The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-26 00:00:00

Vie tibtrpoot A,tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1833. WE have received a file of New York papers to the 31st March, but they do not contain any article of politi cal interest worth extracting. 'IMPORTANT news is said to have been received in Paris on Sunday last relative to the state of affairs in Constan tinople. The following notice, as if official, was posted at the new commercial rooms in that capital, called the Lloyd's Francais:— "It is stated that the Russian fleet has taken possession or the Dardanelles, and that 10,000 Russians have entered Con stantinople. All was tranquil there." If this intelligence be true, and we have some appre hension that it is, the apathy or ignorance of the British government has thrown European Turkey into the hands of Russia. It is well known that England, some time agoovas pressed to aid . Russia in adjusting the quarrel, without the intercession of France ; but this the patrio tic Lord Palmerston deemed an affront to his loving ally Louis Philip, and his his excellent master and preceptor Prince Talleyrand. The war, therefore, was allowed to rage merely upon a point of etiquette, and it continued to do so, most disastrously to the arms of the sultan, un til the Emperor Nicholas had no alternative but to yield to the solicitations of the Ottoman government, and take upon himself the preservation of the capital, and the set tlement of the differences between the belligerent parties. This is the manner in which the character of Great Britain is allowed to sink all over the world ! Lord Chatham used to say that he would not allow a cannon to be fired in Europe without his consent, thus proudly upholding the power, the honour, and the renown which the monarchy of England had acquired by force of arms , and by her moral influence, wherever the name of Eng land was known. Our modern dastards, however,—our political imbeciles,—our nursery of liberal statesmen — allow themselves to be outmanoeuvred and overreached, juggled, cheated, and laughed at by every petty upstart of the continent, and by every unwashed diplomatist, with perfect impunity. Don Pedro, drummed out of his father's dominions, by his father's blacks, and found in capable of.ruling a communion of Brazilian slave dealers, is allowed to interrupt our trade in our quasi colony of Portugal, to which he has not half so good a right as the pope has to the palace of Lambeth ; and this permission to pillage and plunder us and our ancient allies is called liberality! On the other hand the hero of the barricades, the citizen king, in order to aggrandise the power of France, and forward a family arrangement, for the do mestic part of which the good people of England have to pay 'dearly, is permitted to defeat all the overtures made by,Holland for a settlement of the affairs of Belgium, and the revival of those commercial intercommunications in whichAe merchants of this country have so deep an in terest. This, too, we suppose is called liberality ! It is this attachment to French interests: which has prevented the qiustment or those dissensions in the east which have mediated the overthrow of the Ottoman empire. How long this imbecility is to mark the counsels of King William the Fourth it is impossible to tell; but it is:pretty clear that if Lord Althorp be permitted to ma nage our financial, and Lord Palmerston our foreign af fairs, they will speedily leave us little to look after at Lome, and nothing to take care of abroad. We are cer tainly in a most thriving way ! JUST as we predicted in our last, Lord Althorp has found his advertisement scheme impractiCable, and has abandoned it. The noble lord must be as imperturbable as a bronze statue or he would sink into the earth at the noise of the loud laughter which his blunders give rise to from one end of the kingdom to the other. What can the man be made of Y It is no mark of either ignorance or insanity to see a man occasionally fall into error and render himself lUdicrous, but the singular infelicity of the noble lord's sayings and doings is that he never hap pens to be right, even by mistake, on any subject whatever. He has taken our advice for once, and from necessity, and intends making his reduced duty a fixture—a "fixed figure" like himself " fur the hand of scorn!" VE are enabled in this day's STANDARD to give some long, and nearly verbatim extracts, from the evidence lately given before a select committee of the House of Commons - relative to the late Liverpool election. Mrs. Robinson's evidence speaks for itself ; but it is to that given by Mr. Abercrombie that we are most desirous to call the attention of our readers, and next to that the con trasted evidence of Mr. Fairclougb. . The Five pound note, is the only note of the kind seen during the election, and what is very singular, al though numbers of persons were present, Mr. Abercrom bie is the only person who did see it I' What is still more remarkable, he saw it placed in the hands of a voter by a gentleman whose back was turned towards him, and whom he estimated, by his back, to be about thirty years of age ! ! It is also strange that the. Mr. Baird to whom Mr. Aber crombie imparted what he had seen, shortly after he had seen it, is not produced ! ! ! This, to say the least of it, is curious evidence, and quite unique in its way, upon which to found a charge against three thousand burgesses, and to call for their disfran chisement from the rights and privileges of British sub jects.. tint‘niore of this anon. _ . THE 'representatives of -the nation have, for three nights, since Monday last, been discussing one of the must important questions that ever came' . before Parli•a imerv.77a7iiitestion of an intricate and complicated nature, but . of deep and engrossing interest, inasmuch as it in volves the credit, the prosperity, the. honour, and the hap piness of the country. We need hardly say, that we al lude to the motion of Mr. Matthias Attwuod, which is in these words : • • "That a setectcomulittee be appointed to inquire into the state of general distress, di!fieulty, and 'embarrassment which nosy presses on the various orders of tho: community,—how far the same has be.eri occasioned by the operation of our present 1 4 111 A, LIVER PC monetary system,—and to consider the effects produced by that system upon the agriculture, manufacture, and commerce of the united kingdom, and upon the condition of the industrious and productive classes." That the nation is in a state of embarrassment,—that embarrassment and distress have been on the increase for some time—is now admitted by all parties. No one fact can be more obvious or indisputable than this, namely, that the people suffer more severely from the pressure of the present amount of taxation than they did when it was nearly double the sum nominally, and more than double the sum when we take into account the increase of po pulation since 1815. It is an incontrovertible fact, that the people of the united kingdom, when the population was only 18,700,000, paid much more easily and with far less murmuring £78,000,000 of taxes thin they now pay 1.£48,000,000, notwithstanding that the population is in creased to 24,000,000. Now, as Mr. Fryer, the member , - for Wolverhampton, says, " how do you account for that ?" It will not be said, that there is any lack of in dustry in the country: The people are as active, specu lative, ingenious, and persevering as ever. The bucket is not suspended in the well—the wheel has not ceased to turn—the fire is not quenched in the furnace. Neither can it be said that there.is any scarcity of capital in large masses, for the 3 per cents. are at 871, and bankers' bills, and the bills of first-rate merchants can be discounted for 2 per cent. Still, how is this inability on the part of the people to sustain the pressure of a diminished taxation to be accounted for ? Mr. Matthias Attwood and his friends ascribe this state things to the effects of the currency bill of 1819, corn tnonly called Peel's Bill. In that year the Parliament, 'misled by the calculations of Mr. Ricardo, who estimated *the depreciation at 4 per cent., and no more, (an unfortu nate error which has produced all the suffering and cala mity,) passed a law that the debts of the country, contract ed in depreciated paper, should be paid in gold of the old standard value, viz., £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce. The effect of that law, which, after some deferment, and many un toward coincidences, has since been carried into full operation, was precisely this : Every man who owed twenty shillings—the landlord under a mortgage—the tenant under a lease, and every other obligant—every man,' in short, who owed twenty shillings, contracted in the paper currency, was compelled to pay twenty shil lings, not in silver, not in copper, not in iron, but in gold ! In this way every paper obligant, and there were no obligants of any other description, was compelled to pay at least 325. 6d. for every 20s. he owed. This we contend is a simple statement of the facts.— Parliament was misled—it legislated in ignorance—the philosophers were at fault—Mr. Ricardo was a false oracle—and the people, intoxicated by the auri sacra fames, consented to• pay their debts nearly twice over, and be burthened in all time coming with the monstrous obligation of paying ,the national creditor a hundred pounds in gold for every fifty-six pounds they had bor rowed in a depreciated paper currency. Every advocate of Peel's bill is obliged to confess that Ricardo was in error—even Sir Robert himself admits that he was de ceived, and that his calculations were based upon false data. As to the actual aniount of the depreciation there are various opinions; some admitting 25, and others cou tending for 50 and 60 per cent. At all events as regards the national debt—the sum due' to the national credi tor by the public—we are as near the truth as possible when we say that to the extent of seven hundred millions, for every £56 which we borrowed in paper, we bound ourselves, by Peel's bill, to pay £lOO in pure gold. This being the case, the next question that arises is— , how is the evil to be remedied ? We have committed a great error, and inflicted a great wrong. We have beg gared thousands of families—we have pinched millions-- we have robbed all .who were debtors at that period, and benefited all who had the good fortune to be creditors, among whom, as is very natural, and excessively liberal, are many of the most strenuous and able advocates of the measure which we deplore, and now when the error is discovered, and the day of reckoning has come, we are called upon to decide whether we should bear the ills we have, or return back and do an act of justice at the ha zard of another monetary convulsion. That is what forms the subject of discussion in parliament, and the public await their decision with an anxiety, we had almost said with an apprehension, which it is impossible to describe. The motion of Mr. Matthias Attwood, who by the way is one the ornaments of our own party, and one of the ablest and clearest-headed men in parliament,—the mo tion, -*we say, is carefully and cautiously worded. It merely pledges the house to inquiry. It recognises the existence of severe and general distress, which is not de nied by. any one meniber, far - . as we can perceive, ex cept Sir Robert Peel. This• enquiry is to embrace our monetary system, but no plan is suggested for the pur pose of altering or depreciating the present circulating medium. Lord Althorp, therefore,. argued most disen genuously when he assumed that the objeet of Mr. Att wood and his friends was to depreciate the currency.— They have made no proposition of the kind. Such a pro- ' position, however, emanated from 'an . opponent of the motion. •Mr. Baring's arguments were as usual in fa your of the committee, although he avowed his intention to vote against it. In .propounding certain remedies, he admitted the principle contended fur by Me; Attwood, and proved the necessity for enquiry. His opposition to the motion, and his proposed remedies, are as singular as they. are inconsistent. . Sir Robert Peel resisted the mo tion, on :the bold ground that no distress existed, or, if any, that it had not been produced by his bill ; and Mr. Baring resisted it because •he wished to modify the inju rious effects of by certain financial remedies of his own device. These were, first, by making silver as well as 'gold the -legal standard; secondly, by making Bank of England notes a legal tender all over the country ; and thirdly, by allowing bankers to issue one pound notes. How a person of Mr. Baring's experience and sagacity c AIM recommend these remedies, and yet• at the same time join'Sir Robert Peel in opposing the motion of Mr. Attwood we are totally at a loss to: conceive.. He had ,the same notion of the right honourable baronet's bill as the Englishmaa had of the Frenchman's shirt, which, 01, STAN DA D. having beautiful ruffles and frills, wantea.nothing to ren der it a perfect shirt but a body. Mr. Baring likes the frills well enough, but is anxious to attach a body to them in the most delicate manner possible, and without any further enquiry. Sir Robert Peel, however, is far from being thankful for the overtures of Mr. Baring, and regrets his amend ments as if they were remedies worse than the disease. Speaking of the proposal to make silver as well as gold a legal standard, he says,—" 1 t would be ruin to the debtor. Where a debt was contracted in gold it would be positively dishonest to pay it in silver. Persons who had made de posits at the bank would try to recover the gold they had deposited. Would any man advance 20s. upon mortgage when there was a certainty of his being paid off in a less value ?" This sort of reasoning is, we regret to say, unworthy of Sir Robert Peel. The lender and the borrower would be on an equality in this respect, for the advance might be in silver as well as the repayment. But why all this 'new-born sympathy for the lender ? There was none of this evinced when the debtor was robbed in 1819. When the amount of every man's obligations was actually dou bled by: Peel's bill, we heard then of no bursts of indig nant and censorious morality about the dishonesty of de frauding the obligants. There was then no crime in converting a depreciated paper into gold at the expense of the nation—thereby doubling the wealth of the great capitalists—doubling the public debt—doubling the pres sure of taxes—limiting the credit of the country—de stroying the available resources of the middle and indus trious classes—increasing the poor-rates—and multiply ing the number of paupers. No reparation, it would seem, is to be made for past errors, or past crimes; the present policy is to be persisted in for no reason that we can divine, but that John Smith or Peter Jones, who made 50 per cent. upon their capital in 1819, should not lose 5 or 15 per cent. upon it in the righteous adjustment of 1833. Such, we are sorry to say, appear to be the 'sentiments of Sir Robert Peel. At our latest advices the debate had not ended, and it is still questionable how it will end. Ministers, it will be observed, have not moved a positive negative upon the enquiry. They could hardly venture to do so, when it is 'well known that Lord Grey, the Duk , a of Richmond, Sir James Graham, Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Edward Ellice all entertain sentiments on the currency question very nearly allied to those of Mr. Matthias Attwood. Lord Grey has repeatedly avowed these sentiments in his place in Par-. liament, and Sir James Graham has not only brought for. ward (during the last administration) a motion almost word for word the same as that now under discussion, but he has moreover defended Mr. Attwood'S opinions in one of the ablest and most convincing pamphlets we ever read. In the teeth of these well authenticated facts Lord Althorp could not, with any decency, negative the mo tion. On the contrary, with his usual candour and art lessness, he only endeavoured to strangle it by means of an ingenious amendment which had little or no connec tion with the subject in dispute, and in moving it he con fessed, that he only required a pledge from the house not to depreciate the currency, so that in case the committee should be granted, it might be restricted in its proceed ings, and thus rendered as inefficient as possible. It was a most contemptible manoeuvre and could only have originated with Mr. Poulett Thomson. SOME of the respectable members of the Society Of Friends, have taken exception to an article in a previous STANDARD, in which an allusion was made to Mr. Joseph Pease, the member for South Durham, and a Mr. Faith ful, the member for Brighton. The ground of excep • tion is, that we accused the Quakers and some other lay sectarians of aspiring to and possessing more extensive privileges in the House of Commons, than are enjoyed by the members of the Church of England. What we stated was neither more nor less than the truth. Mr. Pease may not be a teacher in his commu nion ; but Uwe is nothing to prevent his being so, or having been so, nothing to prevent his being a member of Parliament. A teacher, or an expounder among the Quakers is, to all intents and purposes, as much a priest in their sect, as is a deacon or priest in the Church of England. But mark the distinctive privileges of the two parties. A Quaker teacher or priest may enter Parliament, and as a legislator may become the assail ant of the Church; but no ordained priest of the estab lishment is allowed to enter within its walls. This was all we meant, and we meant nothing invidiously. The case of Mr. Faithful is still stronger. He has been called to the ministry by some obscure sect in the town of Brighton, and he has been called to_Parliament by the political unions of that very loyal town. He is a preacher in his conventicle, and he is a talker and as pires to be a teacher in the chapel of .St. Stephen. In the latter place he rails most loudly, coarsely, vulgarly, bitterly, and of course, most ignorantly, -against the church of England; but—and here is the hardship—no priest nor minister of the Church of England is per mitted to enter the arena with him, to. defend that es tablishment which he loves, and which the law has re cognised as being the parent and protectress of all true religion. But. while we are on this subject let us, in pure kind ness, exchange another word with some of our respected friends among the Quakers. We dO not complain of the superior privileges which the law has conferred upon them, above the members of every other sect; but we have a just right to complain of the inferior and almost degrading position in which it places us of the Church of England. A Quaker is allowed to state that upon his affirmation, or his simple. word, which we are com pelled to state under the. solemn sanction of an oath. The natural induction from this is, that the word of a Quaker is in law, considered to be equal to the oath - of any other professing Christian. This we say, and we lament to say it, throws a slur upon us. If oaths are dispensed with in one instance, they should be dis pensed with generally. We cannot recognise the .prin ciple of invidious purity=. We cannot sanction the supe riority that any given tenets confer upon any one or mute classes of professing Christians. The scriptural tr c , al l 'd to •Y'ar j-P. • - ti, h..; 11. 4 ksj, , p ii. ov e ,. , • - - . .._ . c .fr'k ir qa t ,,, , V . 11 canons make no such distinction. The bible tii, l i f , th e T., cognise the idiomatical adage, that one rila r ' i PI. tili tte 'er, colt whilst another must not look over the Noee t°° ° I . be * . tt lo9 ' the simple affirmation be scriptural let i t bi slusti, al adopted ; if not, let the more solemn e, aPP e e a to 0), ntil sally enforced, in all courts of justic W i av, ia ,„ r royal and constitutional trust s . . f " 05t,,,,ab1, ... I VIt -s ° - : 't.h is -- WE have very great pleasure in noticing the 'US ' ll 'e i ,, ure eo fi Mr. Withers to the situation of Treasurer to thof x 4 441 t vacant by the death of Mr. Pickering. The (-7°0?) use k Tuesday lest, when they proceeded to make t he ps i J o ''st i rliol There were, we believe, in the first instance, n ° e ' . lit "ititl, l : ° than ten candidates ; the struggle, however, '1 l .i r ,l ' i , P 4 three, namely, Mr. Withers, Mr. Braucker, ai l ,', foil, the votes were as follows—For Mr. 'Withers, thesu . ill s i ' c o a, at -1 didate, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Wright, Mr. Smith, - --1 ), , ~t 1 int l ., Sandbach, Mr. Ripley, * Mr. Brocklebank, Al r ' 0. ' O n toy - , Myers, and Mr. Case ; for Mr. J. B. Brancker, jo y 11 1 ,;Loes Sir George Drinkwater, Mr. Littledale, and sir pt ; ir i o,Z t l e ' for Mr. Langton, Mr. Benson, M r . H o rnby, 311. c e :' l''' r er of , Mr. Earle. A sum of £S(X was voted by t he r - ,„ . 21 ; 5 , ?le. the widow of the late Mr. Pickerin g , in cons iee : ' 'he 1 ; long and faithful services of this individual, W I 41 4 ie, ( 4 ) . one was more highly respected, either in Pr i ,' l ' 4 l, ) it`, l ,art life. We feel conscious that the election of 3- ` r ; c al . i .t , '' t ; ti l• this appointment is one which has given very g e l k ' l lis 0 . tion, nor do we conceive that any other in r ot ~, ,' I -11 - selected better calculated to discharge the ire li jec a, 4 o , ponsible duties attached to the office of Treasurer', Le,,, i a pl a recent number of our publication, adverted , ill . s . elt, t il tilt:: to the proceedings of the Dock Committee in this shall probably, in our next paper, offer some fll „ r fa , t i etp o , tions on the subject, which the crowded state" i p " t } ,P ts ' / precludes us from entering into at present. der . q,, ol s , rli tt gratified to learn that a subscription has bee" th e " N !,',ey present the members of the Underwriters' Room, for „ , 4 e it ,,' It ping Mr. Withers with - a testimonial of t'' %(I th r 4 re entertained by those gentlemen of the valuable r e r. l t Tth e l dered by this individual, for a period of s evente en ' a a , t 'ou t ~... Or, 't ts, __..--• 3.4 f' at re tlee • One of our contemporaries, " The Albion," ,h,. g t4 „the , a digiously facetious in his old age, and his reaa.,, e 4lo t p a '°ll o ,, r . less been electrified by the flashes of his wit. 'll e tio / 4 . 3 1 t o I , may nut be put to the great labour and inconcen.; ion e ~--• ' ing through the whole of that ponderous concerlory ono, wit, and lest they should do so without discov er 'f, la t ,,,,k i , of their search, we point their attention to th e ei . ' 4 le " SALE OF FLATS," which appeared in that 1 33 ,. 1)- 0 4 ' 3 4 last. When this announcement first caught o u ' e re at s vll imagined that the good people of The Albion W pal t,hlll. for Sale, and passed it without further notic e ' I. i . "' itt l, them or their wit. a very saleable commodity. , f lili. W llieh' LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICIILTVIO-or tt th As a relaxation from our graver studies we,. ° 0,1 - 4 lts e M. paid the Corn Exchange a visit, to witness tu e ,,,, re w r og o Shrubs, Flowers, and Vegetables, under the ttf . 'ita op 4. useful institution. The collection contained , 11 irt" 'le e 'll , us to, be some very beautiful plants and flowers asa we are supposed to know every thing by intuitiloo' l 4 Z (ts,';• llll 's , fess our incompetence to classify or describe w,." t 0 bo th ''''e the Florists' Manual, or some other helpinate tp 3 ,01 b oes . '„ of us to convince our readers of our profound 1 01 ,, e , g one t ube Floral and Horticultural Sciences. NVe, therel li ' s t!l', ' O l 4 t. e we say that the collection was very good, that oar I t , , i , li s e .1104 q tli be taken, and not valued a whit the less bee n, , ran,, ih rti „,,°,ll pressed in "terms ()fart." The day was beautiftt"iber'' . E ' dri'd' Li piny numerous, and was as gay in appearance O h frq s , I,‘tios - ` b os, went to examine. To confess the truth, althoug 114 k' t he '''i " sear and yellow leaf," ours was but a divided4o,, 4 %4,i-4a among the blooming exotics that scented the v ae L' at ' , te 4 ,7 b e beauties of a more animated character dent 3° 0 ,1) . tOC„ of share of our homage—beauties perhaps as on'ca : ' , 4) ole r ea: charms, as the inanimate objects of their adnairatV i:, , il oit 4'l the company was numerous, we have seen this e t ; ic h ,qi V„' Pi crowded ;—this we attribute to the .influenza w I . - , L 'oti - , 1 ; 41- rages in almost every family in this place. OF s h ush THE LATE JOHN BLACKBURNE, ESQ.- O n t e3l fo,,Akto l l' meeting of the gentlemen and tradesmen of v' s 11' ' - e i , 111, 4 held at the George Inn, to arrange the order 0 `,. 1 , ‘.4t e te to consiiict the - remains of this gentleman throals el , k * e 4 0 4 T , th-s-following day.—We subjoin the resolution s !,pt,. 'il,N °o• Resolved, —" 'that the Gentlemen now Pr e '" t 1 "go t : f others as may be so disposed form a processiol'o,A .' 4 , i ll tli meet the remains of the late John Blackbiirn e gA v i kl„ 4 "That the Gentlemen assemble precisely at '''stl" , a l ,Toa, opposite Mr. Newton's on Latchford Causewal, j ! e,, 4 la" bods through the town. 3 it i' A li ,11, Ye t t 't e "Vhat each Gentleman attend on foot—an d 1 0 , ti l '''t th ' be punctual to the time apPointed, as the fuuer 3 oo o4 'ad t ler s i . e .,,,o , Cheshire Cheese at. Eleven o'clock iu the forer t (a 4 l -40 s a Ye "It is suggested that it would be cons id er ed'. ste` , of,, „ L i tte s 4l " if the Shops were to be Closed from Eleven t, ; jg fh, : 4tlh ,l l,° —particularly in the line of • procession, 1 " 1 " . tts e o -° Sankey-street." • 6 iNe hut) la t i t In pursuance of these resolutions about two v i at t iaa 4 men and tradesmen met the funeral on Ttle' d3 ' . 'liq 4 4 4 40' ) it through the town. The whole of the shoq, ' the p t ., Pit were closed as a further mark of respect to th e a joi , 'll l 4 'it o l) ,`' gentleman, in which we are happy to say all I''''' 5 t , t 4 , 4 ,‘,- ct ~ 4 ei l th 0' 4 1 ; 4 1 1 , 4 ' 41 LONDON L A.TE';'.3l' NE B / ONO t tY . . k11 44 e4 '' e, . Wednesday Evening, Halfil'a s 4 , -IN ', o The prolonged discussion of the East India P ro u , ,are kli ci . specting the I proposals of government stand' sr ' 0,, tv Thursday. ndia Stock maintains its rec:e n '' el f 's , ' et , s tl Y evinces a disposition upwards, 226 to 228 bei lig r ed ' . - ` 3l lst Bank Stock has also been an object of some g , O A has advanced to 196 197. A leading llebr i e`it 1 7 been understood to be a purchaser, for the ` 3 days. . di ns We find, by the 'last accounts from Alesat'lr, Pacha of Eo•ypt continued his preparations for 't te! , ` and laud. ' 7 VI/ a have had re ports that a body °, be tte 'if: 1 Russians has arrived at Constantinople ; but f op Y ' ' premature, although it is known 3.),00.) were ~ tlie ~v I.le naval force of Egypt, at present at sea , P d tV o i e ,, 141) guns ; the Alabella is.ibira, the 3lansour , a t l i iri) , „f each of 100 guns • the Aboukir, of 74; the ' 1 33 ~,or, .l' Itasched, the Gafleria, th,i Sirsooliad, and the v e 0: 11 0 '1 ' ) s', each; the Muftailah, and another, of 56 g,u' 34 f lt i • l tl i . ki8 11 ' 11 '; • vettes, of from 22 to 21 guns; three brio's, ° dclitfi , i 'Ill y 114 1; ' ) P ' and five sloops, of from 12 to 22. guns. In a ', ,1 11 ' t it„ e lpo: there were in the arsenal one vessel - of 149 gu ns ' th e; 1 1'," 0 4 41e,; guns. - . at e, , F a lit u 3sts o Our Consol Market continues very inar-tq s , oil' ~ I, ll 'ai2o c o quotation for the account was 87%. India •'-' ' ,i, . 1 4, 1 6 0 to y 2,:i to 27; and Exchequer Bills at 49 to 50. ~ 15 11 ' 4 04 1, in , In the Foreign Bonds all the nortlyrn Sto cl i, A ,, r ra6 sidered firm : and Dutch Stock left off at -V; ; 10:3' ~ l' , p s ,' lv i 73; Belgian at 88 3d si ; and Russian, at 102!4 a s iorr . 4 it v , v os Portuguese Scrip continues with very little t oid7 i4e,.,i Pl' dis. ; Spanish Bonds arerather objects of sr e , cu ,s ‘ te li / .' ;t s l l '',l l at 19X. In no other security is the any du' ,/, , 'Y 1, 1 ,,." 0 re a_--aro o l i , 4i, h or t ( f i ' e " . : Eons TUNI.—In the first line of the seventh Phlrr,,d:l4 14, 4 41 l fro, longest leading article i n our l as t number, t-,,tlv/i fedC-41t. h a attention, the words are printed as foliows•. e a , c , ,kah , ribb the tax upon clerks, Sc.c." To make, this ' i a, }n oted "the repeal of" should have been omitted. ' , l, l 4 l tt e d , ,--------:.: qii 4 ti± ( l ~.. 0. 0 1 .) . , 1, 1 11) • TO CORRTRPONatzo- ,11' VN, leo' ' rs"ov, ' I N • j a , ',,,, •3, ~, ' The facts of the case alluded to by our correso . r,:kle o .,' ° . ,4(3 1 „, . be inquired into. 0 - ' r t lee i t 'ant G. R. has been received. I ,,i4et, 4 (`, ' k la 1' i' ' ,-, An East Indian forgets that the power of . 11 , ? „cl I. ' i lvlL i nti. granting charters is•not lodged in our haul,j ) , tt' er !- r ,t , 1,. , ill - ,7, gc law-making . is at present rather at a low e „ f ait' 1 3 , ' *, ti," l, t 'No i with him in opinion, that most of our la w- iot e fr - . •til t i t.,-, 1 t sorry journeymen. He had letter coinniutt •, , .444 i tloe t e a e, , N , i ti . " the powers that be." , ill P. to. i l ° , li," 4i, If Pindar sends us any more of his Odes, public, titit ti giving one of them to the Bell-man for ptv:yl ,kt, P , ),, a Pa, . los' i kl, th e A friend to Piety and Order came too late f'l' i;' ' '' 4 " fa. .0 13 , AO the .0 ill'isel l LNt ! ' 4 L e Lid ER POOL; Printed on Tuesdays and Friday-s, ,„„ t , 4 ,,• 1 1 ,,, 4 , , John Street, and Published at - No. 7 Iligh -st "lfe rt ;o l % ts '' di SAMUEL FRANcES:g, Staoner, of N 0.17, Ansou-,4050„.". N Will Advertisements are also received b Messrs. J" x Cif Dublin; and in London I)3r Messrs icyw,rols, vice square, Newgate-street; and Mr. BAattaia, 33, -...,