutch Papers yesterday, for " interest ing" accounts from Sweden, read " uninteresting." WHIT TUESDAY.—HoIiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Houses. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'TO-MORROW. Morning, 0 minutes after 0. (Evening, 22 minutes after 12. E S UN. SOLE)] QUIS DICERE FAESUM AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE. 12, 1881! We received this morning the Paris Papers o Saturday. According to advices from Smyrna the inhabitants of the coasts of Asia Minor have risen in several places against the Turks, and are communication with the insurgents in the Grecian Archipelago. At Smyrna two serious disturbances have taken place, which have been attended with some bloodshed ; and Cyprus, which has hitherto been distinguished for its fidelity to the Turkish Government, has been the theatre of several tumultuous scenes. It is reported that the military operations of the Greeks in the I4lorea are conducted by two skilful Foreign Officers of Engineers, and that several English have been led by the spirit of enthusiasm to join the ranks of the Greeks. The defection of the Arnauts from the army of the PACIIA of the Alorea is con firmed ; the desertions, however, do not appear to be confined to this branch of his forces, for the only troops who remain under his command con sist entirely of Turks. The report of the assas sination of ALi PACIIA is again mentioned, and with such minuteness of detail, as tobear the sem blan.ce of truth. It is stated that Am had long since determined to deliver Greece from the Turkish yoke. lle had even advanced consider able sums of money towards the arming and cloth ing. of the insurgent troops, but aftprwards thought proper to enter into a secret negociation with the Porte, through the medium of the Paellas who commanded the troops sent against him. The conditions demanded by him, viz. his re-establishment and confirmation in his Pachalik, and a full and unconditional amnesty for himself and his partizans, were formally guaranteed by the Grand Seignior, upon the express condition that he should aid the Turkish troops with his forces in exterminating the Greeks. It appears that WAJA, his private and confidential Secretary, known for his attachment to the cause of the in surgents, was apprised of all that was passing, and communicated the same to the Greeks who were then about the person of the Pacha. The latter assembled and determined on putting ALI to death, which was immediately done. The advantages gained by the Greek fleet over the Turkish squadron are confirmed. The re mains of the latter took refuge in a port near Corfu, where they are now blockaded by that portion of the Greek vessels furnished by the liydriots. In the French Chamber of Peers the examina tion of witnesses for the prosecution against the conspirators of the 19th August 1820, closed on Thursday, and on the following day the Attorney- General summed up the evidence in a speech, of upwards of three hours. In his exordium, he stated that he should in this speech confinehim self to shew the existence of a conspiracy, its ob ject, and its legal character. The questions as to what part each of the prisoners had taken in the conspiracy, and the degree of culpability attache& to each, would form the subject of another address. In proof of the first point, the ATTORNEY-GNERAL established the existence of a conspiracy:. from, the_evidence of the_ wit-, nesses, and the confessions of the prisoners them selves. In support of the second question, as to the object of the Conspirators, the Learned Gen tleman said, from the tenor of the evidence and written declarations of the prisoners, it might be inferred that the conspirators at Paris bad re solved on the murder of the KING and all the Royal Family.; but he acknowledged that the proceedings threw considerable doubt on this point. He declared, however, that their object was the expulsion of the KING and his Family, and the placing of the son of BUONAPAItTE on the Throne ; but he acknowledged that the conspi rators at Cambray had a, less odious design, and had only the intention of reforming the Government a .la Quiroga, and to dictate such laws as they should approve. With regard to the third point, the Attorney General admit ted that the evidence did not establish an actual attempt, but a plot, either for the subversion or changing the Government, or for waging war against the Royal authority. M. VATISMENIL was to be heard at the next sitting on the question as to thepart each prisoner took in the plot. - The Budgets of the Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs_ occasioned several animated debates in the French Chamber - of De- puties ) which were marked by strong party spirit and personal allusions. Both Budgets have been. adopted. FRENCH FONDS. June 8, Five per Cents. - .1 4. Bank Stock • 1590 1 4 . —c....., z.ii, 4 • . The follo w in g are the contenes'of the 4. Flan . ders Mail received this morning : " LILLE, JUNE 3.—At .a moment when all the powers of the North of Europe have formidable armies on foot, and which are even dispropor tioned to the population and their revenue, France has not an army which she can shew with confidence either to her friends or to her enemies : it is even doubtful whether it will be e3m- plete on the peace establishment by the end of this year. The only corps which have attained their full compliment are, the Royal Guard, the Swiss regiments, forming to gether a total of 10,000 men, and the legions of the Prince of Ilohenlohe, composed of 2,400 men : all the other corps of the army, artillery, cavalry, and infantry, are very far from being on the footing fixed by the Ordinances. 66 Since the events of the month of August last, many officers who were in active service have been placed on half-pay, and a great number of subalterns, the term of whose service was unex pired, have asked their discharge. The levy of 40,000 men which is now going on is indeed to serve to fill up the regiments, but they are young soldiers, whom it will take some time to form. In general most of the old soldiers, accustomed to make war in the North and South of Europe, cannot accustom themselves to the state of repose which they enjoy ; the military spirit which gave birth to so many heroic actions subsides but slowly. The rich dotations, the military decorations, the rapid promotions which took place when the army was decimated every year, all this exists no longer, and cannot return. A garrison life appears dull to these old soldiers, who have been accustomed to traverse Europe, to treat with all the rigour of the right of conquest, and to enrich themselves at the expence of the unfortunate in habitants. Some officers have gone to join the insurgent Greeks, but the number of these is in considerable, the journey is long, their further prospects uncertain, and most of them are desti tute of the means necessary to go to Turkey. 46 FRANKFORT, JUNE 1.-We have given an idea of the complaint preferred to the Diet by the little P►incipality of Anhalt Coethen, which being entirely enclosed with the line of the Prus sian Custom Houses, is deprived of all free com merce. This is the most delicate affair which the Diet has yet had before it. Prussia declines the competency of the Diet, and the Minister of Austria appeared to incline to the same opinion, but the Diet has resolved by a majority of votes to continue its discussion and to assert its com petency. It has appointed a Refendary and a Co-refendary, who are the Ministers of Bavaria and Hesse. The further progress of this affair is looked to with curiosity and some anxiety - , since it will show whether the great Members or this Confederation will submit to the decisions' of the Diet when they arc disagreeable to them. It is said that Austria has offered its mediation. Prussia, while it asserts its right to subject t 0 its laws of Customs the territories included within its States, has offered to. the Duke of A n halt Coethen an indemnity in money,'which the Dulie has however declined. " AUGSBURGII, MAY 28.—A party of Servian s are in fact in arms. Some of their chiefs are at their head : they are those whose lives are in danger/ and who were to have been beheaded at Bel grade, whither they were invited to repair. The fact, however, is, that there has been no hostili' ties between the Servians and the Turks, wh o are stationed in the fortresses of that country. ---4 The insurrection which was said to have broke" out in Bulgaria is of no consequence. There are besides so many Ottoman troops in that province that it would 'be impossible. for the Greeks t ° . make the slightest attempt. The inhabitants 0' a few villages have lied into the mountains, be", cause they fear the vengeance of the Turks. 44 FROM TIIE BANKS OF THE DANUBE, MAY °' —The Pacha of the Morea has applied to th e English Government of the lonian Islands, plaining, in the strongest terms, that ammun iti ol " of all kinds and even carmen has been sent to th' rebels. lie has threatened to employ the mo st rigorous measures - against the EnglishCornmer c .; and to confiscate the property of the English ' a his power, unless proceedings so hostile are pu t t stop to. It is affirmed that the Pacha has s ei) a circumstantial account to Constantinople. " It is in consequence 'of these remenstranc i e : that injunctions were issued not only to tl ll inhabitants of the lonian Islands, but to a rt, lonians inhabiting Turkey, not to take any P ct . or to favour in any manner any insurrectl, , against the Ottoman Porte all under thre at of some penalties. It is not believed, bowel' that this order will be executed. iC 46 DARMSTADT, JUNE 2.—The negociation g f establishing a commercial alliance in the soutil:, Germany continue. The Ministers and I", ler r o potentiaries of the States who propose to ' II ° ) 1 this alliance had their 7th sitting on the O t May. 44 BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—The Countess o. r do n, ven, lady of the Russian Ambassador at T.° ll ,ie, going from Lille to Frankfort, with her s and Count Narischkin, High Chamberlain to Emperor of Russia, coming from Paris, ha ve . ) rived in this city."--(Brussels Papers, Joe A New York Mail arrived this roar" ln g' pu : the Papers are of old dates.—lia tifax paper' likewise arrived this morning to the 19th May .:- ' . • [From the Ilal.ifax Pape. o' the 18th May] c o l i 0 The Americans have been very s uccess ' their fisheries at NeW South Shetland, discovered last year by. Captain SMITii of Liverpool. Sist," Ave thonsand seal . brought from then ft have been Udvekii;ed for sale at Stobington,C °ll :, necticut, exclusive of ..those caught by ve ssel' from-othervo.rtg._,-Tbe ship Ann, and brig LO', l Trowbridge, of Liverpool (England)..and 504