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carried to the hospitals. In private houses also the disease was raging frightfully. Pursuant to the intention we on Tuesday an nounced, we propose to take as a text for some observations upon the monetary state of the country, Mr. MUNDELL'S dissertation upon money restraints, and his theory of the rise in the exchangeable value of money. We shall follow his example by laying before our readers, in the first instance, a brief statement of the past and present condition of our industry. For, although we believe it has been more affected by causes not taken into account by Mr. MUNDELL than by others upon which he chiefly dwells, we think with him that it is essential to show that its main springs are unimpaired. It appears by the official returns quoted by Mr. MUNDELL, that, with the exception of some slight checks, in the five years ending 1780, the five years ending 1795, and the five years end ing 1815, our shipping ever since 1775 has gone on regularly and steadily increasing ; that the tonnage of foreign vessels entering our ports has also increased, but not since 1815, in the same proportion as our own. This fact alone, as Mr. MUNDELL observes, ought to be suffi cient to dispell the fears of the alarmists with re spect to the operation of our reciprocity system. We know that the ship-owners bring forward long statements respecting their losses. We doubt not that the value of their property has been depreciated like the value of all other pro perty, not in the remotest degree connected with the reciprocity system ; but till they can show us that they have ceased to build, we must, with all submission, conclude that they hope to derive some profit from it, and that they are no more affected than all other classes. The amount of our exports gives as little sign of our manufactures being displaced in foreign markets, as the amount of tonnage cleared outwards indi cates that our shipping is being superseded by that of foreigners. In the year 1800, the official value of our exports was 22,831,9361., and in 1831 it amounted to 60,090,1231. As the official value is a measure of quantity, this Shows that nearly three times the amount of manufactures was exported last year, as com pared with 1800. The declared or actual value of our exports in 1800 was 36,929,007/., and, in consequenc e of the great depreciation of all manufactures since that period, the declared or actual value of the much larger quantity of ma nufactures exported in 1831 was somewhere about 200,000/. less than the smaller quantity exported in the former period. The official value of our imports have in the same period risen from 28,257,781/. to 4 9,713,889/. Hay -14 thus established that our national industry has increased, Mr. MUNDELL goes on to argue that the immense fall of prices exhibited in the difference between the official and declared value of our exports, which began to make itself ge nerally manifest in 1811, is to be attributed to the rise which then took place in the exchange able value of money, occasioned by the defalcation in the supply of gold and silver from the South American nines, arising out of the disturbances ill the ancient Spanish colonies. Mr. M. as serts that no cause can be assigned for the de pression which has been continually going on since 1811, except this defalcation in the Ame rican mines, the annual supply from which before the Revolution he makes nearly forty-eight mil lions of dollars, but which has since fallen off to twelv e millions. Upon what authority he states the produce of the South American mines in 1810 at forty-eight millions ofdollars we are at a loss to imagine, for although our Consuls there have forwarded us some returns of late years upon which a guess might be founded, they are ac knowleged to be of little value, and we have no evi dence which can be depended upon later than that of HUMBOLDT, which does not come down to a later period than 1803. But even if w e grant that so large a falling-off did immediately take place upon the breaking out of the troubles, we hardly see how we can fairly attribute to it the depression which Mr. M. almost exclu sively attributes to it. We do not doubt that the falling-off in the supply of the precious metals was one cause of the depression which shortly began to take place, but it was only one of very many causes. Mr. IVIuNDELL, however, makes it the sole cause of the depression which took place in 1 811, as well as subsequently. That other causes have been in operation Mr. M. is com pelled to acknowledge, for 'he admits that de pression has fallen much more heavily on some articles than upon others ; whereas if the cause he assigns were the sole cause, or even the main cause, the depression would be equal upon all articles, or pretty nearly so. Mr. M. appears to have had floating in his mind some vague i dea of the possibility of such an objection be ing urged, for he says " the differences of de pression can be accounted for from circum stances applicable to each branch of m anufacture, b ut it can no more be explained how depression should increase upon every article every year, than it can be explained how a great and sudden depression should have begun in the year 18 11 , otherwis e t h an in a defalcation in the supply of gold and silver from the mines." We might urge against Mr. MUNDELL that the de pression began befor e 1811, before the sup ply from the mines fell off, and when the Bank was making large issues of pa- Per ; but what we contend for is, that even taking his own statement he does not succeed in showing that a diminution of three-fourths of the previous annual supply from America is sufficient to produce the effect he ascribes to it; whilst there is no article, for the depreciation of w hich causes may not be assigned sufficient almost of themselves to produce that effect, with out at all taking into account that which Mr. AL says is the only cause. We will instance two articles, the state of which will refute Mr. both affirmatively and negatively. Our cotton anufactures have been depreciated to an enormous extent, but the fall in the price of the raw mate and th e i mprovements i n machinery, will lll i i . ea p, r . ly account for the whole of the difference een their present price and their price in 1810. On the other hand, umbrellas and para sols, as stated by Mr. 'MUNDELL himself, have the same official and declared value, which may be accounted for from the fact of machinery entering less into their manufacture than into that of cotton. Indeed we do not suppose Mr. MUNDELL will deny that we di) export articles, the declared value of which is greater than their official value. He is evidently very much at a loss for an article which will show the amount of depression arising from the defalcation in the South American mines, independently of the depression arising from other causes, and un luckily for him he pitched upon the article of tin as bearing out his argument. What he says is this :—" The Cornwall mines are worked now exactly as they were in 1814. Tin is got no where else in Europe ; and at present from no other than the Cornwall and Banca mines. We have, therefore, in some measure, a monopoly of the article, and are able to suit the supply to the demand, the increase of which, as it should seem, should be to increase the price. Yet the quan tity exported has increased yearly since 1814, until the last three years that it has fallen off. The finance accounts do not enable me to state how much depression fell upon the tin in common with other articles of export in 1811 ; but since 1814, the depression amounts to upwards of 50 per cent., which, as it appears to me, can be ascribed only to the defalcation in the supply of gold and silver from the mines, increased by the consequences attending the return to cash pay ments in 1819, and the putting down of the small notes in 1826." It is no wonder that the finance accounts do not enable our industrious friend to state the amount of depression upon tin in 1811, for it so happens that there was no depression, that the price continued pretty firm in 1812 and 1813, and actually rose in 1814. It is true that it afterwards falls to his heart's content ; not in consequence of the de falcation in the supplies of gold and silver, but in consequence of the produce of the Cornish mines being, by improved and cheapened ma chinery, gradually raised from 2,300 tons to 4,000 and odd tons, and to the Banca mines having produced within two or three years of their having come into our possession 2,000 tons and upwards, or half the present produce of our own mines. The quantity of tin produced then having been at least trippled, and the cost of producing it having been considerably reduced by improved machinery, may sufficiently account for its being depressed 50 per cent. without having recourse to Mr. MUNDELL'S universal cause. Having, we think, shown that the falling-off in the supply of the precious metals does not deserve to have so much weight attached to it as Mr. MUNDELL imagines we are willing to admit that it is one among many causes of the condition to which our industry is undeniably reduced. Mr. MUNDELL proceeds to contend that it was from neglect of the Bank in taking notice of the falling-off in the supply of gold and silver, with some other causes, which brought about the panics of 1815 and 1816, and 1825 and 1826. For the reasons we have already stated, we cannot think the Bank so blameable in this particular as Mr. MUNDELL would have us imagine ; but we quite agree with him that the monopoly of the Bank, and the exclusive privileges it enjoys, are the causes of the insecurity of other banks, of their frequent failure, and the consequent ruin they occasion. As he truly observes, in Scotland " the most perfect security has been the consequence of the most perfect freedom." Experience has as much proved that there a sound system of banking prevails, as it has that in England we are afflicted with a vicious system. That the Bank Charter cannot be renewed upon its present terms, appears to be universally admitted ; but we refrain from saying what we think the terms of the renewal ought to be, till we have had an opportunity of examining the evidence which has been taken before the Secret Committee of the House of Commons. The following are extracts from Dutch and Brussels Papers received this morning : THE HAGUE, AuG. 2G.—His Majesty the King has returned to this place from the Loo. His Majesty's birth day was celebrated on the 24th by the troops in camp at Ryen, with every manifestation of attachment to our re vered Sovereign. The troops in the camp are very healthy ; and, in case the cholera should unfortunately appear there, a woode❑ building, containing every requisite, has been erected, and fitted up as an hospital. We have now received Java papers, from the 21st of February to the 29th of March, which, however, contain nothing of importance. THE CHOLERA. SCHWENINGEN, Auc. 26.—The three last remaining patients recovered to-day, and we had no new cases. The disorder has been two months here, 1. e., from the 25th of June. The whole nualber of eases has been 616 ; deaths, 265; recovered, 360. New Cases. Deaths. Recovs. TUE, HAGUE, AUG. 24, 25, 26 24 11 16 AmsTEituANi, AUG. 24, 25, 26 159 82 19 nine, LEY AUG. 24. DUTCH FUNDS.—ANisTennytt, Ann. 27. Actual Debt, 2% per ... 43f to 4314 Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 73% to 73% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 96X, to 97 Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent B3 to 83% —Dutch Papers, Aug. 28. (From the Moniteur Beige.) BRUSSELS, AUG. 27.—We are sorry tosee the Courier Beige return to suppositions which have no foundation, and the smallest inconvenience of which is not that they cause alarm in the country. There is no idea whatever of the recal of General Goblet. Some are astonished, but no reflecting persons can give credit to articles of correspond ence so absurd as those which souse French papers admit into their columns. Every thing that is stated in an extract from one of those articles of correspondence, copied by the Courier, is pure invention. M. Norhomb, who had a slight indisposition (not the cholera, as the Courier said), is entirely recovered. BRUSSELS, AUG. 27.—General Merex, who is going to Berlin as Envoy Extraordinary, will have his audience of leave of the King to-day. A courier has just arrived with despatches from Baron de Loe, at Vienna, announcing that, on the 19th of Aug he hail had a formal audience of the Emperor of Austria, to whom he had delivered his credentials as Minister Ple nipotentiary to the Court of Vienna. After the audience, Baron de Loe, accompanied by Count Lataing, had the honour to present his respects to her Majesty the Empress, to the Archdukes, and to the Prince of Salerno. On the same day Prince de Loe had the honour to be presented to their Majesties the King and Queen of I lu ngary. The king, on the occasion of his marriage, had granted the 'emission or commutation of their penalties to 213 in dividuals. Among those who have received a free pardon is Cul. Borrmans, the only person condemned for political offences who was in prison ; the very small number of other prisoners of the same class, having fled from justice, cannot be the object of an act of clemeney, according to the principle generally received among the lawyers. Yesterday, on the arrival of despatches from London, Sir R. Adair and M. de Latour Maubourg met at the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, with whom they ha l a long c•mference. General Erman has returned from Antwerp. Colonel Paixbons has been to-day with some artillerymen to the south of Brasschaet to try some pieces of cannon, accord ing to the system invented by him.—Brussels Papers, Aug. 29. We now understand that the Marquis of PALNIELLA is not likely to leave London be fore to-morrow. We are able to state positively, in reference to the statement of a contemporary, that a rising had taken place at Algarve in favour of Dcn PEDRo, that no news of such an event has been received at the Portuguese Embassy. At the date of the last accounts (the 19th), information of an authentic character had been received by the Regency that every thing was prepared for a rising in Algarve, and also at Almeida, but that no explosions had yet taken place. Little doubt was entertained that the whole of the Algarves would in less than a fortnight declare for Don PEDRO. The Grand Jury of the Queen's County, Ireland, have lately addressed the Marquis of ANGLESEA on the satisfactory result of the re cent Special Commission, to which his Excel lency has been pleased to reply in that enigmati cal style which all great Statesmen adopt, when they feel themselves, to use the cant phrase on such occasions, " peculiarly situated." Com pelled from sheer necessity to say something, when inclination would strongly dispose him to say nothing, his Excellency evidently finds him self fast lodged between the two stiff, unyielding horns of a dilemma. He avoids Scylla, only to plunge headlong into Charybdis. For instance, in alluding to the undoubted right of petition, —which, of course, he is well aware it is worse than madness to gainsay—he makes this dis creet concession to popular feeling, " I cannot be understood to intimate the most remote in tention to question or interfere with the exercise of the right to petition for the amendment or alteration of any law which either does, or may be supposed to, operate as a grievance." This, so far as it goes, is rational and intelligible enough ; but then, as if he h a d come t oo home to the point, as if he had expressed himself too much like a man of common sense, and too little like a state politician, mark how his Excellency backs out of the difficulty ; with what studied art, with what happy legerdemain, he hastens to make that vague and obscure and perplexing, which was before but too intelligible ! ‘, But invaluable as this right is, it must be—as it may be—exercised without violating the laws by which the general peace and security are guaranteed." Po PE has somewhere said "your true no-meaning puzzles more than wit," and this absurd, though plausible generality, is a full exemplification of the axiom. Its meaning, if it have or be in tended to have any, is neither more nor less than this:—" Petition, gentlemen,' in Gov's name, petition where and when you please,but take this as a salutary hint—the very instant your peti tions become troublesome, the very instant your public meetings for arranging and deciding on them begin to tell with the people, that instant I insist on your leaving off, for it will then be come self-evident that you will be, one and all of you, violating the laws by which the general peace and security are:guaranteed.' So long as your petitions have not the slightest effect on the mass of the community, so long will I continue you in the exercise of that inestimable privilege of all free Britons ; but the very moment they do, I shall be under the disagreeable necessity of sending you and your privileges to the right about." It may possibly be urged in reply to this, that there can be no mistaking the direct import of the words, " violating the laws, general security," &c. But alas, who does not know that Government have always the ways and means at their command to prove the " violation of the laws" by those whose opposi tion to their measures promises to be in the slightest degree influential ? In the Ministerial vocabulary, to violate a law, means to differ with the Cabinet, and the violation is invariably in direct proportion to the difference. For in stance, a few days since a great public meeting was announced to be held in the South of Ireland for the purpose of petitioning on some point rela tive to home manufacture. Government, like a pointer with a fine scent, snuffed this meeting afar off ; and discovering, with true Ministerial sagacity, even before it was held, that it was what Lord LONDONDERRY would call an " embryo" violation of the law, crushed the chick in the egg-shell. In other words, the meeting was forbidden by the local military au thorities. What an edifying comment is this on his Excellency's express acknowledgment of the right of the people to petition ! What value it lends to his concession, what epigramatic point, what exquisite propriety ! The people may do any fning but that which is likely to turn to good account. They may say any thing, but that which is likely to inconvenience the delicate sen sibilities of Government. They may meet any where but where they are likely to be listened to. Now, when all these deductions are made from the popular right to petition, to what does the privilege amount ? A mere nothing ! And this nothing, it seems, Ireland is to receive with gratitude, as an earnest of Government's virtuous intentions towards her. The following are extracts from Brazil Papers received this morning:— Rio DE JANEIRO, JUNE 28.—The Regency, in the name of the Emperor Don Pedro 11., considering the ne• cessity of reforming the administration, of the naval arse nals of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, and also to determine the manner in which those of the other provinces are to be managed, the intendencies of which were abolished by the law of November 15, 1831, has directed the Minister of Marine to lay before the Chamber of Representatives a plan for that purpose. PERNAmnuco.—ln the Sitting of the Federal Society, on May 6, Sir Joao Barbuza Cordeiro submitted the fol lowing question:— " If, in consequence of the disturbances intbe capital, it should unfortunately happen that the legal Government should disappear, or that the Legislative Assembly should not meet, or that its powers should be restrained by the parties that have lately manifested themselves, what means of salvation ought this society to adopt that our liberty may not perish ?" The Committee appointed to report on the above must declare, in the first place, that it can by no means persuade itself that the hypothesis of the disappearance of the actual Regency of the Empire can be realised, in consequence of the disturbances that have taken place, or may take place, at Rio, considering the zeal which the Brazilians, who are real friends to the country, have shown in the defence of the Regency, and what has probably discouraged those turbulent spirits that, either through ambition orsome other ill. understood interest, have attacked a Government which the nation constituted through its representatives in the General Assembly, ac cording to article 123 of the constitution, on account of the minority of the Emperor Don Pedro H. But, if the party which evidently endeavours to plunge Brazil in ruin, should unhappily triumph in Rio, and the members of the Regency retire to some part of the Em pire where the disorganising faction does not prevail, or if they should be killed or kept in prison, or basely yield to the yoke of the factious, in the first place this province will refuse all obedience to the illegal Government, crimi nally established at Rio, and will obey only the present Regency in whatever part of Brazil it may temporarily establish the seat of government. In the other cases, the province will refuse all obedience to the illegal Government, and obey only the Government of the province itself, till the General Assembly shall meet in some place far from the influence of the illegal Go vernment. RIO DE JANEIRO, JUNE 30.-The Minister of War communicates a letter from the Secretary of the Govern ment of Ceara, dated April 25, inclosing a despatch from Major F. Havier Torres, dated head-quarters at Jeo, in April, in which he gives an account of a battle with the rebels, under Pinto Madeira, to the number of 3,000 men, who were defeated, with the loss of 100 killed, and 200 wounded, and some prisoners. BOARD OF HEALTH.—It appeasing that a con'agious disease prevails in Chili, chiefly at Valparaiso, which was introduced by an American ship from Canton, consisting in a violent inflammation of the throat, with scarlet spots on the body, the duration of the disorder, which is almost always fatal, being 30 hours, the Regency orders all ne cessary precautions to be taken respecting vessels coming from the ports of that country.—Diario do Governo, July 2. German Papers received this morning state that the cholera still continues its ravages in that country : VIENNA, Amin 17. —The cholera, which was so destructive last year, again carries off many victims, both here and in our neighbourhood ; it continues to rage in Bohemia and Moravia ; and in Austria appears in those places which escaped last year. The Aulic Counsellor Von Braulick died of the disorder last night. The at tacks are more numerous and fatal in the suburbs, which lie rather lower. Reports of intended reductions in our army are again in circulation.—Allgesneine Zeitung, Aug. 23. VIENNA, AUG. 17.—The Commission of the Austrian Littorale at Trieste, issued June 20, contains an invita tion to all persons in and out of the Austrian States, who have suffered loss by the depredations of Greek pirates, or vessels under Austrian colours, to send in a statement of their claims to indemnity for such losses, supported by the necessary documentary proof, to the said Commission, on or before the Ist of January, 1833 ; after such date no claims can be received.—Frankfort .Papers, Aug. 23. CASSEL.-The Cassel Journal, " The Friend of the Constitution" says, " The festival of Hambach is as signed by the Journals that defend the resolutions of the Diet, as partly and principally the occasion of them, and the attacks of the opposition Journals have been weakened by their not being able to deny the truth of that circum stance. But these resolutions were approved and signed by the King of England on the Bth, whereas the meet ing at Hambach did not take place till the 28th, that is three weeks later.—Aligerneine Zeitung, Aug. 24. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE O'CLOCK. A Brazil mail has arrived, which sailed on the 3d of July. The private letters state that all was quiet there. Exchange on London, 39 to 10 ; Stocks, 47. Jamaica Papers to the 18th of July have been received, they are very barren of intelligence. (From the Courant of the 17th July ) . . . We understand that circulars have been forwarded by his Honour the President to the several Custodoes and Magistr►tes, requesting them to forward to the King's house a full report of the trials of all slaves implicated in the late rebellion. The IVashington Globe states, by a notice of the Se cretary of the Treasury, that the Three per Cents. Stock of the United States is to be paid off, two-thirds on the Ist of October next, and the remaining third on the Ist of January next. Two similar ►,otices were issued by the Secretary at the beginning of the present month, one for the payment of the exchanged Five per Cents. of 20th of April, 1822, and the other for the payment on one half of the exchanged Four and a Half per Cents. of the 28th of May, 1824, both payable on the Ist of January next. After these payments are made the whole Funded Debt of the United States will amount to only 6,962,660 dollars 27 cents. THE FUNDS. Up to the present time we have no farther accounts from the theatre of war in Portugal, but as the wind proves fair we may expect daily arrivals from that quarter, which are eagerly sought for. The Funds are steady at present, and opened at the same price they left off yesterday, 84 to 1, 1 - for the Account, and 831 I T for Money, with little or nothing doing. This being pay day for the settling of the Account, the Brokers are busy in paying and receiving their differences. The Foreign Market is also in a state of stagnation. HALF-PAST ONE. By the French mail this morning we have received the following : Accounts from Brussels state that General Mereaux will immediately depart for Berlin, as Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Belgium. Accounts from Tripoli, of the 17th of July state, that the English Consul has declared war to the Pacha, who for several years has not fulfilled his engagements with the English Government, and only , 18 hours have been given to him to pay the debt of 200,000 pistoles. The Consul, his family, and those under his protection, to the number of 1,500, were making preparations to embark, should the war take place. A French Paper states, that letters from Spain mention that a foreign regiment, in the Spanish service, has re ceived secret orders to form themselves into guerillas, and enter Portugal. New Orleans papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, to July 21, which state that the schooner America had arrived there from Matamaras, with 240,000 dollars on board. She left Rio Grande on the Bth inst., and reports that the armed fleet of Santa Anna were at anchor off Brassos de Santiago. When she left the troops had landed and taken posses sion of the towns of Brassos and Matamaras without any resistance. Tranquillity prevailed, all being in favour of Santa Anna. Consols are at present 84i for the Account, and 83Z for Money, with little doing, except in paying and re ceiving the accounts. .• In the Foreign Market Portuguese Stock continues the same as yesterday. Brazil Stock has improved 1 per Cent. Portuguese Scrip 11 to 4 discount. THREE 6" CL 0 CK. Console 84A- for Account. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consols - Danish 7O Dittofor Account 841,' :I, Greek, 1825 25 Brazilian Bonds 49i Mexican, 1825 22i Buenos Ayres... Peruvian ... ..... Chilian Ditto.... Russian lOl Columbian 1824 Spanish We endeavoured, about eight or ten days ago, to draw attention to the commercial tyranny exer cised by Prussia over the smaller States of Germany, through the medium of what she calls commercial treaties, and we promised some further remarks on the subject, but press of other matter compelled us to discontinue the dis cussion. It has, however, lost none of its importance, and appea rs even to ga i n i n i nterest b y i ts comp li ca ti on with the political qnestions involved in the late decrees of the Diet, to which the English public showed them. selves so much alive. We refer our readers to an excel lent letter on this subject, confirmatory of our reasonings, from a Hamburg correspondent, who informs us that our German allies, after endeavouring, without succes s, to exclud e E ng li sh merchandize from that free an d i nde. pendent republic, have prohibited the publication of an English J ournal. Our readers must h ave seen in the quotation of news from the north of Germany the name of the Hamburg Reporter—a paper which, so far as we have e ver o b served, never meddled w i t h G erman parties or politi cs . T his paper, from be i ng wr i tten in a fore ign language, and from being devoted rather to intelligence on trade than to political discussion, could not be alleged as dangerous to German tranquility. Its suppression was therefore demanded from mere tyrannical wantonness by the chief despot of the confederation, and agreed to from mere timidity on th e p a rt of the Hamburg autho rities. This shows the working of the system, and points out the manner in which the late infamous de crees will operate against all freedom political or coin- Times, GERMANIC AFFAIRS.-(THIS DAY.) A highly respectable but not numerous meeting of the friends of liberty in Germany, took place to-day at the Crown and Anchor.—Sir JOHN MILLEY Doyle, K.C.8., M.P., in the chair. Among the gentlemen present we no ticed Dr. Elmore, Dr. Schutz, Mr. Laurie Murray, and Dr. Wade, of Warwick, a member of the Established Church. The CHAIRMAN, on taking the chair, addressed the meeting as follows : Gentlemen,—However my sentiments may be in unison with the general feeling of the country upon this subject, and highly as I appreciate the opinions of the respectable Deputation who have solicited me to take the Chair upon this occasion, yet, conscious of my own inability to do justice to the subject, I should most respectfully have declined the honour, had the eloquent and ta. lented Member (Mr. Bulwer) who brought forward the subject in Parliament, or any of our collegue, who supported him, been within reach ; and I now only consent to sit here to afford the opportunity to those gentle men who may wish to express their sympathy with the suffering people of Germany. Trusting to the good sense of the meeting, that the discussion may be conducted with the moderation, decorum, and impartiality which is always sure to forward and benefit a just and sacred cause. Mr. T. LAURIE MURRAY then stated the present meet ing had been called in consequence of resolutions passed at an Anglo_Germanic meeting, and read the following letter and address to the Secretary of the meeting " Tydvil Political Union. " Addressed to Mr. Campbell, the Chairman of the Ger manic Association, London. " The Members of the Merthyr-Tydvil Political Union most respectfully lay before you an address to the people of Germany, unanimously adopted at a general meeting ot the members of the Union, held in the Bush Inn, on Sa turday the 18th inst., the Rev. David John in the chair. At the meeting, the most unequivocal demonstrations were evinced of its abhorrence of the conduct of the Ger man despots, whose objects it believes to be the abjec slavery, not only of Germany, but of the whole of Eu rope. The members respectfully request that you will present the following address to the association : "As men forming a part of the social system of th, universe, we, the Members of the Political Union of Merthyr-Tydvil, regard with deep indignation the at tempts now made by the German Sovereigns against the liberties of the German people. " We firmly believe that if the infamous protocols o' Frankfort be carried into effect, it will point the death blow to German liberty. Already the bristling bayonet i• raised, and the flashing sword is drawn to execute th, tyrannical decree. We believe this decree to be the corn mencement of a general war throughout Europe against the principles of liberty. Emboldened by their success, in having crushed unfortunate Poland, the Continental despots have attacked liberty in Germany. " Germans, raise your united voices against them. and strike for freedom ere it be too late. Put forth you , moral power, and a bloodless victory wiil be yours. If your tyrant resists, appeal to your mighty strength ; fight, con quer, and be free. "To us, the people of England, the conduct of ow King, in affixing his seal of approbation to this odious de cree, is a matter of surprise and indignation. When th. Reform Bill of England became law, we believed we had a patriotic King, marching onward with the spirit of thi age, and, by his sanction of that great measure, raising a bar against tyranny at home and abroad. " People of Germany, we have been deceived. We have experienced the duplicity of Kings, and have been taught that men can be free by their own united efforts. " Germans unite—the world's eye is upon you. Whet.. ever there are hearts that love liberty, or souls that breath, the air of freedom, there will he prayers raised for you? success; for the progress of civilization, and the happiness of mankind, are dependant, to a degree inconceivable, on your successful resistance. " People of Germany, once more unite—and may God defend the right !" Mr. MURRAY, in reading this Address, was repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic cheers of the multitude. Dr. ELMORE rose to propose the following resolution : " That this meeting views with sorrow and indignatior, the successful attempts on the part of the Continenta; despots to extinguish, by the late Frankfort Edicts, the organ of liberty and independence in the free Press of Ger. many ; and in order to keep alive the spirit of freedom it, Germany, this meeting strenuously pledges itself to aid the Anglo- Germanic Association to establish an Anglo-Ger manic newspaper in London, on the principles of advocat. ing the restoration of the violated treaties and outraged liberties of Europe." He was quite sure that very few worth were neces sary to obtain the concurrence of the meeting in thr opinions expressed in that resolution. And be knew that by pursuing the course now open before them. they would keep alive the flame of liberty, which was dis• seminating itself over all Europe. The conduct of the foreign despots i❑ regard to Germany was precisely similar to the course adopted by Russia, in respect to Poland.-- The autocrat pursued a course of irritation towards Po land, that it was impossib:e at last to submit to. And the same course of irritation was now being adopted towards Germany. The fatal results in Poland were nos; before the world, and if the foreign despots be successful, the same results would follow in Germany. It was for the purpose of counteracting their efforts that this Anglo-Germanic Association had been formed. For it had been proved, as was shown in the case of the Polish Association, that such institutions were ut great utility in forming a centre from which to publish the proceedings in Germany. In that country there was now no free Press—the last, the German Re porter, having been suppressed, although it never inter fered with politics. That fact must convince the world of the utter hopelessness of the prospect of any good from the Holy Alliance. But they would be unable in Ger many, that great seat of learning, to stop the march o; mind. It is to Germany that they all looked for tlr keeping together the classical literature of the age.— (Cheers.) But the Holy Alliance were determined to attemp , to extinguish liberty altogether. And if they succeeded, if the machinations of those kingly despots were attended with success, the fate of Poland in tst certainly awaited Germany. But a spirit of re-action would arise in Get many, that would spread the flame throughout Europe. It appeared that the Allied Sovereigns wished to goad, first one State and then another, so as eventually to dissever and destroy. But it was by combination that such at tempts must be suppressed. There were, however, great difficulties in the way. He entreated the Germans te, show, that they would not be driven to outrage and to premature rebellion, and if they took the same course which the British people had token on a late occasion—if they would adopt not anarchy or rebellion, but a firm and united detertnination to resist the maclli nations of those bloody-minded despots, success would attend them.—(Cheers.) Brute force was the last and the worst to appeal to ; but if they vigorously and ii, unison pursued by moral strength the object they had it, view they would be sure to succeed in regaining their liberties.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. WADE seeonded the resolution. H, said men must be prepared to show to tyrants that the) would not permit the foot of a tyrant to be on their neck and crush them, and that they would resist with their lives all such attempts. Allusion had been made to the expression of sympathy, on behalf of the Germans, at Merthyr Tydvil, and be could answer for similar expressions it, Birmingham and Warwick. When he beard Mr. Attwood allude at a public meeting to the down fall of those tyrants who tyrannized over Germany, there was one great acclamation from the assembled thousands.—(Cheers.) Passive obedience and non-resis tance in England bad long since gone to the tomb of al the Capulets; and he hoped that it would be the same in Germany very shortly. The way had been pointed ou, to the people of Germany by the people of England fin the defence of their liberties, but he would go furthet and snake a bold front to the despots and say that England would, if necessary, go much further. He believed it was in the time 01 Charles when the petty Princes of Germany called on England to assist them against their greater tyrants ; and now when those Princes had themselves be come tyrants, England was bound to assist them. Regarding the connection between England and Ha nover, rather than see this county disgraced b) that connection, he would say, let Hanover go t the wind. Hanover and England were not inseparah:e like the Siamese twins, and England would stand noble, by herself than with such a monstrous connection. A celebrated writer (Bracton) had said, " While Princes do justice, they are vicars of the Eternal King ; but when they do injustice, they are vicars of the Devil." He was afraid Princes of late had acted too touch like the latter, and, therefore, should not be too much trusted— hut rather that the people should oppose moral force, and that physical force that was in the shape of bayonets and cannon.—(Cheers.) Let them use moral force first, and when that failed, as much physical fore, as was necessary.—(Cheers ) When filen) , had been nearly drawn from the world by the Roman army, where did she take her stand ? Beyond the Rhine, where the Germans fostered and fed her generously and fondly fur a period of 500 years. Would it therefore be nigh: now to suffer the Germane, whose forefathers did eo much for liberty, to lose the ':reeduto tti I liven fostete I so I mg in their own country. --( Che rs.) The nieetiug was proceeding when we went to Press. The following is the other resolution intended to be proposed : " That in order to enable the Anglo-Germa:ric Assoc's rion to carry the foregoing resolutions into full effect, this meeting cordially recommend that a subscription be now entered int and those gentlemen now present, who are desirous of supporting this laudable undertaking, are to quested to give their contributions to J. Laurie Murray, Esq , the treasurer to that association." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Alla. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Ed ward, Haviside, from Sincapore, sailed from the Mauritius the 15th of May ; also arrived the Newton, from New foundland. PoßTsmourtr, Aus. 29.—Wind W.N.W.—Put back the Upton Castle, Duggan, for Bombay. Arrived his Majesty's ship Dryad, from Cork. FALMOUTH, Alta. 28.—Wind W.S.W. to N.N. W. Sailed the Hermes stem packet, for Lisbon. RAMSOATE, Aua. 29.—Arrived the Duchess of Glouces ter, Newman, from Riga. DOVER, Aua. 29.—Arrived off port the Rosells, E.l - from Baltimore. Cowes, Auc. 29.—Arrived the Emulous, Peet, from New Orleans. SHARPNESS, Auc. 25.--Arrived the Redley, Redley, from Archangel. Auc. 28.—Arrived the John, Daice, from Valparaiso, and the John Lres, Lees, from St. Peters burgh. GREENOCK, Auc. 27.—Arrived the Louisa, M'Kellar, from Trinidad ; Mary and Scott, Scotland, from Quebec ; Williamina, Spence, from Archangel, and the Mary An derson, Micklejohn, from Riga. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) These Sessions commenced this morning before F. CONST, Esq., Chairman, and a Bench of Alagistratts. Thomas Field and Rebecca Klffen were indicted for assaulting 'William Davis. The prosecutor stated that he was a jeweller and opti ci ai in Crown-street, Soho, and that Mrs. Killen, wl a was an eccentric old lady, in the enjoyment of an annuity of 750/. a year, had occupied lodgings in his home at 4s. a week, for about two months. Notwithstanding the ex tent of her property, she owed him nearly 101. for rent and above 301. for money lent her. Early in May they disagreed, and he gave her notice to quit; and on the 10th May, two days after she left she came to his house with six other persons, among whom was the other defendant ; and upon his refusal to give up some goods he he!d as se curity for the rent, they beat him, knocked him down, and kicked him while on the ground, the old woman be ing particularly active in striking him, and exclaiming, " Kill him, the villain." Two witnesses deposed, that they were attracted to the prosecutor's house by his cries, and they saw him on the ground, and the defendants and the others round him. For the defence several persons were called, who all swore that no assault whatever was committed, and that prosecutor was never on the ground at all. The defendant Field's father and mother swore, that in a conversation with Davis he said Field had never struck him. The Jury acquitted the defendants. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-AuG. 29. MR. 3IABERLKY's BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of creditors took pldce to-day to audit ac. counts and for the further proof of debts. Mr. Poor.E appeared as solicitor for a Mr. Knight, to prove a claim, amounting to 6,9001., being one-fiqh part of the amount of the sum of 34,5001., which, it was alleged, was the amount of commission received on ac. count of the contract entered into by Mr. Maberley for raising the Terceira Regency Loan. The COMMISSIONER inquired how this claim aros e ? _ _ Mr. Poorx said Mr. Maberley had the contract for a Portuguese Regency Loan ; that bonds had issued f 105,6001., and his client, being engaged in the transac tions, became entitled to one•fifth of the commission arising by the sale of these bonds. He produced the certificate of the broker who bad negotiated these bonds, and in this manner was to send the produce in cash into the hands of Mr. Maberley. Mr. Knight, by an award, was clearly entitled to his one•fifth sale of the commission arising on the transactions, which amounted to 34,5001. The COMMISSIONER postponed the consideration of this important claim, that Mr. Easthope, the banker, might attend, and books be produced. The OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE then stated, that he expecbal to have 10,0001. assets in hand in a few days. The CommisszoNEß. said that he should declare a divi dend as soon as there was enough to divide one shilling in the pound. The SOLICITOR to the creditors said that be should, at the proper time, protest against the declaration of a divi dend, as there were outstanding engagements which ought first to be paid. The estate was paying interest at five per cent. Several debts were proved. The claims against the bankrupt's estate were as follows:-136,0001. unsecured; 74,000/. secured ; and 20,0001. disputed ; in all 230,000!. At present the estimate is that not more than three shil lings in the pound will be paid, unless some of the bank rupt's afftirs should prove more favourable than antici pated.—The meeting then adjourned. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Aug. 24, 1832, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. O. Oats .Os. lld.l sd. flarley—.33s. Id Rye lOd Pease-- 355. Id. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE sill' WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat—...... 635. 9.d.1 Oats 21s. 365. 6d. Id.l Rye 365. ii 375. Pd, DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN Wheat—....... 9.35. Rd. j 15;. 3d.1 Beans--. 15s, rut. Barley-12s. 4d.l Rye 15s. (t. Pease...—. 14s. Od, riA 1 Al A KKETS.—(At per Load (A 34i Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£2 15 to £3 0 New Meadow flay " 15 3 15 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3.15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4' 5 Clover Hay 4 0 6 0 Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 18 I Wheat Straw ... 2 0 2 2 Supply limited, trade very dull, and prices as last quoted. SAI ITH Ft ELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 If., Fine Upland Meadow and rtye-grass Hay ...... Clover Hay (extra 6ne)....f6 0 ..Generally /.it Straw ... LI 16 to £1 IS I Wheat Straw 2 0 2 Supply limited, trade very dull, and prices barely stationary; CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WILITEIIALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report, 2599—New Cases,BBo—Dcaths,2s7 Recovered, 468—Remaining, 2954. Total Cases since the com mencement, 43,102—Deaths, 15,957. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. DREADFUL RAVAGES of the CHOLERA at BILSTON. BILSTON, Atra. 28.—That dreadful pestilence, the Asiatic cholera, made its appearance here on the 4th of this month, and, to yesterday evening, it has tat tied off 500 of the population out of 15,000, Out of seven resident surgeons two are dead of the disease; one of the others has left the place ill of it, titer his sister had fallen a victim to it. We have an pital and dispensary, and a house of recovery; and Dr. %calm is here and in the neighbourhood daily. Many of the respectable inhabitants have temporarily left the place. lam much afraid that some of the manufactories will be closed through fear, as one of our principal mann, facturers is ill of the disease. Should this be the case, 4 4 will add to the distress already so great, and tend, f ro n t the the disease. of n the working in of our population, to increase We had 49 burials on Wednesday, and from 30 to 4() on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last, on each of those days. Notwithstanding all the coffin-makers are employed, they have found it impossible to supply a . sufficfent com a: have been n anda e pp e li application from thence. n has beeeneYou can madeto Birmingham,oform rd idea some a of the tales of woe and sorrow we constantly hear. It is not uncommon to hear a woman say "My mother and sister are both dead," or "My husband and our apprentice aregone." Many houses have lost four persons each, and the family of Onions have lost seven persons. A parr man and woman (John Corbett and wife) are dead, and have left four small children : indeed, in some cases whole families have been swept away. Messrs. Jones, Son, and Foster, bankers here, and Mr. Richard Thomson, of Stuffurd-street, the ceasurer, have undertaken to receive subscriptions. MeesN. Spootn.r and Attwooda are the town agents o! Messrs. June., S.ii, and Foster, they would doubtless receive for it account soy subscriptions which your appeal may call (nth.