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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Dzcznara AS, 182 i.

The Paris Papers of Saturday, with the Eloile and Pilate
of Sunday, were received in the course of yesterday. The
Elias contains some interesting, and we suppose authentic,
details relative to the circumstances attending the decease
of the Emperor ALE; NnElt, and the Proclamation of his
successor, CONSTANTINE. There seems now to be no
reason for believing that A t.exaxnr a died by violence,
and the proceedings of the Imperial Family, after his death,
indicate the existence of nom: of those feelings which must
have prevailed if he had perished by the hand of the
assassin. On Sunday the Court of France went it.to
mourning for his late Imperial Als;esty. The mourning
will be black for the first eleven days, and white for the
last ten. Au order for a similar measure appeared in the
London Gaunt last night. The despatches from Lord
Sins NOFORD, officially announcing the melancholy event,
arrived only on Monday.
' A private letter in the Pilule represents the coasts of
Spain to be infested to exams with Colombian privateers.
All the ships that have vsluehle cargoes are captured on
leaving the Spanish ports. Tice vessels are immediately
destroyed, and the crews landed. The King of Sears/ will
end that the South American question cannot be postponed
indefinitely, unless he has resolved entirely to renounce
foreign commerce.
Faritrcu FIT xua.--PARTR, Drr. 24—Vive per Cede. 93f. ?Sc.
Ddto for the end of the month a' three o'clock, WU. 30e. Three per
Gluts. eV. OSe. ; ditto for the end of the month, at three o'clock,
413r* 9k. NeePoltisei, 74r. lidc,:-Etoile.

The letter of " A Calm °Aver ver" in another part of our
paper will be read with interest, from his anxiety to rasnove
all cause of immediate apprehension to the Silk Trade, in
c 'sequence of the opening our ports to foreign to nu gh t silk,
and to animate our Manufacturers to the encounter, from
SP assurance that they will suffer but little, if at all, from
the'oontest. Nothing would rekke us more than to find
the result square with his prediction. We arc not our.

selves alarmists. That the British Silk Manufacturer I
may one day enter the field with his foreign rivals we do
not deny ; but he will require a previous trainitl for the
contest. It is—in our view of it—a question of time ;in
skill he is already equal to his competitor; in capital more
than equal ; but in machinery—tbere he is behind : he is
making, however, great advances towards (quality. But
will he invest his capital in machinery with this fear of a
foreign rival before his eyes? We think not. It is not
merely from France and Switzerland, be it remembered,
that he has a successful competition to dread; he has
more to fear from Bengal than either, and from China
than all combined. If. has, in the latter, to vie with
cheapness of labour united with extreme skill, and there
again conjoined with a power of imitation that is almost
miraculous. As to the sincere anxiety of Government to pro-
mote the real interests of the trade, that, as we have already
said, has never been doubted. That the principles of
,free
trade are in themselves, taken in the abstract,essentially good,
sound and enlightened—all who truly understand them
must be equally disposed to admit. But the point in issue
is—will the app/leaden of them to the SILL THADI of
Great Britain, in the resent state of its progress, he a
measure protecti..e of its interests, and conducive to its
present and permanent benefit ? That they may be ap-
plied with success to various other branches of industry,
we can readily imagine—more especially when aided by
that reduction of tares, to which OW present Ministers
have been attentive far beyond all their predecessors, and
which has raised them so deservedly high in public con-
fidence and in popular estimation. But in regulations em-
bracing the great concerns of commerce the best intentions
may be frustrated. It is the actual state of a trade which
can :done determine on the policy of the measures to be ap-
plied to it.
We adduce the following documents—tha correctness of
which may be depended on—to show the state of iMprove-
ment, by comparison, between the silk manufacture of
France and Great Britain:—

IN FRANCE.

Consumption of silk, raw and thrown, in 1820 - 3,±10,00016,:

Ditto Ditto in 1824 • 5,050,000 lbs.
Being an increasl of 2.000,080 lbs., or nearly two.third4 in 4 years.
_ _ _

To which we have to subloht the important fact, that of
the silk consumed—
In 1820 the produce of France was . . 2. the
imported from other countries . 3-sths
But in 1824 the produce of France was 2.3ds
and imported - - 1-Sd
It is the opinion of well-informed merchants, that in a
few years importation will nearly, if not wholly, cease.
The increase in the English consumption, in the same
period, is as follows:
Raw and thrown imported from all parts in 1820 . 2,547,211 lbs.
Ditto Ditto in 1824 - 3,382,357 lbs.

To show the improvement of the Swiss and German ma-
nufacturers, u well in utivity as in the power of produc-
tion, it is necessary to state that they receive their supplies
from the north of Italy, which is likewise the same market
that furnishes silk--raw and thrown—to the English ma-
nufacturer. This market usually exported silk in equal
quantities to England and other countries ;we mean,
that about one half was exported to England, the other being
distributed among the continental manufacturers : but so
great has been the increase of Swiss and German industry,
that the proportion exported in November last was as
7 to 1 in favour of the continental and against the British
manufacturer. It may here be proper to observe, that
France receives no supplies from the north of Italy, being
furnished exclusively from Piedmont.

Every one whose attention is drawn to the important
=tett of the Silk Trade of Great Britain, and to the, ope-
ration of the new law as connected with the inferences to
which the above statements lead, will appreciate their 'im-
portance. We would commend them to the consideration
of our correspondent, the Calm Observe?, who has shown
himself so well qualified to estimate the weight and value
of all the consequences which may be drawn from them.

CITY', TUESDAY EVENING.

The holyday at the Bank to-day had a natural tendency
to depress the British Funds, from the circumstance of
there being no bargains for money, and Consols were heavy
without any apparent cause. The price declined from 821,
at which it opened, to 6111. The market became firmer in
appearanc2; but there was, as we understood, no reaction
for an advance. Reduced Stock sold at so for Thursday.
Exchequer Bills were at par to 2s. dis. ; and India Bonds
at the same price.
The transactions in the English Securities were very
limited, but those in the Foreign Market were still more
so, and the quotations, particularly in South American
Stocks, werelower. Colombian Bonds were 601, Mexican
6 per Cents. 64, 65, ant". Russian Bonds 784. There was
scarcely any other business done in this market.
A renewal of business occurred in Mining Shares.
Anglo-Mexican Shales were 5 premium, United riTexican
ditto 71, and Real Del Monte Shares reached 150 prem.

Private athiees from Cadiz of the Bth inst. speak con-
fidently of the intention of the new Sdanish Ministry to
make a free port of Cadiz, and to admit goods into it upon
the payment of moderate duties. Two meetings of the
principal merchants in that city had already taken place,
and a Commission, consisting of three or four persons duly
nualified for the task, had been appointed to draw up a
Memorial to the King, upon the present state of the corn-
merez of Cadiz. It is stated that the object of this Me-
morial will be to demonstrate, that the pent defalcation
hitherto experienced has ariecn more from the excessive
duties imposed on Hritidi manufactures, and from the ex-
tensive system of smuggling which is carried on, then from
the entire extinction of the commerce of South America.
In consideration of the commercial advantages which are
to be solicited, Cadiz engages to pay into the Royal trea-
sury, in the first instance, a certain sum cf money, besides
an annual anfount equal to what was realised by the cus-
toms, twenty or thirty years ago. The measure is stre-
nuously supported by the Governor-General, by the
Bishops, the Clergy, and all the local authorities of the
city. It is thought, however, that should Cadiz he made
a free port, it will materially affect the trade of Gibraltar.
The former is considered as a port easy of access at all
times, and with all winds.

In the Frankfort Papers, under the date of Switzerland,
December. 17, we find the following statement :—" Two
proposals have been made, in the Representative Council
of Geneva, ene to abolish the punishment of the pillory,
the other, Tsui It!ix fitustunique zit, for the abolition of the
penalty of death."
Advicca from Zante state that the intrepid defendca
of Missolonghj, perceiving that they are on the point of
being attacked by sea and land, had resolved to maintain
the contest :o the last. After a general review, in which
each Chief embraced the soldiers, the Bishop gave them
his benediction, sprinkling the holy water on their stand-
ard, which was:decorattd with crowns of laurel ; at the
same time were embarked for Zante and Cephalonia, the
archives of the Government, as well as the old trot, wo.,
men, and children. The separation caused the greatest
grief. All commtn.icatien was still open with Missolenglii
by sea and land, and numerous bodies of troops have
entered as wello as a great quantity of provisions. They
were also working on the batteries. This ground, already
bathed in blood, will be defended, inch by inch, as there
arc no hopes of retreating.—Paris Paper. •

THE BRITISH PRESS.

FRENCH PAPERS.

[From the Pikfc of Sunday.)
MURCIA, DEC. 2.

(PRIVATE LETTER.)

" From the Siraiia of Gibraltar to the waters of earthagens,
the number of Colombian corsairs, large and small, is very con-
siderable. All our ships, whose cargoes are valuable. income their
prey, and, to comple!c our misfortune, those which are not laden
they sink or burn. We see landed en our coasts, every day, the
unfortunate mews of ships taken. sunk, or burnt. On the lid Inst.
the Commissary of Marine of Almeria received &deices from dif-
remit maritime points on the must of the kingdom of (Irene', in
which it was announced, that on the 9d, and on the morning of die
Id, fifteen vessels had been captured. These corsahw, havirg re-
solved to annihilate our mercantile navy, have taken their mea-
sures so well, that no ship can escape aem., They have armed
small boats, which pan along the coast touching the land, enter
our ports, and carry off ships. This has just happened at las Ho-
quetas close to Almeria, where they have seized in the port a large
three masted vessel, which bad taken refuge there."

[From the Courier Francais of Saturday.l
Pants, DrC. 23.
The Minister lies just taken his part with respect to the trial of
Ouvraril. There was at first a report circulated that the Attorney-
General would move in the Court of Caseation against the order of
the Royal Court, but the (Hai- is decidedly sent to the Chamber of
Prem. This is a great step. The Minister did not resolve upon It
till after many dircutsions in Council and mature deliberation ;
yet, nevertheless, in adopting it, it would have been difficult to do
it with a worse grace.
M. Benin is charged with the functions of a public Minister in
the Chamber of Peers.