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interns' feuds. 'We, are sure that the Indulgence

feelings of this exalted character is most congenial to the
Royal breast, and thereto* we venture to •anticipate, that
the sentiments expressed by the Honae of C 002100119 Mill

meet tslth a most firourahle reception.
This evening the Distillery Bill will probably be read a
third throe in the House of Commons, and a more impor-
tant measure has not for many years been under the consi-
deration of the Legislature. A law founded on the same

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principles' came into operation in Scotland and Ireland
nearly two years ago, and it has been attended with the
most beneficial eff.•cts to the agricultural interest, tind also
to the morals of the people. In Ireland the annuai•conaump-
tion of home-made spirits has increased upwards of four
millions of gallons since this law was passed, and in Scot-
land the increase is not less than three millions of gallons.
By the reduction of duties, and by the repeal of improper
restrictions on the distillery trade, Government hag fur-
nished the agricultural interest with a market in Scotland
and Ireland for an additional growth of at least three hun-
dred and fifty thousand quarters of barley ; illicit distilla-
tion and the demoralising trade of smuggling foreign api•
rite, has been nearly annihilated, and the revenue has
suffered no diminution. Although the quantity of duty
paid, spirits consumed in Scotland and Ireland has
been doubled under the present Distillery Laws ;
still there has been no increase in the total quan-
tity of spirits consumed in these kingdoms, for the

quantity of foreign spirits smuggled into them before
the law was ahtended, was fully equal to the increase which
has lately taken place in the consumption of home-made
spirits. When the populace is not employed in foreign

smuggling or in illicit distillation, there is less inducement
to drunkenness; and it is a well-known fact, that already
a considerable improvement is visible in the moral conduct
and outward appearance of the people in Ireland and Scot-
land, chiefly attributable to the alteration in the Distillery
Laws.

The object of the Bill to be read a third time in the
Commons this evening, is to assimilate the Distillery Law
of England to that of Scotland and Ireland, and by per-
mitting the manufacture of the finest spirits, to increase
the consumption of British grain in England. No doubt
can be rationally entertained that by adopting the same
liberal plan in England that has been so successfully pur-
sued in the other parts of the empire, his MAJESTY'S Mi-
nisters will destroy the trade of smuggling foreign spirits
into this country ; and at the same time, and by the same
means, increase the revenue, and render an essential ser-
•ice to the morals of the people. The increase of con-
sumption, when the law will permit wholesome and fine
spirit, to be manufactured in England, cannot be esti-
mated at less than eight millions seven gallons, being
equal to four hundred thousand quarters of barley, which
are now, in the face of the Corn Laws, annually imported
into England alone, in the character of Dutch gin.

There la one clause in this act, which has given very

unnecessary alarm to the agricultural interest, and that is,
the permission which is granted to reduce Colonial rum into
British gin. Now, it is notorious that the total quantity
of rum annually imported, does not exceed five millions
of gallons, of which, one half is re-exported or consumed,
duty free, by the Royal and Mercantile Navy. There is
besides a considerable consumption of ram in the country,
and the quantity which can be spared annually for rectifi-
cation, can never exceed one million of gallons, being equal
to only 50,000 quarters of barley. On this rum, the act im-
poses an additional duty of is. gd. per gallon before it can
be used by the rectifiers. This duty is equal to 255. per
quarter on barley, and surely this is protection enough to
agriculture, if the quantity of rum was four times greater
than it really is. It is however doubtful whether the cha-
t racter of rum can be so far changed as to admit its conver-
sion into British gin. Its quality must at all events be
inferior to the pure spirit produced from grain, and the
landed interest has nothing to fear from the experiment.
By the alteration in the Distillery trade which the passing
of this Bill will produce, the consumption of British barley
will be increased at least 800,000 quarters, adding to the
annual income of agriculture nearly one million and a half
sterling. The people will obtain a cheap and wholesome
spirit in place of the very infetior quality which the•.exist-
ing law alone permits to be manufactured. The smuggling
trade in spirits will be entirely destroyed ; the Dutch dis-
tillers will lose a market for many millions of gallons of
spirits; and foreign agriculture will lose the sale of a mil-
lion of quarters of grain, which they now enjoy, by
smuggling its produce into the United Kingdom.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.

We seldom recollect to have witnessed store cheerfulness on the
Stack Exchange than was exhibited this morning, although the
business was not extensive. The British Funds were higher,—
Consols for the opening being at 91*, and the Reduced Annuities
at 90* 4.
In the Foreign Market almost all the attention of speculators
was drawn to Spanish Securities, which improved considerably.
The Bonds of 1821 were done as high as 941 5, and those of 1823
reached 20. Some large purchases were made at these prices; and
larger ones would have taken place had not holders been disinclined
to sell. Greek Scrip maintained itself steadily at its improved
price 10* 10 discount. The Bonds were at 48 9. South American
Securities were held with great firmness. Colombian Bonds were
at lqf 3 ; and Mexican Scrip 2i 4 discount. Brazilian Scrip was
at 11 I ; and Danish ditto at 4 3* discount.
Shasta for the most part looking up. Anglo Mexican Shires
were at 90. Those of the United Company at 21i 8. The Pasco
Peruvian Shares at 14* The New Potosi Company at 71 ; and
the Shares of the General Mining Association at 12.

The /Well, from Bengal, has arrived off Plymouth.
The Letters she brings are of an old (late, as she sailed
from that Presidenq as the 10t11 Jan. The letters in this
instance from Madras, are as late as the 12th Feb., and
merely commercial.
The Baauta Gazette Feraordinary of the 4th of March,
contains the frst official intelligence of the recognition of
the independence of Colombia by Great Britain. Great
rejoicings had taken place in consequence.
In consequence of the establishment of British Packets
to Colombia, a packet has been appointed by the Colombian
Government, to sail re„.mlarly between Carthagena and
Chagres • the effect of' which will be to open a communi-
cation between Panama and Carthagena, which will seldom
occupy more than ten days. Panama, as is well known, is
the route by which intelligence from Peru is generally more
quickly obtained.
The inhabitants of Caucasus are exempted, by the Rus-
sian Government, from furnishing any recruits, because
the population of the province is so scanty, but are to pay
2,000 rubles per man for what would be their quota.
There are now 1,543 students in the University of Got-
tingen ; of whom 807 are foreigners, 310 study (tivinity,
016 law, 2:37 medicine, &c.
On the t.ith of May there was a most remarkable destruc-
tive storm at Sischney-Novogorod. A great many houses
. were thrown down, dooms and windows driven in, and 70
vecels of different sixes were sunk in the river Ocka, and

74 persons lost their lives. The damage is estimated at
100,000 rubles.
A letter from Madrid, in the Journal land, confirms
the report of large Constitutional hands being on the ex-
treme frontiers of Portugal, and of the cummary vengeance
which they take on the Priests who oppose them.
Cowan+ "most Laws.—The Attorney-General, on Sa-
turday morning, brought in a Bill " to repeal the laws
relating to the combination of workmen, and to make other
provisions in lieu thereof "—the Bill was read a first time,
and Thursday next was fixed for the second reoling.

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THE DUKE OF YORK.

The following are the answers returned by his Royal
Highness to the addresses he has received from the Dubs
lin Guild of Merchants, and from certain of the loyal inha-
bitants of Chester:—
Horse Guards, 10th June, 1635.
Sir,—l beg to acknowledke the receipt of your letter of the &b
instant. transmitting, as Master of the Guild of 51erchanta of the
City of Publtn, an address from the Masters. Wardens, end Bre-
thren of thro respectable Maly, tot; her with a copy of the reso-
lutions to which Buy had agreed, aM to assort you that I have
received with great satiafaciiou the obliging expression of the
friendly sentiments towards me entertained by them ; and I re-
quest that you will accept yourself, and convey to the Guild of
Merchants of Dublin. the assurance of my thank■ tOr the terms
in which they have noticed the line of conduct which 1 have felt it
my duty to pursue.
I am, Sir, yours,
To Sir A. H. Elng, Bart, FREDERICK.
Horse Guards, June 13.
Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of the address which
you and Mr. Egerton have been instructed to present to me from
certain of theloyal inhabitants of the city of IChestdr, arid to re-
quest you will amine them of the OVA! I entertain of the friendly
terms in which they haveexpressed thetneelves in regard to the line
of conduct which I have felt it my duty to pursue upon the subject
of the Catholic Question. I must I urther request, that you will
convey to them my best thanks for the cheese which they have been
so kind as to s:nd me.

I am, Sir, yours,
Davies Davenport, Esq. :11.P. FREDERICK.

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