The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-28 00:00:00

SPHIIT OF THE PUMAC JOCritNSLS evening paper of ye.terday, which prey tended t.o answer our observations, does itself too much honour in supposing—or rather in trying to make its readers suppose—that our t irle of the same day was intended as a reply Pb its Aupid remarks on the franchise of the metro politan districts. We briefly disposed of the whole of its objections in a single paragraph, in -stead of a long article, and do not feel ourselves called upon, by its last night's attack on other grounds, to resume the subject. There is Si) 7,reitt a lack of argument and common honesty in the Anti-Reform press, that though the victory on our part may be secure, the triumph , can Scaacely be reckoned honourable. We shall . therefore abandon it entirely to its own luctibra - tions, and shall address ourselves to a party which views its extravagance with disgust, and which has been persecuted by its abuse without measure and without mercy. If this party, the party Cif " waverers" as they are insultingly de signated, who declare themselves the friends of Reform but the enemies of the Bill, had the industry to read, the docility to learn, or the candour to confess conviction, the should not despair of making them converts to the Ministerial measure in all its integrity of plan or extent of detail. It is with this hope that we have for the present week dis cussed objections which to some of our friends must have appeared already answered, and re peated arguments which to, ourselves: appeared unnecessary. It is with the same hope that we now draw upon the patience of our Reform readers by recapitulating a few of the points whieli we think we have established. " Line upon line, and precept upon precept," is as ne cessary for a neophyte of Reform, as for any other incipient convert. The Reform Bill—our new " Bill of Rights," so necessary to give ef fect to the old—proceeds, as has repeatedly been observed, upon three principles or objects, —namely, disfranchisement, enfranchisement, and extension of suffrage. The first happily admits of no dispute with the moderate Refor mers, who threaten us with an attack on the Bill in Committee. The rotten boroughs are already gone. We shall not stop to say " any evil of the dead," though we can say no good, and have no objection to any•epitaph on them which does not end with the word resztrgam. The enfran chi.ement of , several great manufacturing and commercial tciwns in the provinces is equally se cure. Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and several other marts of business and trade hitherto unrepresented, will appear, after the next elec tion, by their representatives in St. Stephen's as certainly as if they had been called to Parliament :300 years ago. In the qualifica tion for the counties there has been no alte ra-ion which can appear to the enemies of the Bili objectionable. The county constituency has been enlarged by the admission of copy holders and leaseholders ; but both these classes are as respectable, and certainly as harmless, as the old 40s. freeholder. The 35 or 36 mem bers added to the county representation is rather, in the eyes of the weavers, a recommendation than an objection. The qualification in the towns has been more extensively altered„and on these alterations are chiefly grounded the alarms of the "moderate Reformers." Yet what should alarm any sensible reflecting man . in the 101. franchise ? We have proved, to the aris- toerats - that, in many of the old boroughs, this t ualification will be rather a disfranchisement than an extension of popular rights. We have proved, that in none of the smaller'boroughs, entitled to send one member to Parliament, will there be 300 persons qualified to be electors. We have proved that in 84 of the remaining boroughs, only two will have anything approach ing to 1,000 electors. We have proved that only nine or ten will have above 2,000 10/, voters. We have thus included all the old bo roughs and cities at present entitled to send members to Parliament. In many of them the constitueucv wil; be greatly diminished ; in none of them, except those where it is confined to a corporation, r ill it be greatly increased. The four or five new boroughs, such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, and Sheffield, to which the right of returning members is to ex tended by general consent, will, it is true, have a large constituency. But, in.the first place, it cannot be inconveniently large, as the whole of the electors in 26 oldie largest'towns, admitted ~,to elective rights - by the Bill, will not amount to 30.,000, or little more, on an average, than 1,000 ; and in the second place, the members of !bur, five, or six towns could not be danger fOll3 in au assembly of 658 members, in what ever way they are disposed to act, or by whatever influence they were returned. Poor Henry Hunt is an evidence of how little mischief can be done, with the best intentions to be mischiev ous, in a body of sensible or honourable men, under the very worst system of popular election. 'The atistocracy, unhappily, will be strengthened, ?,411,0r than weakened, by the diminution of Jailers ,orcasioned by the till, in all the old horough;, • except, perhaps, 10 or 12. To re medy an imaginary evil, resulting from the al leged excessive number Of electors in five or six of 'the. large provincial towns, it has been proposed to raise the qualification in these towns from 101. to 151. or 20/. We have stated at length what we conceive satisfactory objections to this change, and good. reasons for adhering to the present provisions' of the Bill in their uniform operation over .the Whole of the kingdom. It would be absurd to propose cue rate for Leeds and another for York—one rate for Manchester and another for Lancaster—one rate for Birmingham and another for Coventry ; and yet in none of these old boroughs in the neighbourhood of the new, can any complaint be Made made of the numbers or quality of the constituency which the Bill will create or retain. There then only remain the objections of the " .waverers" to the metropolitan franchise—the Co; and Magog of the Anti-Reform alarmists. On the justice of this part of the Bill, and the absurdity of the terrors with which it has been invested, we are almost ashamed to say more than what we have already said, or to repeat our for . Mer observ at i ons . If wealth, i ntelligenc e,patriousm, knowledge of public affairs, and extent of con -tribution to the public revenue, entitle any portion of the town population of England to a new share !' • 'ofthe franchises taken from the decayed boroughs, the suburbs of London could not, with any ' show of justice or common sense, he overlooked. The metropolis and its suburbs pay nearly the half of the assessments of the kingdom. They are only to receive eight Members—whereas, by any of the foregoing rules, they would be en titled to fifty. The 101. qualification admits a great *orders to - the elective fran c 0, c ens u s, in such an im ense mike a lit-ge conStO cy. The mere 10/. *Ciuie!tldera' (or th4sfltwei n ia and -goo 4/ - 1 - ,~. ill OM be to the rest of the electors as one tl ;hrec, Fo that no other danger can be appre lictuled Iron; the descent. in the scale, which might not be equally apprehended from thf higher census of In the last place, there could be no greater danger of a riotous election in Marylebone, Finsbury, the Tower HamletS, . ' or Lambeth. than in Westminster or Southwark, even though the system of polling .were con,- tinned the same; but by taking the votes in smaller districts, and terminating the election in two days, all danger of tumult or confusion ' at elections are removed. We may therefore conclude by saying that he who could try to excite alarm on the addition of eight Members to the metropolis, on the ground of a tumultu ous election, or a dangerous return, would, in the language of Dr. Johnson, ff have cried out fire' in the time of the deluge."— Times. The meeting, on Tuesday, of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, to the number of 50,000, inclu ding all classes from the great landowner to the honest artisan, united together in asserting the cause of Reform, was not necessary to prove ' that the people are as determined as ever in that cause ; but it will deprive the Anti-Reformers even of a pretext for maintaining the contrary. tie who, in the teeth of all these demonstrations of the deep devotion of the people to Reform, . maintains that they arc indifferent, is either an idiot deserving of our pity, or a shameless knave with whom it would be useless to argue. It is hardly possible to conceive a nearer approxima tion to unanimity, than has been exemplified wherever the people have had opportunities of meeting to express their sentiments. The Con servative party in Edinburgh (which is the head quarters of the Corruptionists) could not muster 300. The odds are as 100 to one. The re formers include a considerable number of the Aristocracy, nearly all the middle classes, and all the lower. The Scotch conceive the 10/. quali fication and the other parts objected to by ' th e waverers essential to the measure—in short, they will not be satisfied with the Bill if it is in any way mutilated. With these demonstrations of' the public feeling, Ministers, even were they disposed to give way to the Anti- Reformers, will see the impossibility of doing so with any regard to their own safety, putting higher motives out of consideration. What the, people have set their minds most on is precisely that which the Anti-Reformers and waverers wish to alter. The people have set their minds on it, for the very reasons which have deter mined the Anti-Reformers to endeavour to alter it, because the alteration would impair the effici ency of the Bill. Were Ministers to yield to the Anti-Reformers they would thereby irritate and provoke the people beyond measure, and en able the Anti-Reformers to triumph over them. There is no security for Ministers but in the attachment of the people. When they lose that they are nothing, Sir James Gibson Craig, at the • Edinburgh Meeting, observed—" Gentle men, you may have entire confidence in Earl Grey.—(Cheers.) The salvation of the coun try is in his hands.—(Loud cheers.) The ma sure must be carried, or consequences the most unfortunate must ensue. Trust to him."—Yet it must be owned the language of Earl Grev on the second. reading was of a complexion to lead the people to abate somewhat of their confidence in his stern determination to yield nothing which should impair the efficiency of the Bill. It must. be owned that the situation of a Premier, endea— vouring to persuade an assembly -against their will, with a people opposed to • that •assembly, narrowly scanning every word he utters, is one of peculiar difficulty. We observed at the time, that every argument advanced by his Lordship to make the measure palatable to the Anti-Reform ers was wormwood to the Reformers. It is, in fact, impossibie to serve God and Mammon ;-and all the resources of eloquence must hail, where the object is to satisfy parties opposed to each other. A writer in Tait's Magazine for May, which we have just received, forcibly illustrates this in commenting (th the debate on the second reading : " 'De very arm with which the Bill was defended in the Commons has been turned against it in the House of Lords. . 4 I+l the House of Lords, the policy of its friends has been to disclaim the principles upon which it is based. Their task is to persuade their illustrious compeers, that the Bill is not calculated to extend the liber ties of the people, or to secure good and cheap Govern ment and Legislation—that, in short, it is the most harm less and inefficient measure that ever was proposed. So phistry so glaring even the logic of the House of Louis is ab'e to expo Ye. ' * 4 Even by the showing of Earl Grey's fr:ends, his conciliatory deportment is only warrantable on the assumption that it is worn to cloak the sternest resolution. When a man makes up his mind tofinesse, lie must not be astonished that even his wed wisher+ are deceived. Earl Grey has selected his course, and will doubtless pursue it—if to a successful issue, with mote heartfelt gr ttitnde from none than front ourselves. But as he is confesetily playing a double game, we must he eKeused if the frailty of our nature lead us to mistrust hint. Fine spun webs of policy are so easily torn asunder, that even with the firmest confidence in the intentions of the attisan, we have little faith in them. In case of tie failure of the vanguard, we must have a reserve ready ; ' and the only one adequate to the present emergency is a united and determined nation." Reform, however, cannot longer be withheld, and less than the measure now before the public will not satisfy the people. So long as Minis ters surround themselves with the people, they are on a rock from which they cannot be driven. For, after all, though the Anti-Rell;rmers are strong in the House of Lords, they are weak every where else. Of all the delusions ever en tertained, that of their coercing a whole nation is assuredly the most absurd. There are at present 25,000 soldiers in Great Britain, and nearly the same number in Ireland. We take it for granted that Ireland cannot spare any troops for the coercion of Britain. As aids to the police, in case of petty local disturbances, the 25,000 soldiers in Britain might be effective enough ; but it is ridiculous to think, even if the men were so disposed, that this handful of soldiers could coerce a mighty nation like this. The Duke of Wellington, though the Great Captain of the age, cannot perform impossibilities. If he were at the helm, he would find himself wi,hout the means of governing in opposition to the sense of the nation. The Aristocracy were strong at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. They had then the body of the people with them. An Aristocracy can only be strong through a nation, and not when opposed to it. Of all the hallucinations ever entertained, that of the Anti-Reformers, that they can coerce the people, is the wildest. The peop!e laugh them to scorn. We often hear a good deal in the Tory prints of that Constitutional force, the Yeomanry. sinuated, The Yeomanry, it is by this in would lend themselves to any plan for the people.i coercing Not they. Times are greatly changed since the Yeomanry prided themselves on being the tools of other landlords. If the Aristocracy therefore count on the Yeomanly, they lean on a broken reed. . The following contribution to our stock of knowledge on this !..iihject i from a ctui,lus article en ire SCottish Yeomanry in the Journal from whicfl ac have already given a quotation:— " The tenantry (says the writer) are in a most gloomy, despondent, and discontented mood ; and being in as I' a l t state as they can well be, no men are more anxious for change of system. They know any rhunge must be ftvoarable to them. No class of men are more thorough g-oing Reformers. In some counties more than ninuteen ,ut of every twenty of the farmers signed petitions to t'arliatn nt for Reform. These petitions were got up en tirely by the tenantry. From nut one county in Scot land has there been a petition by tie tenantry alone against Reform. A few of those who were in arrear of rent have , ar compelled to s;gn such petitions, prepared by their rndlards or their factors ; but this is no more to be con sidered an art of free will, than the retiring to the sanc tuary to avoid imprisonment for their rent. Some cer tainly refused to sign any petition ; they said they would not humiliate themselves by addressing a body which treated their representations with contempt. Scme (we tell it with regret, hut it is right that the Tories should know the whole truth) did not scruple to say that matters were far beyond remedy by a Reform in the representa tion ; that revolution is the only cure ; and that Reform is injurious, by retarding its appro-ch, and by deluding' the people. With such feelings and notions, nothing cx • cites the derision of the tenantry more than the Tory pro. jest to embody them to put dawn Reform. Hence the efforts to raise troops of yeomanry have been singularly un• suceeasful. In Fife it is now nearly a year since we read the appointments of the officers in the Gazette; but we have never beard of the regiment having been seen in the field The Tories have had to pay for the uniforms of such of the tenantry as the state of their accounts with their landlords forced to enlist. It is injurious to a man's credit to be sects in (7 yemnanry uniform ; his rent is suspected to be in arrrar. The most strenuous exertions have been made in many counties, by men of the highest rank, and possessing a numerous tenantry, without their baying been able in same instances to embody a single troop. . Daring the war the whale regiments might have been raised with half the effort. The Lairds have been told by theirte mnta that, on the slightest prospect of foreign invasion, they will rise as readily as they did iu 1803 ; but as the object is to organize a force to protect the Barons in their castles against the consequences of their own misconduct and folly, they will leave them to defend theraaelvei as they hest can. . . . We, therefore, assure our Tawn readers, that the Tories are much mistaken when they think they can make tools of the Scottish yeo manry to aid them to put down freedom. On the con trary, the yeomanry will be found arrayed on the side of liberty, and not rnly their aid may be relied on, but also that of the peasantry, who will readily enlist themselves under the banners of their masters and employers in any political struggle. The peasantry know well the causes of their misery and poverty, and who are to be blamed for it. Whatever, therefore, may be Iv:toting in the day of trial, it will not he men ; for the rural population of Scotland alone will furnish 250,000 able to bear arms." To reason with the Anti-Reformers were useless, hut it is not useless to show them that their cause not only is unjust, but 'hopeless. You may . preach long enough to a robber before you inspire him with a respect for his neigh bour's property; but you may succeed better if you show him that the man whom he is about to attack is better armed than himself, and that the house into which he means to break would be a trap-for him. It is well that they should know that the people are aware of the utmost extent of the mischief they can effect. We defy them to prevent Reform.—Morning Chronicle. For several years past, whenever a statement has been made in Parliament of the declining prosperity of commerce, or the peculiar distress of any branch of trade or manufactures, the practice has been for the Minister who takes cognizance of this subject to endeavour to dis guise the red state of the iacts, to refute the practical evidence of experienced men, and an swer the voice of public complaint by producing a bundle of official documents, which, if they do-not directly state what is false, are elaborately contrived to mystify the truth. The returns of the annual imports and expos is of' the country have been made great use of from time to. time, bY different Administrations, to convey erroneous impressions as to the actual state of trade and commerce. The late Mr. Huskisson was parti cularly expert in paper•demonstrations of the increasing prosperity of a falling trade. The shipowners still recollect how completely, to . the satisfaction of a crowded House of Commons—in which the cheers of the " political economists were, at that time, much more powerful than the suggestions of common sense—he made their affairs flourish in all the glowing colours of documentary im provement, though his destructive policy had actually smote them with the cold hand of ruin. In this sort of official mystification he has not an unworthy successor in 'Mr. Poulett Thomson, whose discovery of the " fructifying principle of money" in the pockets of those who have none would, undoubtedly, have entitled him to a very high degree of reputation among the ingenious philosophers of Swift's " flying island." One circumstance which has greatly contributed to the deception practised upon the public mind by official returns of exports and imports is, that the official value, not being the real value, is itself a deception. We recollect that, two or three years ago, Mr. Alderman 'Waithinan parti cularly directed the attention of the House of Commons to this point, and proved the fallacy of the Ministerial deductions from the returns, by showing the difference between the official and the actual value of the goods exported. In the present year the same Hon. Member gave notice of moving a string of resolutions relative to the important and interestin g question of the actual state of trade, founded on the official returns, distinguishing the real front the official value, and thereby showing the increase or the decrease in the quantity of goods exported, and the enhancement or depreciation in price. 'These resolutions have been more than once postponed, in conse quence of other business, or there being " no House." They are, however, to be moved soon alter the recess. Having seen a printed copy of them, we can take upon ourselves-to say -that the calculations on which they are founded will show a decrease in the exports, which, notwith standing our increased population, amounts, in the 11 years from 1819—the year of Peel's Currency Bill—to 1830, to not less than six millions and a quarter per annum. They will also show that, from the sth of January, 1819, to the sth of January, 1830, the real value, as compared with the official value, had suffered a depreciation, upon the average of the five latter years, to the vast annual amount of nearly 19,000,0001.—while it appears that, in the last two years, a further depreciation has taken place amounting to upwards of 3,000,000/. It may he inquired how it happens that there should be so great a difference between the official and the th real e divalueffer difference e t o lead d believe,persons lookingacquainted att with l e Parliamentary r e t urns o f our export trade, u y iffme t dr h e e dg r eaat official lgyr eparto svpdaeleurpeerde,csilea‘t,thi forth,depreciation ill f, t .ra h ei at ti"tilierfilltarsa s o d n e i official value, then, is an estimate founded on the rate of prices in the Custom-house books, formed at a distant period, and which, though originally the same as the actual value, affords no criterion of the actual value at present, though it may have its use in relatively showing the in crease or deptession of expos is in a series of years as to ale quant ityyear a e n n c d l ing price. sth T of January, hus it tuiLr appears y, that, from 1799, in which year the declaration of goods exported in real value was first declared, the e exceeded the amount of our exports in real valu ' official value -by inbre th - an 12 millions i • annum; and in the year ending 1803, the exec of the real over the official value amounted m 19,906,437/., or, we may say in round n u m b er , to about 20 millions. From that year, howeve , a depreciation in the real, as compared with the offieia I value of our exported goods took place, so that the excess of the former over the latter had diminished in the time which elapsed between the Peace of Amiens and the passing of Pee( Currency Bill to 5,615,563/., or better than 5-i i millions. After the year 1819 the excess was on the other side, that is, the official value became greater than the real value ; and we find that in the year 1824, five years after the passing of Peel's Bill, the official value exceeded the real by 4,202,486/. ; making a difference between that year and the year 1819 of nearly ten millions of depreciation !—the excess of official over the real value in 1830 was 13,215,406/. ; making a depreciation compared with the year 1819 of nearly nineteen millions. To show the use which Government has made of the returns of the official value to deceive the public, Alder man ‘Vaithman refers to the speech from the Throne at the commencement of the year 1830, in which it was said that the exports had ex• ceeded those of any former year, and afforded indications of active commerce." Now what was the truth of the matter ? The exports had exceeded those of the former year in quantity, as denoted by Ocial valuation, to the amount of 3,445,955.—but in real value they fell below those of the former year by 937,5061. ; making a depreciation in that one year of 4,383,4611. Thus did the Duke of Wellington's Administra tion make use of those official returns to deceive the nation, and give an impression of commercial prosperity which did not exist. We shall take another occasion to advert to the state of the lin_ ports.—Morning Herald. We published on Thursday, for the amuse ment and edification of our readers, a full report of the proceedings of a Political Union at New castle-upon-Tyne, as a sample of the temper and feelings of those self-constituted bodies which his Majesty's present enlightened and liberal Minis ters permit to exist, in contempt of the King's Proclamation and in defiance of the law. Do the Ministers' then still rely upon the assistance of illegal confederacies, whose members publicly proclaim their determinatiOn to refuse the pay ment of taxes, should Parliament neglect or delay to legislate according to their dictation ? Or is the connivance of the Administration in this continued outrage upon Law and Govern inept the result merely of contempt towards the offenders, who would be indeed merely ridi culous were it not that their language tended to the production of riot And bloodshed ? We think Ministers can scarcely be so infatuated as to regard these seditious Associations as the objects merely of contempt, although the character and menaces of the orators who figure among them are sufficiently contemptible. For while their threat not to pay taxes if the Reform Bill should be rejected or mutilated is only ridi culous, inasmuch as few of their number have any direct taxes to pay, it is mischievous also, inasmuch as such language is calculated to in , flame the passions of the ignorant multitudes who hear or read their speeches, and to diffuse the senti ment of disrespect to law and authority. That these club orators are known in their respective neigh bourhoods to be men without reputation or import ance is little to the purpose. Their inflamma tory speeches and resolutions travel beyond the sphere in which their personal and social insigni ficance can operate as an antidote to the poison they diffuse. . For instance, the threat not to pay their assessed taxes, when uttered by the members of the Political Union of London, is laughed at in the metropolis, where every body knows how inexpressibly small a fraction of the national revenue these worthies can ever have the opportunity to withhold. The orators of the Newcastle Club excite no doubt in that good town similar hilarity. But we beg to re mind his Majesty's wise and prudent Ministers that the effect upon the minds of the ignorant and vulgar is somewhat different when the Lon don speeches are promulgated at Newcastle, and the Newcastle speeches in London. Distance baffles time senses or. mankind, and calls their imagination into play. When seen and heard from afar, pigmies may be mistaken for giants, and the braying of an ass for the roaring of a lion. In candour we are bound to express our belief that time Nobleman at the head of his Majesty's Government has no wish that any more Custom houses should. be burnt down - by mobs, in the cause of Reform. The extreme contrast between his speeches f the present Session and of the last shows that the events at Beistol have made a due impression on his mind, and that he is now convinced of the danger and impropriety of inflammatory orations, when delivered by Minis ters of State. This is a step, at , least, in the right direction. Now we would submit to the improved judgment of Earl Grey whether a Go vernment which encourages the delivery of effu sions tending obviously and directly to the de struction, by mobs, of custom-houses and ex cise-offices (in'such a case it will not be denied that to permit without legal rebuke is to encour age) will not 'be to all intents and purposes particeps criminis, in the event of the future perpetration of such violent and atrocious acts ? The remorse on account of past errors and calamities, - for which we are ready to give the Noble Earl credit, most be less deep and effectual than - we would wish to suppose if he hesitate as to the proper answer to this question. Let us now propose another question to the Noble Earl, the answer to which must be quite as free from dif ficulty. Some persons there are, although we believe but few, who are payers of assessed taxes, and who in the Political Unions of Lon don and other places have boasted their deter mination, and have been applauded for the boast to withhold payment provided the House cf Lords exercise an independent judgment upon the provisions of the Reform Bull. Some of these persons 'are manufacturers, employing a c onsiderable number of workmen. Now our question to Earl Grey is. this :—lf Government tolerate the illegal Societies in which such threats are uttered, and neglect to execute the law in t h e case of the manufacturers, whether they be engineers or cotton-spinners, or anything else who dare to utter them, can the same Go vertnnent afterwards when the workmen of such masters, acting in the spirit and under the stimulus of this unreproved sedition, shall per chance proceed to set fire to the Custom House or time Excise Office, inflict the last fatal penalty o f the law with any regard to consistency, ho nour, humanity, or justice ? The question is, not whether certain persons who make a trade of politics, and would be the first to forget their threat whenever an attempt to execute it may seem likely to make the trade a losing one, will pay their taxes or not, for this would be indeed a very slight and frivolous question ; but 'he question really is, whether the Govern- :vent is not bound, in justice and hurnanitr,. to • take the necessary means of chastising spirit, or the affectation of it, which cannot be displayed without extending itself to classes of society among whom it must act of necessity, if it act at all, by deeds of violence to classes of society who can manifest their hostility to the revenue of the State in no other way than by the destruction of its offices or the massacre o: its collectors ? We hope the Government is sufficiently sensible by past experience of the in convenience of having first incurred the climes which they were afterwards compelled to punish. If so, our present remonstrance will not be dis regarded. His Majesty's Ministers will assur edly be responsible beinre God and min for every act of violence which may be produced in the United Kingdoms by political excitement and exasperation, if they do not immediately bring to condign punishment the incendiaries of the political unions, who are daily labouring to ex cite their fellow-subjects to the perpetration of crime.—Morning Post. MONEY MARKET.-CITY, FRIDAY. The abundance of unemployed capital in the City is becoming daily more apparent, and the current rate of interest is now lower than it has been for some weeks past. This is one of the favourable consequences attendant on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Peers. Had the me& sure been rejected, it cannot be doubted for a mo ment but that the panic would have become so gene ral as to produce a great change in pecuniary affairs arid a funding of Exchequer Bills unavoidable. Such a state of things is what capitalists have been looking for, to afford them an opportunity of laying out their wealth to - advantage. Some millions were locked up, from which no profit was derived. They have fortunately, however, been deceived in their calcu lation, and by the increased confidence and compara ti re prosperity that have already been manifested, are; as it were, left in the lurch. Under the circum stances to which we have just referred, it is not very extraordinary that the Public Securities should have maintained their present high prices. Exchequei Bills have to-day advanced to a premium of 16, and this improvement will afford to Government the option of funding or not, as may ba thought most advisable, during the remainder of the year. If the demand for Exchequer Bills continues as great as it has been during the last two day., it may be fully expected that the premium will be doubled very shortly, investments in them being attended with so little risk. It is said that private bankers and others who have always a large amount on hand, have ad ded to it very considerably since the rise in stock.— Morning Chronicle. Some tendency to decline, though not to a mate rial extent, was noticed in the foreign exchanges this afternoon. It is remarkable that, notwithstand ing the high rate of exchange with Paris, which would appear favourable to such an operation, we receive scarcely any gold from France. Had the exchange with Paris turned as much against, as it is now in favour of this country, the exportation would no doubt have been considerable. This difference is owing to the defective state of our mint regulations, which do nut afford the facilities which commerce requires, in the conversion of bullion into specie, and its importation, therefore, only takes place as matter of necessity, or with some definite object, such as the supply of the Bank of England, in view. This is an evil which it is hoped will, among others, come under the notice of the Committee about to be ap pointed on the affairsof banking in general.—Times. It may be useful to remind travellers proceed ing to Tuscany through the Genoese States, that their passports must be inspected by the Tuscan Consul at Genoa, otherwise they will not be allowed to pass the frontiers if they arrive by land, or to disentbzu k if they take the route by sea to Leghorn. A letter from Genoa, dated the 14t states that all vessels coming from the ports of Franch are (on account of the cholera) subjewed to a quarantine o e seven days.— Galignani's Messenger. THE MAIL COACHES. -- It has been stated in some of the papers that it was the intention of the mail-coach contractors to discontinue running the mails with four horses and in their place a light carriage with two horses would be substituted. This arrangement, however, if made, cannot be carried into effect until the expiration of the ensuing three years, when the contract with Mr. VIDIER will expire. The contract is renewed every seven years, when the contractor is rrquired to find suretit s to the amount of 20,000/. to keep the mails in a proper condition to perform the various journeys, and for which he is paid at the rate of threepence per mile : an extra allowance of course is made for new c,rriages when they are required. The con tract with the coach proprietors for working the mails is renewed every three months, and the Post-office stipulate to viy 9d. and on some roads where the mail travels at great speed, 10d. per mile for the conveyance of letter bags. Representations have fu. some time past been made to the Post-office by the coach proprietors, that the sum they receive does not sufficiently compensate them for the exp?nse they are compelled to incur in consequence of the rapid manner in which the mails proceed ; but hi therto those representations have been ineffectual. The Chester mail was taken off the road a short time ago, in consequence of the proprietors being unable to work it with the Post-office allowance; and it is expected that the coach proprietors will refuse to enter into fresh contracts for some of the other mails, unless more liberal terms are offered them. The Chester bags are now conveyed to Lich field by the Liverpool mail, and from thence conveyed in a cart to Chester. IMPORTATION OF ICE.—A singular entry was made at the Custom -house on Wednesday, viz. that of a cargo of ice. In consequence of the mildness of the winter, the supply of ice in the vicinity of the metropolis was not at all equal to the demands of the confectioners and dealers in this article of luxury. In order to meet the demand, two vessels were freighted some time back to pro eeed to Norway, there to take in cargoes of ice. One of the vessels, the Sophie, arrived in the river on Wednesday, and the speculation is likely to prove, a very profitable one, ice king now d ou bl e th e price it bore at this time last ye +r. The duty imposed on ice, the produce of foreign countries, is five shillings a ton, and the whole of the cargo of the Sophie has been sold, it is stated, at five shillings per cwt. As the ice is obtained in the; higher latitudes at the cost of labour only, the profits may be con sidered pretty fair The other vessel laden with the same commodity is expected to arrive in a few days. A curious statement is circulated connected with the first importation of ice from abroad. The Custom-house officers seized the ship and cargo for the paytneat of duty, the cargo being foreign produce. The Commissioners were appealed to in order that the ship might be released, there being no fixed duty placed on ice. The delays that then took place in the hearing of appeals led to an unfortunate result, as the ice had completely melted away by the then prevailing bea.., and the cargo was consequently rendered valueless before the Commissioners arrived at any decision. A most disgraceful scene of riot and confusion occurred in Liskeard Church on Easter Sunday, arising from the extremely reprehensible conduct of several indi viduals in forcing an entrance into the singing -gallery of that pLce of worship. Objections, it appears, had been male by the leader of the choir to their taking their seat, in the place alluded to ; and in consequence, previously to the commencement of morning service, one of the church wardens stationed himself at the foot of the stairs leading thereto, fur the purpose of intercepting them, should au attempt be made at entrance. A few minutes, however, after the officiating clergyman bad entered the desk, the persons of jected to, accornpinied by a posse of their frit nds f i a t : to overcome t iie gale that rn entered the church, and, after considerable noise, and seve ral minutes' scuffling with the churchwarden, succeeded in obtaining forcible entry into the gallery. Many per sons evinced their disapprobation by hissing. Man) others, shocked at the confusion and clamour which reigned in every part of the church, immediately left their pews, , e ' r ' i . t a r s an s c o e and retired altogether ; and the minister, a most worthy and highly-respected i o n r d e i i v n i:u a a i l i for several minutes after the noise had subsided he cou!d not commence the service of the day. In the evening a repetition of the former part of the scene took place, the same parties again 1 but these was no singing throughout the day, the leader ►.f the choir, in consequence, hiving absented himself. We understand it is more than prob►ble the offendert. will have cause to regret . their more than forgetfulness of every thing like decorutn, as the matter will, most likely, come before a high tribrin A ' wet y shortly, —Plymouth Journal. the Lady of Sir David Cu O n i N l yn t BIRTHS. On the 20th inst. at Southampton, the lady of Alfred G. GiMat, Es a r l o t f h t d : s u t i f i h i t i e - r s t. Mrs. James Smith Morton, Charterhouse street, of a daughter. g h a e m 2 e l , st of i 11 4, 1 r ß ag ru , g n e s s r , t eolfgaiurmn,. MARRIED. ~ • Richard Windeyer, Esq.. of Delahay-street, Westminster, ~ On the 26th inst. at Speldhurst, by the Rev. J. J. Saint, A.., , e second daughter of William Cornfield, Esq., of Burn .. Armstrong, of the-loyal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, to Mary' church of St. Mary-le-Strand, Dr' Richard :Sale, On the ‘21411 inst. at Wisbech„Tohn Hicks, of Lincoln's-in" barrister, to Harriet, third daughter of the late John Cookso"' ss'lse•loc(2o.Er,,,diiiiia,dt'tini,hieeeaa2 fu r 2igt.6l l :, ; ti r iie r n n r si b oiti r .is i . dtsigitreastiNt? Shark's l ar s t , r Esq., of Leeds. _ or Somerset-place. , Emma, youngest daughter of Wm. Leedhani, Esq., of Ken nington-common. of Esq , of Barrow.upomTrent, Derbystiire t r On the t!fith inst. at Ctayford, Kent, Alfred Clint, fifth son , _ George Clint, Esq., A.R. A of London-street, Fitzroy-square , , u k S "; PP C i l n ur gs r ' cli. Kennington, Surrey' --- Jane, eldest daughter of Mrs..' Laughton, of Bexley- freth Kent. DIED. On the 2. - 2,1 inst., at her residence, in Maidstone, aged 79, Elizabeth, relict of the late Thomas Bea, Esq., of Park House. Boxley, Kent. On the 2oth irst at Southampton, Mary Anne, wife of Major • General Burrower. On the 26th inst, at Streatham, Surrey, Robert Brown Russel, Esq., aged 35, Cornet in his Majesty's 20th Light Dragoons. On the 25th inst. in George-street, Portman-square, Ann, eldest daughter of the late Rev. James French, of Stratford -le' Bow, Midalesex, and rector of Varge, Essex. On the 25th inst. at Highgate, in the 78th year of his age, Joba Cook, Esq., late of the Navy Office, where he had served forty years. yeoarnotfliheislgatglie:l‘,sitr..a.itolh'iair3istko.rf t e( l , i r e y, e t h . h o e le w ra elTk or n b o u w s n , pinrinttheerf:ttlei_ of London, but formerly of Liverpool, PRINTED AND Pußusitno DY N U RDO YOUNG, AT TOO SUN OFFICE ► 112, STRAND ► LONDON, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. Froni the London Sew Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The new arrivals of Muscovadei brought to .narket this week have been much in demand, but such Is 'the lesire of the holders to secure the present prices, that they have pressed forward the sales at a reduction of about Is. aer cwt. ; the estimated sales are 1,800 hhds. and tees. The Barbados sale to-day was Is. a Is, lid. lower. This morning there is a better supply of Sugars, a change of the wind having brought in many arrivals from the south and west. Mid. Tobago sold from 15s. fid. a 525., good mid. ditto, 535. ; good Antigua, with colour, from 545. a 575. The grocers seem inclined to enlarge heir purchases, but only where the sellers will submit to the above reduction, and considering the late . large' imports of Mauritius Sugar, their expectations to buy tin' easier terms cannot create much surprise, particularly as the little encouragement the Refiners experience from the com parative low prices of their manufactured - goods deters them from becoming large purchasers. In the Refined market this afternoon there is little alteration to notice; the quota tions are in a great measure nominal. This evening large and small Lumps remain nominally the same as last week, hut the Market continuing to be scantily supplied with these sorts, the Refiners refuse to submit to lower offers ; a few parcels, how ever, of good small Lumps and single Loaves were bought by our melters Is. under former transactions; Rio. fid. was freely offered for fine crashed at the end of last week, but as the Refiners generally ask 355. a 3fis. for good quality, the actual sales are only moderate at 345. ; in the lower qualities .of crashed there is also but little doing. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—There haslonly been one public sale of 4,801 bags of Mauritius Sugars, which went off at a decline of Is. on the better sorts, but for the lower descriptions, from their comparative scarcity, former rates were paid, tine brown selling from 50s. a 50s. Gd. ordinary strong gray 50s. Gd. a 515., good and fine gray 535. a 535. Gd. ordinary yellow 50s. 6d. a 515., good yellow 51s. 6d. a s'2s. fine yellow 545. a 545. Gd. The arrivals are very heavy, 45,030 bags Mauritius; also 17,150 bags of East India. 1 FOREIGN SUGARS.—This article continues in good general demand; but as the quantity offering for sale is very limited, no transactions of any moment have occurred. Tester. day 338 chests and 130 bris. Pernambuco were put up by public auction, and, considering the very indifferent quality of nearly the whole parcel, good prices were obtained, and the sale went off with considerable animation; very low soft yellowish white from 21s. a 235., middling ditto soft 245. a 27s.,,goodAitto-soft 275. 6d. a 285., two lots very good white strong 295. a 295. 6d., two small lots coloury soft yellow 19s. a 20s. The present prices of Brazil Sugar have advanced since the beginning of this year about 4s. on browns, and 4s. to ss. on white. Havannahs remain much the same as regards yellow, but the whites are 3s, a 4;. dearer. A further advance is very generally expected, owing principally to very unfavourable accounts lately received from the Brazils respecting the new crop, which will be far short in quantity as well as quality, to that of last year. The arrivals bring 139 cases and 6S brls. Bahia, and 948 boxes Havanna!). COFFEE.— There have been no public sales of Coffee this week, but the inquiries by private contract have been consider. able ; the prices are fully maintained. By private contract there is little or no demand for British Plantation; the trans. actions are confined to about 1,500 bags Foreign, which have changed hands at rother improving prices, good ord. Brazil at 575., fine ord. 595. to 60s. ; St. Domingo, good ord. 58s. to 595., and for superior parcels 60s. is reported to have been paid. East India of low quality is also more in demand, but no parcels are to be met with under 6d., and these are of very inferior quality. This morning the market had again every appearance of inactivity. The arrivals consist of 2,190 bags of St. Do mingo, and 8,060 bags East India. This day's public sale 75 casks, chiefly Jamaica mid., taken in at 875., which according to market prices was worth 905.; the grocers will not purchase except at lower prices. Foreign is firm, and more sales of good ord. Brazil at 575. RUM, BRANDY, AN D DOLL A NDS.—The Rum Market continues without change, very dull. Brandy is in more re quest here; in France the prices have advanced considerably, on account of the damage done to the vines by frost. In Ge neva there is no alteration. TALLOW.—The Tallow Market is steady. INDIGO.—The Market is firm, but the purchases are not extensive; there are few parcels offering for sale. The latest accounts from Calcutta estimate the crop at 120,000 maunds. TEA.—The Market remains with very little stirring in it ; Boheas that cost 2s. are at 34d. to lid. premium, and Congous at There is nothing doing in Twankays and Hysons. SILK—The Silk Market continues lively, and Thrown Silks find ready sale; prices remain steady. COCHINEAL—By public sales of Cochineal yesterday 84 bags were advertised, only about one-third were sold at flora par to 3d. under the last sale; the remainder were bought in. TOB A CCO.—In Tobacco there are no sales of any extent to report. OlLS.—Sperm Oil is rather lower, on account of extensive arrivals. COTTON—The sales this week are 400 Surat, ord. 4 good 314 d. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the ?4th day of April, 1832, is 2Ss. 10d. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. PRICES OF HoPS.—April 27. Kent Pockets Os. 6i. 2s. te 81. Os. Sussex Ditto 41 15s. it. 12s. to tile. 01. Ersex Ditto 5/. Os. 51. 15i. to 71. Os. Farnham Ditto. Fine 9!. Os. 121. Os. to 01 Os. Seconds 01. Os. 71. OS to 9! Os. Kent 41. 10s. 5!. 12 s to M. 15s. i.ussex Ditto Essex Ditto WAIP 31. 15s 51. OS to 5/. 12s. PR Ofr Ripe Oil, brown Os. Refined 0 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 10 10 Rape Cake, per WIiII'ECHAPEL HAY 51 AHKET.—ApriI 26. Hay 555.0 d. to 90s. Od. I ( lover—.. 80s W. to 120 s. Od. Straw---... 284 Od. to :l8•. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—ApriI 27. Kidneys Scotch Reds • 0/. Os. to 3/. ss. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws 21. ss to 24 los. ditto. LLAlftbh. Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.. 12 15 Spanish Ditto 14 P 1 Per dozen. _ _ Calf Skins,. 38 to 4:lkb. 15 al Ditto 50 to 781 b. 17 2 1 Ditto 70 to 801 b. Small Seals. Greenland 181 / 1) Llrge 12 15 rat t..hb U Per lb. Butts, English 16 21 Ditto, Foreign 14 18 Dressing 13 151 Ditto l6 18 Ditto, light Clop Hides, light 12 13 to 451 b. 131 15 Ditto _ 15 161 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Best Heifers& Stoers2 62 8 I Ordinary 2 4 Market 6 0 erach,_ SHEEP SKINS. 54. Ocl. to 7s. Od. I Downs 6d. to 48.6 d. Os. NI. to 08. Polled PRICE 01 The price of Store Candles, in tl Candles, per doz. is. Od. to As. Od. CANDLES. PRICE OF TALLOW Town Tallow 455. Od. Yellow 435• lid White 49.5. Od. Soap Ditto 49.5. Od. Melted 355. Od. Ditto Rough,..— 225. Od. :he retail shops , Is as follows :-- . I Moulds, per dozen—cis. , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap„ Mottled 6614. 14s. uo• Graves •••••N0w.,.........••••••• 4P. " Good Graves , ss. Pd. PRICE 01 , - RAW FAT, per stone of Price of Tallow (as stated by the Fallow Melters)„,„„,„,aft. 6d. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK• Per Quarter. A shburn-,...... Basingstoke Bath Bridgewater —.,... Bristol oy•WN,,,OW‘O./..W. Chesterfield ---- Derby Devizes Doncaster Exater Elungerford Newbury Romsey Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet Taunton Ye0vi1,,,,, Per Bushel. Shrewsbury Wheat. CO 66 56 70 44 66 54 70 sti 5S 64 60 68 66 70 .'i7 68 50 64 49 65 52 66 48 66 54 75 56 64 56 62 44 72 58 72 52 66 s. d. s. d. 93 98 Barley. Oats. ^ IBeans. 40 43 !22 66 28 36 20 25 0 49 !, - 2 28 26 29 22 26 31 89 20 23 30 42 19 25 38 46 23 28 30 42 22 28 36 44 16 25 30 25 18 20 32 36 18 21 26 39 18 25 t 6 33 20 27 44 99 27 39 120 32 30 36 21 28 37 27 34 43 20 26 32 :19 120 26 31 20 -- 32 36 19 •ta s. d. s. d s. d. 5. d -5 6 601 3 0 60 40 48 40 46 33 46 28 3 6 36 4 2 31 4'2 34 40 39 40 4344 17 '44 49 40 44 34 44 - 48 34 4‘.! - 65 - 44 36 46 • 36 4!: 38 -- 32 :16 s. d. 00 0 0