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THE LONDON JOURNALS. VITHAVTS FROM THE, DAILY MORNING PAPERS, June 25, 1822. • [Tut T1MV. 4 .1 We have received the Conservateur impartial of the 4th instant, containing a Report on the - nuances of the Russian Empire, delivered by M. Gouriff, Minister for that department, to the Council of" Superintendence over the Affairs of Public Credit," on the 30th ult. Want of room restricts us to a brief extract or two from the contynts of this official paper. The debts of Russia, which the operation of the Sinking Fund embraces, are divisible into three heads :- 1. Those contracted before the institution of the S'inking . Fund. 2. Those which are the result of loans contracted for the purpose of reducing the amount of paper money. 3. Those which were incurred with a view to provide for the neces sities of sundry branches of the Administration. The total- debt, under the first of these divisions, not including that on account of Holland, amounted, before the year 1817, to 11,646,418 roub. metalliq., 204,068,739 assig. The Dutch debt was 50,600,000- florins ; and on the Ist of January, 1822,- the reductions which had taken place in this mass of debt, by means of the Sink ing Fund, amounted to about 62,000,000 roubles, assig.; and in ten years a certain portion of the above debt, viz. that which is made payable at stated periods, will have been entirely paid off— an event which must add to the sinking fund 12,000,000 of roubles, while that part of the fund which is made applicable to the redemption of the perpetual rentes will, with the aid of the sums annually brought in, have redeemed the whole of thaw rentes in 20 years; the sinking fund is 2' per cent. on the capital of the debt.— The second general class of debts, viz. those growing out of loans for the reduction of the paper money, were contracted in 1817 and 1818, in assignats, at 6 per cent. and in 1820, in specie roubles, at 5 per cent. per annum. The sum total of these debts, on the Ist of January, 1822, =minted to 334,8-10 roubles metallic, and 109,720,471 assigs. Of this, the portion which is redeemable will be paid off likewise in twenty years, leaving only between 11 and 12 millions of perpetual debt, which belongs to some of the public establishments. The specie loan, nego ciated by Messrs. Baring and Hope, amounted to 40 millions ; but of this, only between 26 and 27 millions were carried to account of the 30 millions assigned to the diminution of the paper money. Of the above loan there has been al ready redeemed 701,700 roubles ; and the Government has, or is in the act of destroying assignats, with the proceeds of it, to the amount of nearly 47 millions of roubles, which will make altogether, of paper extinguished, upwards of 256 millions of roubles.--The 3d class of debts, those contracted to provide for certain branches of the Administration, have amounted, during the four years specified, to 1,305,000 metallic roubles, and nearly 18 ; 000,000 in assignats ; but the Go vernment was under the necessity of diverting 13 out of the- 40 Millions of the Hope and Baring loan, from -its natural destination of redeeming paper, to supply some pressing wants of the ser vice, which increases the specie debt of the pub lic Administration by the like sum.—The result is, that the whole debt of Russia, in all its brancli..s, amounted on the Ist of January, 1822, to—Holland, 48,600,000 florins ; Home debt, above 53 millions specie roubles ; Assignats, _above 296 millions assignats. The annual sink ing fund for the redemption of which amounts to above 1,000,000 roubles specie, and above 5,000,000 assignats ; or bears a proportion to the debt of something more than 1 to 50. The English sinking fund, taken at 3 millions (and it has not yet been so much since the peaced is to the debt as 1 to 270. [MORNING HERALD.] Saturday's Paris Papers came last night by express. An article, dated Petersburgh, states, that the Russian Imperial Guard has received orders to return to the capital—a circumstance almost' decisive of peace. ft is, however, still asserted, that the Asiatic Turks only had eva cuated the Principalities, and that the new plan of administration by a Turkish Governor, assist ed and controlled by a Council of natives of the two Provinces, met with some obstacles, but there is still nothing to lessen the confident pro bability of peace. It appears that iu Russia the Ladies share independently the honours of chi valry with the Empress-Mother, Grand Mistress of the Order of St. Catherine, who has conferred by an autograph letter, upon Madame de Tatis cheff, the wife of the Privy Councillor of that name the small Cross of the Ladies of the Order of St. Catherine the Martyr, in considera tion of the services of her husband. There are no accounts of a more recent date than our last from Spain. But the Moniteur, in a demi-official ar ticle, reprimands the blood-thirstiness and bigotry of the Ultra Journals, which, by perfidious false hoods, have laboured to provoke a war between the two nations. 44 France," says the Monileur, " has no ill will to the independence of other nations, and no fears for its own." This seems quite decisive of the intentions of the French Government, whatever may be the particular dis positions of some Members of the Ministry, and confirms the declaration of the King at the open ing of the Session, that the sole object of the Cor don Sanitaire was the prevention of any danger to the public health during the heat of the sum mer months. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Bill entitled the Spoiled Stamp Amend ment Bill, now reproduced in the House of Com mons, requires to be watched with more than or dinary vigilance. A letter to the Editor exposes its pressure upon the industrious members of the lower classes, of whom benefit societies are com posed, a system entitled to every possible en couragement and indulgence. This, however, is only a minor objection. Its pressure upon the landed interest, already labouring under such distress, is such as must make every country gentleman tremble for the consequences. It is well known, that-tenantcy at will is the common tenure in England, and that the specification of the terms, which is generally a printed form, requires no stamp, but in the event of its being found necessary to produce it in legal process. — These instances rarely occur; but by the pro posed Bill all such agreements are null and void without a stamp, the consequence of which will be a tax upon landed property so let to the amount of upwards of 10 per cent. It would thus appear that under cover of a Bill, the title of which imports relief, new taxes are to be im posed of the most oppressive and objectionable character. Tax Bills brought in at the close of the Session should be closely watched. The interests of landholders are affected in a very serious degree by the proposed measure. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] With the immense funds at the disposal of Government, derived not merely from this enor mously Taxed Country, but from our numerous Colonies in every quarter of the Globe, it is hardly possible that its influence should not, under any circumstances, be overwhelming. Our laws of succession, however, render that influ ence still greater than it would otherwise be. In most other' countries property is equally distri buted among children, whereby, if there are few overgrown fortunes, there are as few persons in the rank of Gentlemen without some property. But, by our law, the eldest son takes all, and the younger children get nothing. The consequence is, that, in most cases, the younger children must either be provided for by Government, or must starve. We have, therefore, at all times, an army of hungry expectants, to provide for whom must be the first business of their relatives. — The provision to be obtained h is, of course, the grand consideration ; the particular Administra tion to be supported a matter of very inferior moment, as all Administrations have the same amount of good things at their disposal. The working of the system was admirably described last night by Mr. Brougham, to our Report of whose speech we must refer our readers.—" There was one point," observed the lion. and Learned Gentleman, " on which all persons, who had ob served the working of the system with the least possible attention, must be prepared to agree ; namely, that whoever happened to be the Minis ter of the Crown, as the question respected the person, and whatever might be the measure pro posed, as the question respected the thing, the House of Commons were always found ready to support that individual, because he was Minister, and to approve of that measure, because it ema nated from hint." [NEW TIMES. I We have been really astonished that men pos sessing the common use of reason should venture, even for the sake of empty declamation, to talk of the increasing power of the Crown ! In a country where an advocate could publicly call his Sovereign Nero—where that Sovereign could not be released from a wife who was proved to have slept for five weeks alone in a tent with a common footman—where the mob and the factious newspapers could bully the Legis lature into an act of the grossest injustice to wards the King—we are told forsooth of the power of the Crown ! The Crown, it is argued, must have a vast influence, because it directs the expenditure of large sums of money. But with all this expenditure, what single individual can it possibly engage to support it in an act deviating in the slightest degree from the strict line of the law ? Is there not a power in this country be fore which every other power crouches—the power of the Press ? If we talk of increasing power let us look there. Let us consider how many more Newspapers are printed now than there were twenty years ago ; how much more daring is their language ; and how large a pro portion of them are systematically devoted to bringing the Kingly Government into hatred and contempt by incessant calumny and falsehood. [MORNING POST.] •• Mr. Brougham's Motion on the influence of the Crown came last night before the House of Com mons. We, in common it may be presumed with the Public at large, conceived that this dis cussion would have a direct relevancy to the object which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman professed to hold i❑ view. He did not, how ever, proceed very far in his voluminous speech before it became quite perceptible, that while the influence of the Crown was thrown up by way of ambuscade, the real purport of the motion, as in the end avowed, was to surprize Parliament into a second consideration of Re form, which, for the present Session at least, every one believed was already dismissed. It therefore, perhaps, behoved the Honourable and Learned Member to give the subject some adventitious attraction ; and so far as a cunning contrivance of plot could effect this purpose, it was on this occasion accomplished. It would be vain to attempt to follow him here through all the mazes of his course, and the more so as our readers will find in the powerful reply of the Marquis of Londonderry a full and satisfac tory-exposure of its errors. But before we touch upon this point, it is necessary we should ob serve generally, that the greater part of the de• tails in the early part of Mr. Brougham's speech could have no bearing on the constitu tion of the House of Commons, either in the election of its Members in the first instance, or afterwards in controlling their votes. We are yet to learn how Excise and Custom Officers, who are deprived of their elective franchise, can corrupt Parliament ; and still more, how every tradesman who may possibly subject him self to an Exchequer prosecution, compels some Member constantly to vote against his conscience. At the same time it is but justice to say, that Mr. Brougham kept no terms with any party whatever. Although he occupies a leading seat on the Opposition Bench, his argument last night either made common havoc of Whigs and Tories, or it meant nothing. As the Marquis of Londonderry observed, 'it went to calumniate Parliament in the gross, and in our opinion very pointedly to shew that the Whigs who supported Mr. Fox's Administration in 1806 were the worst of all the bad men who have been in the House of Commons for thirty years past. To the Most Noble FIRST LORD OF MY LORD—The Public Journals of Tuesday last represent your Lordship to have said, amongst other things, in the House of Lords on bringing up the Bills for repealing our venerable Navigation Laws and other Commercial Bills, that " the result of the whole of the arrangements was that the principle of the Navigation Laws had been adhered to as closely as possible, keeping always in view the great object of rendering this country the entrepot of the world and. extending our own export trade." Now I first wish to be informed of what injury our venerable Navigation Laws have been productive to England, beyond that of giving her the first navy in the world, and making her mistress of the seas, to require in any shape their alteration without due protection being given to our shipping interest in some other way ? In the next place I contend, in opposition to your Lordship's assertion, that your new laws will very mate rially tend to change the effects of our present Navigation Laws, and in doing this will deprive of employment no less than 50,000 tons of British shipping, with a proportionate number of seamen, shipwrights, and - tradesmen, &c. &c., that they will increase by pauperism and criminal justice the already enor mous charge oh the landed interest, and lessen the revenue in the like ratio. And as to your new laws making this country an entrepot for the merchandize of the world, they will have a contrary tendency by making foreign ports depots for articles of British consumption. With respect to what your Lordship says of extending our , . , export trade, even aumitting for tne sake of argument that your Lordship's measures should have this result, still such extension of our exports is not always a proof of national prosperity, as we may export all our wealth without receiving due returns. Such indeed would appear to be the nature of our export trade already, for the official returns which have been presented to Parliament shew that we exported 55 millions worth of produce in the course of last year, while our imports only amounted to about 35 millions, and perhaps besides a few millions worth of bullion. During the period alluded to therefore, our export trade (the flour:oiling condition of which Ministers have made a matter of public congratulation) instead of being beneficial to the country, must have tended materially to increase our national distress. Commerce in fact conducted on such a prin ciple as this is evidently a dead loss to the amount of the dif ference between our exports and imports, and it would be just the same thing to the nation if we were to cast 20 millions worth of our manufacture into the seas, as to export 55 millions and only to receive 35 millions worth of produce in return, even though we should receive some few millions of unwanted bullion in addition. In further corroboration of the correctness of this view of the subject, in former years when our industry was better protected, and our imports exceeded our exports, our people and shipping were seldom deficient in profitable employment, nor were our pauperism, whiteboyism, beggary, and starvation, one-tenth as great as at present. Your Lordship in another part of your speech is reported to have said " With respect to exportation it might be truly said to have no limits except the means of payment possessed by foreigners." Now I not only contend without fear of contra diction that our exports have limits, and that our ability to consume the return payments gives these limits, but that the profitable employment of our people constitutes that ability, and that which foreigners can pay for is but a secondary con sideration. In proof of which, with few exceptions, our manu facturers are selling for less money in most parts f the world than their prime cost and charges; while foreign products (the return payment of our exports) are selling cheaper in England than at the place of their production. It follows therefore that unless more profitable employment be given to our people of we shall diminish our consumption, and with it our exports in proportion as our people are deprived of such profit able employment, by substituting the use of foreign in lieu of their own industry. indeed your Lordship's speech, as renorted in the papers, is full of contradictions in principle, and...the measures you pro pose will produce results in direct opposition to those they are intended toproduce ; but should the public prints have mis-stated. your Lordship's speech, that part of the East India Charter which goes to protect foreign commerce from British competi tion, and limits the size of British ships, while the shipping of foreign nations of all sizes is allowed to be free, the Ameri can treaties which give our carrying trade, fisheries, and terri tory to that nation, the alteration of the Timber Duties, which transferred the wealth of our shipping interest and colonies to foreigners, as well as many other commercial measures of your Lordship and colleagues, tend at least to prove that the public journals are correct in stating the principle, if not the words, of your Lordship's speech. I rejoice to see your Lordship's opi nions of Commerce on record, at they may not only serve as a future reference, but as a comparison between the effects of those measures which you advocate and those which you oppose. I further contend, that it was the protecting laws given to our industry by our forefathers, our valuable colonies, that employed our excess of population, and consumed our super abundant native industry, added to good government, . and not foreign trade, that elevated this country to its present pre-emi nent rank ; for our foreign trade, on the average of years, has never exceeded 3 per cent. of our aggregate industry ; and small as that trifle is, comparatively speaking, it would. have been more beneficial to the state had one half of it been trans ferred to our colonies. I airs also ready to prove, by facts and self-evident truths, that your well-meant general commercial' measures have a ten dency to ruin our shipping and landed interest, to weaken our naval defence, and ultimately to dry up the resources of our revenue, as well as of British industry generally. Nor should your Lordship and Colleagues have plumed your selves on an increasing revenue, until it was proved to be paid from income, and not from the pecede's capital, nor until you had accounted for that deficiency which ought to arise from an increase of one-sixth of our population since 1815. If the Governments of this world were in a natural state, Commerce, being the mere exchange of the superabundance of countries, would require no human laws to force it into action ; and even in the unnatural state in which the governments of the world are now placed, nothing more is requisite than that the industry of the world should be protected from foreign compe tition, according to its value to the state to which it severally belongs, and subject thereto, to let commerce have the freedom of air; but if one did not know to the contrary, on reading your Lordship's and Colleagues' speeches and commercial acts, he would think you were a set of pedlars, and not even general pedlars, but pedlars in cotton goods only, for there is hardly a measure among all your commercial acts, but what has a ten dency to sacrifice every other British interest to this exotic branch of industry, and to thrust it on foreigners, right or wrong, whether they want it or not, although this interest does not employ more than about two per cent. of our population, and gives employment to two foreigners where it employs one Englishman._ But I am happy to see that enlightened foreigners begin to know that the profitable employment of their people consti tutes the wealth of their states, and in consequence throw back on us with disdain our forced packs of manufactures. This will not only ultimately increase their own wealth, prove the greatness of theirs, and the littleness of the minds of our own statesmen, make them against their inclination avail them selves of the mighty resources of our own unrivalled empire, and thereby employ our own people, as far as we are able, to do our own work, but to crown the whole, you, unasked for by their example, throw our carrying trade intoahe laps of fo reigners, to soothe them for refusing your packs of cotton goods. It is with pain, my Lord, I say it, still, in judging of the future by the past, I fear nothing will induce your Lordship and colleagues to ascertain and apply the mighty resources of the British Empire, to 'the giving our own people profitable employment, but that of depriving you of the means of doing otherwise; this should be borne in mind, when the supplies 9f next year are granted, as this will tend to break up our worse than useless West India establishments and trade,and reduce our Army one half, the consequence of which will be that you will not be able to govern the people without acquiring . a knowledge of and applying the resources of the British Empire to the giv- ' ing them their legitimate natural profitable employment, which is without receiving an equivalent now given to foreigners; and although I often differ m opinion with Mr. Hume, still I think his sound legitimate speech of Wednesday night on the Irish Tithe question, should be recorded in letters of gold, and his fame, by the Irish People, transmitted to posterity. I will leave your Lordship and colleagues to guess at what spy opi nions are of those who opposed his motion, and which would, if it had been adopted, have proved so beneficial to both the Irish People and the Clergy. In reply to Mr. Robinson's observations in the House of Commons last night, on the Dutch Butter Duty question, wherein he said (as stated in the public prints,) " that Butter was the only article in which the Dutch could pay for our ma nufactures," I ask that Right Honourable Gentleman whe ther, if the Irish or English dairy-men had supplied us with an equal quantity of butter, would they not have taken in pay ment an equal quantity of British industry, with tithe taxes and poor-rates added thereto, and would they not, as a further ad dition, have defended our country, in lieu of offending it (as the Foreigner will do when he has an opportunity) lessen pau perism, whiteboyism, and, through consumption, have increas ed our revenue ? and I also a sk th at Right Hon. Gentleman if protecting g e ot r e c c a t t i ngr than he demand,diautic(sarenotpa and w h e n the foreigner when the supply paid by the consumer, if the EARL of LIVERPOOL , HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY. they are not paid in lieu of and not in addition to other taxa holt? It was, I presume, in ignorance . of these funda mental principles and practice, that the President of the Board of Trade opposed Sir N. Colthurst's Motion for higher pro tecting duties on Foreign Butter. In answer to Mr. Ricardo's observation, that Adam Smith always recommended the consideration of the consumer, I ask that Hon. Gentleman what other means has the consumer of obtaining the payments of his supply, but what was first re ceived from the producer ? if he doubts this doctrine, let him ascertain if the producer or consumer first existed. I there fore contend that by your taking care of our Native and Colo nial Producers of the staff of life, you at the same time take care of the consumer and bring him to that point which Adam Smith recommended • (another way of arriving at this point is by selling him the cheapest article when the difference is calculated between cost and cheapness); although that Author (like his Disciples) was a mere theorist, nor are one-tenth of his positions tenable in practice ; and 1 further contend, that to destroy the producer would be ultimate destruction to the con almer, while the producer of the staff of life, unconnected with others, can support himself. The only correct mode of taking care of the consumer is to put more money into his pocket than is necessary to pay for his subsistence, and this our Native and Colonial producers of the staff of life must do, if done at all, and this he will do if duly protected. It is a pity we have not sound Doctors in lieu of Quacks to prevent our reasoning from branches as if they were roots, and to guide us in our State measures. The muddy-lica(ledness and neglect of duty to which the Members of the Landed Interest are so prone, and which has entangled them like Sleeping Partners in unfortunate partnership concerns, entitles them to that fate to which our present measures will fast bring them, unless soon arrested by the hand of wisdom. Nothing, my Lord, but that paramount duty which every good Englishman owes to his country, would induce me to expose the State errors of those whom for private virtues I esteem, as I do your Lordship's noble self. Perhaps your Lordship does not consider that if the Bank of England were to discount at one in lieu of four per cent. and to give every other facility to the circulation of a Paper Cur rency, still unless our Agricultural, Shipping, and Colonial interests, receive due protection, we shall net be able to increase our circulating medium but in a trifling degree, as our Corn Bill itself prevents the symbol of our wealth exceeding the pro portion of about 9s. per bushel for wheat. If your Lordship doubts these facts, I am ready to prove them. Your Lordship's very obedient servant, JOSEPH PINSENT, A TRUE PITTITE. 22, Birchin-lane, June 21, 1822. THE ARMY. REVIEW IN HYDE PARK.-Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK reviewed the Coldstream Regiment of Guards, in Hyde Park. He was accompanied by the Duke of WELLINGTON, Sir W. KERR, and many other distinguished Officers, and was received on his appearance with loud cheers.— The regiment went through the various evolu tions with great skill. The dexterity and quick ness with which they formed a solid square, sur passed every thing. Each volley resembled the discharge of a single piece of ordnance ; such was the precision with which each man fired. The Borodino transport arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday evening from the Cape of Good Hope, last from Falmouth, with two companies of the 72d Re g iment, whichiwere disembarked on Thursday. detachment of invalids from the 15th Regiment were immediately embarked on board the same vessel for Portsmouth, on their way to Chatham, to join the invalid depot, pre paratory to their appearing before the Commis sioners of Chelsea Hospital. Thursday se'nnight, Captains CHAMP and RYLANGE'S companies of the 42d Regiment left Limerick for Galway. The second division pro ceeded on the 11th inst. Lieutenant-Colonel IfoLmts, and the Officers and non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the 3d, or Prince of Wales's Regiment of Dra goon Guards, stationed at Piers-hill, Perth, and Newcastle, have subscribed one day's pay, in aid of the general subscription for the relief of the distressed Irish. The new regulations adopted by the Lords of the Admiralty, with regard to the future establishments of his Majesty's dock yards at the several ports, are to be carried into effect on the Ist of the ensuing month. By these regulations, a complete change of system is to take place, by which a considerable saving of expence will be effected, in consequence of the reduc tion of salaries in certain classes, the abolition of offices no longer considered necessary, &c. We understand that the dock yard at this port is to be divided into six distinct divisions or de partments, and at the head of each a superior officer is to be placed, as superintendant, with the proper number of subordi nate officers, clerks, &c. under him, all of whom are to re ceive their appointments from the Admiralty. The offices of Clerk of the Survey, and Clerk of the Rope-Yard, are to be abolished ; those of Master House Carpenter, Master Joiner, &c. arc to be transferred to another department, and the officers who at present hold them (Messrs. Vass and Guyer) are to be superannuated. It is said that 14 or 15 clerks will lose their situations in consequence of these arrangements, and that all the Quartermen and Cabin Keepers, a superior class of men, whose salaries are from 1001. to 1801. are to be placed on reduced establishments. The resident Commissioner of the Navy (the Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart. K.C.8.) is to be al lowed a Secretary, with a salary of 1001. per annum, and a house found him in the Dock-yard.—(Hampshire Chronicle.) SUICIDE COMMITTED BY A CHILD.—On Tues day last, a daughter of Mr. Green, of Charterhouse-lane, who lived servant in the neighbourhood, was sent on an errand, and had the misfortune to lose the key of her mistress's door (as she informed some one of her acquaintance.) From that time she was missed, but on Sunday her body was found floating in the New River. It is supposed that fear of correction was the cause of her committing the rash act. She is considerably under twelve years of age, and was much respected as a well behaved little girl. Yesterday morning, whilst Thomas Botley, la bourer, employed in pulling down the old houses in Whitcomb street, was clearing the rubbish out of one of the vaults, the brick-work at the end of the vault, the only part of it remain ing, fell, and killed him on the spot. AN AMERICAN COURT OF JUSTICE.—A Vir ginia gentleman, who had visited Pittsburgh to attend a trial, gives a singular description of the manners of au American Court of Justice. Nei ther Counsel nor Judge, as is well known, wear a gown. The Barrister retained in the present instance, being incommoded by heat, first stripped off his coat, then his waistcoat. In an interval of pleading, he put a segar into his mouth, and deliberately smoked it till the opposite Counsel had wound up his reply. Since the discovery of the New World our English Gardens have produced 2345 varieties of trees and plants from America, and upwards' of 1700 from the Cape of Good Hope, in addi tion to many thousands which have been brought from China, the East Indies, New Holland, various parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe ; until the list of plants now cultivated in this country exceeds 120,000 To MAKE LEMON BRANDY.—Put three quarts of brandy into an earthen pipkin that has a cover ; add one pound and three quarters of fine loaf sugar, the rind, pulp, and juice of 14 large lemons, and two quarts of boiling milk: let it stand 9 days, stirring it well each. day, then run it through a jelly-bag until clear, bottle it, and it will be fit for use imme diately, and will keep long. THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE DTSCOVERED.—A Provincial Paper, speaking of a fire which had occurred in the neighbourhood on the preceding day, states, that the heat was so great that the leaden spouts were melted, " and fell in a silvery shower." LONDON MARKETS. PRIUE OF BREAD THIS WFK. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread throueoU t the Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be 9d• the Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sell the Quartern Loaf, from one penny to two pence lower. lb. oz. I lb.oz• Peck Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 Quartern Loaf to weigh 4 5 1 Half ditto.. ditto 811 Half Quartern ditto .• 2 21 IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. Wheat English. Irish. Foreign% 6,462 Barley Malt Oats Rye Beans Peas ... Tares .. Rapeseed Mustard Seeds.. Flour Brank Linseed 1,598 469 - 17S --- 118 6,843 135 ........ 550 SEEDS, June 24. • Red Clover (Foreign).. 24s 32s—fine, 44s 52s —s per c wt. Ditto English R. 24s 35s—fine new, 44s 52s 549 , White ditto 3os 46s—fine, 56s 60s _.,.. Bye-Grass ... l4s to 218—new, 26s 305 per ciA ' Turnip Seeds. —s Od 6s to is pr. bush. White Mustard Seed Bs to 10s 0d Brown ditto Os to I Is Od Red and Green .. —s Od to —s Od Carraway Seeds s2s to 56s—fine, 60s Coriander do 9s lOs 14s Cinque Foin 32s to 345--fine —s per qf. Trefoil Ribgrass ... 2Bs 34s—fine, 40s 44s Canary per qr —s 30s to 34s od per qr. Linseed Rape Seed Winter Tares 2Bs to 36s Od per qr. _._,,„ PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt.,June 22. Pockets. I Bags. Kent .. 31 6s a4l4s a 51 5s Kent .. 31 is a4l Os a5l 0! Sussex.. 2i 16s a3lBs a 3i 16s Sussex 21 lis a3l Os a3l bg Essex .. 31 Os a3l 18s a4l 4s Essex.. 21 163 a3l 14s a4l 4s Farnham, fine, 41 lOs to 71 to 101—Second, 41 lOs to 5 1 Old Duty for the year's growth, laid at 125,0001. SMITHFIELD MARKET.—June 24. (To sink the Offal—per Stone of Sibs.) Beef 2s od to 2s Ed Veal Mutton 2s od to 2s Bdl Pork 2s 01 to 4s 04 Lamb 3s 8d to 5s Od HEAD 'OF CATTLE THIS DAY. 40 0 . 2,147 1 Calves 24,010 Pigs Beasts Sheep... NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. By the Carcase. Beef Is 84! to 2s 6d I Veal ls 841 to 49 0 1 Mutton ....... is ad to as 6d Pork 2s od to 39 e" _ . Lamb, 3s lid to 49 4d ST. JAMES'S HAY_ MARKET, June RR. 41 04 Hay.. 31 Os od to 41 5s od Clover, .... 31145 to Sttaw.. 11 14s 6d to RI 8s 0(i I SMITHFIELD. Hay 3l lOs Od to 41 63 Od--Average, 31 1 55 - 4 Straw Clover 3l lOs Od to 41 12s otl--Average, 31 15s WHITE CHAPEL. , R - ' Oa Hay 3l Ss Od to 41 Os Od—Average, 31 • o d New ditto.— 01 Os Od to 01 Os Od—Average, 0 1 (3 ' 5 ix! Straw Clover 3l Ss Od to 4! 15s Od—Average, 31 105 RAW HIDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordinary .... 2s 4d to 4s 5 1 3s Otl to 3s 44: Market Calf .; each.. I' s n - d Middlings ...2s Sd to 2s 10d Eng. Horse Os Od to - Os "- 1 SHEEP SKINS. Fells I Sh ear li ngs 22d t° 3 04 Downs PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 561hs each per lb 22d to 9 4d d Ditto, sfi to 66Ibs each 20 Dressing Hides ltd to - A Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ibs for cutting isid to 19 i Ditto .... 45 to 501bs Calf Skins..o to 40Ibs Ditto 50 to 70Ibs 2sd to e 7o _, Ditto 7O to 801bs 26d to n d ' Small Seals (Greenland) 18d to -- . Large ditto lsd to I sis Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hides 1 1 97 d d t t o o gl 811 t f _..... PRICES OF TALLOW, SW Town Tallow 37s Od —s Od Yellow Russia 36s od —s od White ditto .. —s Od —s od Soap ditto.... 32s Od —s Od Melting Stuff ess od —s Od Ditto Rough.. 17s od —s Od PRICE OF CANDLES, ram Price of Candles, per dozes 6d per dozen allows LP, &c. per 1121b.—J 11 n e Yellow 50ap.......... - -1 45 Mottled ;6, Curd 7 04 Graves Good Dregs ........... • M TALLOW CHANDLER'S HA G• "9 9s Od -Moulds, 105 6u . ed for ready money. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of Slb.—June 21 '0 Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow 111elters)...., COUNTRY MARKET. GUILDFORD M Wheat per 1. 51 Os to 161 5s New Wheat .. 01 Os to 01 Os Oats, per qr... 01 18s to 11 6s New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Os ,RKILT, June 22. Barley, new, 195 tO . 105 ealls, per qr. 1 135 to 1 1 ;$ Pease, per qr. 11 4S to O s Rye, per qr. 01 Os COAL MARKET, June 24. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price' 66 5 0 48i Newcastle . A 6 Sunderland A correspondent of the Brussels Oracle ree °ll : f mends that a subscription be opened in tha t c ;', for the relief of the distress in Ireland, and e D 4 presses a hope that the example will be foll o ' in other cities in the Netherlands. r ge An advertisement lately appeared in the Ge i t? l , '5 Town District of America, headed " A pew in St• Church, in exchange for a horse."—The Savannah 1 10 7 the has a match for it :—" To the Pious—A splendid copy mo rn Holy Bible will be rallied for at the Meeting-house, ing ; the Godly are invited to take chances !" r 'go Two hundred and seventy quarters of ' ° " e , t ie wheat, in bond, have been sold in New ea or since our last, at four shillings and one P en oe r per quarter, or one shilling and a farthi n g n i o r boll! It is lamentable to reflect that the Ps:ci, Irish are starving while abundance of coot w hi la could be purchased for a mere trifle is spoili n g ro , our lofts ! Might not Ministers with gre at P priety bring in a Bill, enabling them to "' der ,' sound foreign corn at a certain price (o ns ba ce' ably higher of course than the price -w e it ° 5 named), and to export such corn for gra t a o ld distribution in Ireland ? Such a measure vceit afford great relief to the Irish peasantry , a 5,1 do as to the holders of foreign corn, and coubhdeii, no harm to the agriculturist, as it would be , to vered to such persons only as could not a if°r r u hati; purchase the produce of the land• — t c — ll Advertiser, June 2 1 .) BIRTHS. On Sunday morning, the 23d inst. in Euston-sclO re ' tile e Lady of William Wightman, Esq. of a daughter. goo, th On Sunday, the 23d inst. at Som ' bourne House , 1- Lady of Col. Pilkington, of a daughter. DIED. gees? On Saturday morning, the 22d i n stant, at No rt h am ' Patrick Thomson, Esq., in the 7 5 th ye ar of his age. f his On the 23c1 inst., after a few days i llness, At th he o use ° J;s 4. father, Buehendon Bury, Hertford , William C. A. Pent' t he SO' Printed and Published for the PROPRIETOIIS, at Mee, No. 112, Strand by J. B. CAp.sTAI Rs• '