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of Ranting Cotton had been deposited. Starch is being
*for the perpetrators of this crime.
Justice pursues with activity the inquiry into the conduct of the
authors of the late disorders. All of theca are known, and not one
will escape the severity of the law.
The despatch relative to the arrangement concluded with St•
Domingo, was read on the 11th inst. at the great theatre &T-
-aus, by order of the Prefect, and received with cries Of Fong
the King."
Farxcu Ftrwris.—Pants, Aun. 16.—Five par-Cents. opened
102 f. Awed at 102 f. 10c.; Three per Cents. opened at 71f.;
-Weed at 71f. 40e.; Bank Stock, 2185; Rente de Naples, Certif
Palconnet, 88f. 30e. ; Rente d'Espagne, 17f. ; Royal Spanish
'oan, 82f. Exchange on London: one month, 251.; three months
Bk.—Coara Arthtntiva.

Last night we received the Brussels Papers of Wednes-
Their contents are of little interest. We subjoin
extracts:—
BRITS/ILLS, AUG. 16,
Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures of Amsterdam
received from the agents of the Mexican Government,

, ad interim as Consul-General, and residing at Brussels, a
Bit of such articles as may be imported Into Mexico, duty free,
and of such as are prohibited, has by a notice of the 12th of this
month informed the public of it, inviting those persons whom It
may concern, to inspect the Act at the Office of the Chamber, in
the Town-hall.
BRUSSEIS, Aro. 14.
It is affirmed that Viscount Dubus de Ohissignies, who is ap-
pointed to the office of Commissional...General of the Indies for
three years, will have an annual salary of 190,000 florins, instead of
150,000, as was stated at fat; and that his Majesty has also
panted to this high functionary 40,000 florins for his out fit, and
1,500 florins annually for the keeping up of the garden of the
palace in which he will reside in India.
The .Fouravl de Bruxelles, announcing the appointment of M. de
..(above-mentioned), states that nothing it officially
bins ulivionlng his salary, but that, at his own particular re.
greielk lajt Mikity hail condescended to preserve to him the Go.
Illsoireatat off3outh Brabant, which shall be filled ad interim as his
1111dity shall think fit. Baron Capellan, it adds, is to return to
susepe, and will probably have left Java by the tints N. de
011106110 es arrives.
The Spanish General Alava, proscribed in his own country for
hieing been faithful to hit oath, in defending the Constitution of
the Cortes, has been for these few days past in this city. It Is
inn known that at the time of the battle of Waterloo this General
Vs Minister of Spain to the Government of the Netlietlands, and
that be distinguished himself on that bloody day by his extraordi.
testy intrepidity. lie has settled in England, where he has found
l the Duke of Wellington a friend who alleviates his exile in
diet hospitable country.

L'arnitie Wan gettnd hornale est un bienfait des Dieux.—Bt assets
Paper.

The combination of colliers who have ceased working at
the CLYDE 'at:lx-Worm presents most strongly the mis-
chievous lengths to which this new Union system among
workmen may be carried, when organized bya fewrefractory
individuals, who have the art, by persuasion or by threats,
to bring over the majority to their purposes. In the case
before tie, Mr. DUNLOP'S men, amounting to about 300,
ending no cause to be dissatisfied, were averse to striking;
but the combined colliers, consisting of about 2,000, de-
cided, at their public meeting, that these men in the em-
ploy of Mr. DUNLOP (the proprietor of these extensive
works) should not continue to work for him upon Me old
terms, but should join the general combination, and receive
their subsistence out of the common fund raised for the
support of its members. Mr. DUNLOP'S men had no alter-
native but to comply with the will of the DIRECTORY.
All appeal against it they knew must be fruitless, and they
felt that it would be most unsafe to provoke the resent-
went of this body of Carbonari, by attempting to with-
stand their authority. But when Parliament repealed the
Combination Laws, it did so for the purpose of relieving
the industry of the Workmen from all unfair restraint, and
placing them and their employers upon the same level of
justice. It was never intended to empower the turbulent
workmen in every branch of trade to open their campaign
against the manufacturer under better auspices. If any of
them suppose—as the Sunderland seamen, the Clyde col-
Vas, and some others, appear to do—that it is permitted
,them to conspire against their employers, and to obtain
(their ends by force, the proper tribunals of the country
cannot too soon rectify their misconception. They have a
right to enforce their reasonable claims, and to abstain in-
dividually from work till such claims are conceded; but
they have no right to league themselves together, and to
set forth pretended grievances, as a pretext to justify a
system of coercion, to which their employers must submit,
at be exposed to the ruinous consequence of stopping their
works. No proceeding can be more iniquitous or more
Illegal than to force the orderly and well-disposed—as
these men arc doing—to desist from working, and to unite
with them in compassing the guilty object of their combi-
nation. Under the present law this is a penal offence, and
a rigorous example should be made of the factious ring-
leaders who offend against it. The simultaneous striking
for advance of wages throughout almost every branch of
manufacture, in England, in Scotland, and in Ireland, not
only serves to chow the alarming extent to which the com-
bination system has spread, but how perfectly it is orga-
nised for the purposes of secret and prompt communication.
The eliated societies and their delegates embrace the
whole manufacturing districts, and have the workmen
in every manufactory, more or less, under their command.
This will account for the insurrectionary movement among
the working classes discovering itself in so many trades
and so many places at once. We are at this moment in-
creasing in every resource which can make a country
powerful; but our prosperity, be its prospects what it may,
can never go on under a system of combination such u
this. A breach is made in the first principles of society.
Let the subject he fairly examined, and it will be found to
be no other than a conspiracy of labour against capital.
There never was a period when it was more important that
the public should be fully acquainted with the change that
is going on in the hitherto established order under which
,nduatry hiss been cherished and property secured. We
would fain call the attention of our countrymen to this
change. It has been long working under ground ; it is
wow rising everyday more conspicuously above the surface•
We do net mean to cast blame on the working classes ge-
nerally; far from it: we would, on the contrary, advocate
their interests to the utmost; but it must be their real in-
terests, and net those which the misguided among them
deceptively proclaim to be so. The spirit of fraternity
under which they have the means of causing their resolu-
tions to be adopted by all the working artisans of every de-
scription throughout the kingdom, is indeed a fearful
thing; it is a power most perilous in the exercise, and,
unless controlled by a very reflective and superior wisdom—
upon which no one can safely reckon—nothing but confu-
sion and ruin east be the result. Under a system so con-
structed delusion spreads like wildfire, and it spreads too
among a class of persons whose feelings are strong while
their judgment is not very sedate. Many among them
there are, tio doubt, of great shrewdness of mind, and of
very considerable and various information, capable of
reasoning with great clearness, and inclined, from prin-
ciple, to keep all their claims within the limits of rational
justice, and to pursue them with temper and discretion.
But these are rare qualities, and cannot be the portion of
the majority. Therefore it is that the present juncture is
full of danger to the great trading interests of the country.
If every rrorrictor of a factory is to be exposed to a turn

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out of all his workmen whenever it may please the dole"
gates of some great combination club to come down with V
decree to that effect, he will infalliby be driven to remove
his capital and machinery to a foreign kingdom, as has
already been done in many instances. Viewed as a system,
it goes beyond all calculation in its mischief to every branch
of the national industry. • That in many trades an advance
of wages may be rightfully called for we are well disposed
to believe, and in all such instances it ought to be conceded.
The working classes deedve at all times that their fair
claims should be met in the spirit of an enlightened bene-
volence. But in what we have here said it will be seen
that we look to the geent-confederacy which is everywhere
alive and in action—to its collective strength, backed by
its contributive funds--to- its compulsory influence—to the
number and activity of
.its missionaries—and to all the
means which it has of attaining its end, whether good or
bad. We look to the inevitable tendency of this combi-
nation system, thus organised, to extend itself to other
objects, and to embrace wider views. We have already
enough of this exemplar before us; more of it, perhaps,
than is quite safe. Every great end is now accomplished
by contributive aid and the union of numbers. We are
becoming by degrees a Nation of Federalists. The germ,:
we think, is in the ground. But we have done. Were we
to pursue this train of dtoeght our space would be much
sooner exhausted than our subject.
A police report, in our paper of yesterday, has excited
strong sensation in the puhlie mind. We allude to the case
of Mr. GAMBLE, who, hacausehe did not immediately obey
the order] of a watchman, to walk away from the spot on
which he was standing, *taken into custody, and confined
all night in the Covent-garden watchhouse. When this gen-
tleman was brought before the magistrates at Bow-street,
in the morning, be was treated, if the reports be correct

(and they all agree), with an excess of offensive rude-
ness and personal insult which, if this case had not oc-
curred, we could not have supposed it possible that
any person, whatever his rank or condition in life
might be, would have suffered in any Police-office in
London. As the charge on which Mr. Gast ISLE had been
confined was manifestly insufficient t. 4 warrant any pro-
ceedings against him, the Magistrates, in their anxiety to
protect the watchman, thought fit to institute an inquiry
into the character and means of subsistence possessed by
the defendant. To this inquiry, if properly conducted,
there could be no objection ; but the mode adopted on this
occasion seems to us imperatively to call for public animad-
version. A momentary reluctance having been naturally
shown by Mr. GAH3/1610 state his name,• under the cir-
cumstances
in whicla he stood, Sir RICHARD BIRNIE,
in the grave discharge of his magisterial duties, is
represented to have accosted him in these terms—" Pray,
Sir, are you a thief, or an honest man ?" When the li
defendant hail endeavettred to satisfy :he worthy ma- I
gistrate by stating that he lived with his father, and
was a stock-broker, Sir R. BIRNIE added, " Very well,
Sir, you must not cooZuct yourself impertinently here.'.
The Magistrates are then reported to have informed the
defendant that, " the watchman had full power to order
him to go on if he thought proper, and to take him into
custody if he did not olley. It was fir that purpose they
were stationed in the streets." The young gentleman was fur-
ther informed that " the watchman had dealt ve7y lenient-
ly with him." There must surely be some mistake in this
exposition of the law by the Magistrates of Bow-street.
It never can have beets stated that watchmen were sta-
tioned in the streets for the express purpose of ordering
persons to move ou at their will and pleasure, and to take
• them into custody if they do not immediately obey.
When Mr. Mixsuur.r. was disposed to allow the defendant
to go at large vri Ms own recognizance, Sir R.l
. Brame again interfered to annoy and distress him, by
declaring that he had `f strong reasons to doubt that the
defendant was a stockbroker," as he represented himself.
Mr. GAMBLE, in reply to this attack, threw his card some-
what unceremoniously on the table, and by way of punish-
ment for this contempt of Court, he was ordered to be
locked up till he procured bail, and -he was locked up
accordingly. Now we must be permitted to remark, at
the expense of offending against the dignity of the Magis-
trates of Bow-street, that we know of no reason for ex-
empting them from the observance of the ordinary rules of
civility towards the persona who may happen to be brought
before them. Sir R. BIRNIE persisted in treating this
young gentleman as a vagabond and an imposter; and
at last, finding that for once he had put the saddle or. the
wrong horse, he coolly gives directions, by way of amending
his mistake, that the party offended should be locked up
till his bail arrived al the office. Our respect for the
administration of justice in every department leads us to
. hope that this will be the last exhibition of its kind; and
we notice it in the hope that we may, in some degree, be
the means of preventing any similar occurrence for the
future.

CITY, THEASDAY EVENING.

The quotation of the new French Threes on the Paris
Stock Exchange came over this morning as low as 71f. 40c.,
but that circumstance did not tend to depress Consols,
which supported yesterday's slight advance. For the Oc-
tober account there were buyers for a short time at 90i,
but the price principally was For money they opened
at tail, and closed at 90 89i, and for this account the bar-
gains were done at 90 89i. The depressed price of the
new French scheme having no efrect upon our Stocks, pro-
bably arose from the disinclination of persons to change
English Stock for this new financial measure, after the
difficulties it has brought upon its projector, which may
ultimately lead to an abandonment of it altogether. The
near approach of the settling day has a tendency to narrow
business, which has also had the effect of keeping prices
.from fluctuating. Exchequer Bills were as low as I9s. to
40s.

Business in the Foreign money market for the most part
was all centered in Greek Scrip, which at the conclusion of
the day declined from the latter quotations of yesterday.
It opened at 11 114, and between that price and 124 12 it
fluctuated almost all day. The operations of the Bulls and
Bears were in full vigour in the latter part of the day, and
the last so far succeeded as to cause a decline from yester-
day's improvement. The report of Lord Cochrane's de-
parture for the scene of action gains ground, and the best
friends of the Greek cause speak confidently of its success.
However, the market left oft' rather heavy at NH ; but
that circumstance, we think, was to be entirely attributed
to the cause that we have assigned above. The Bonds
were at 41 2. The new Spanish Bonds were at yesterday's
quotation, but those of 1821 were a shade worse, being at
22)14. South American Securities were without alteration.-
Transactions in the Sham market were limited, and al-
most entirely at yesterdayis-quotations.
We have no variation to notice as to the state of the
Mincing-lane market.

From Gibraltar the letters arc to the following effect,
under date the 21th July :—" The licenses for the intro-
duction of cotton goods are signed. Duties, amounting in
all to about 36 per cent. on the tariff of 1814 ; but the par-
ties interested in them arc not agreed among themselves as
to the mode of introduction. Some proposing to sell the
rrivilege, and others to become the sole importers. Co.ombian cruisers are daily perceived from our garrison—
yesterdsy three of diem woe distinctly seen in the offing."

•
FA.61110-1r)1BLE IYtELLICE.VCE.
The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury arrived in town yester-
day, from Herts.
The Marquis of Carmarthen has left tOwn fur his father's, the
'Duke of Leed's seat, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
r- •The Marquis of Lanadown arrived in town yesterday evening,
from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
• Lord Suffield has left town for his seat in Norfolk.
The Duke and Duchess San Fernando have left town for the
Continent.
Arrivals at the Irate,loo Hotel, Jermyn.street :—Dr. and Mn.
Litt'eludes and family from their scat in Herta ; Mrs. Simpson
from Bath.
Departures from the Burlington Hotel :—The Eatl and Countess
of Ormonde and family yesterday, for Ireland; Mr. and Mrs.
Parry fur the Continent; and Captain Rose, R. N. for Ports-
mouth.
Tho Marquis and Marchioness de Praslin arrived yesterday at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent.
The Duke of Buccleugh left diuo on a tour.
Mr. and Mrs. Neal arrived yesterday at Gordon's Hotel, Alba-
from their seat in Berks. Captain and Mrs. Van-
for Ilerks.

smart left di

I Departures from the British Hotel :—Captain and Mrs. Mason,
for their seat in Ilants ; J. Reeves, Esq. for Paris; and Mr. and
Mrs. Tatham, for Cheltenham.

His Royal Highness the Duke of York passed through
this town on Sunday last on his way to Baslow, to join the
Dukes'of Rutland, Devonshire, and Richmond on a shoot-
Mg excursion on the moors in that neighbourhood. In
;fonsequence of orders having been received at the King's I
Head Hotel the preceding evening, to have a relay of;
horses by ten o'clock on the following morning, his Royal
Highness's intended arrival became generally known, and
a great concourse of people assembled to pay him every
mark of respect. His Royal Highness did not arrive till 1
nearly one. He looked remarkably well, and after the few
minutes occupied in changing horses (during which he
evinced the most condescending manners) he proceeded on'
his journey amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the populace.
—Derby Meech rg.
The Duke of Wellington, his son, and suite, arrived at
Paris or. Tuesday. They alighted at Meurice's hotel.
We are happy is being able to state that Mr. ffeeritary
Canning is quite recovered from his late illness, and that
the Right Hon. Gentleman never was in the enjoyment of
better health,
Extract of a letter from Lancaster, August 13 :—" Yes-
terday,
on passing the beautiful Lake of Windermere, we
met Mr. Canning, who has just arrived here on a visit to
Colonel Bolton, of Liverpool. We hope the fine air and
beautiful scenery of this part of the country may enable
the Right Hon. Gentleman to resume his official duties,
with all that advantage and honour to his country which
they have conferred upon it since his last dignified and be-
coming elevation to office. The Right Hon. Gentleman
looked pale, but by no means in any thing like a declining
state of health. He is accompanied by Mrs. Canning, Mr.
Ellis, and his Secretary, Mr. Harvey. Such Gentlemen of
the Bar as were at the Lake on Sunday were invited to the
elegant and hospitable mansion of Colonel Bolton, to meet
Mr. Canning. The rain has been excessive in this neigh-
bourhood for the last few days, hut the weather now begins
to wear a brighter aepect, and the harvest seems to be
rapidly getting in."
The King of Sardinia has ordered a magnificent stone
bridge, of one single arch, to be built over the Dora, by the
gates of Turin.
His Holiness Leo XI I, wishing to give a signal proof of
his regard for the family of M. Clermont-Tonnerre, who has
rendered great services to the Holy See, created, on his ele-
vation to the Papal Chair, M. Lieutenant-General Cler-
mont Tonnerre a Roman Prince. His Majesty, by an or-
dinance of July t 27, has authorised him to hear that title,
and transmit it to his descendants without prejudice to their
rights as Frenchmen.—Etoile.
Prince Ruffo, who acted so conspicuous a part in the
affairs of Naples during the wars of the French revolu-
tion, died lately at Vienna, to which Court he was Am-
bassador from the King of the Two Sicilies.
Baron Langsrlorfr, late Russian Consul-General in Bra-
zil, has, since his return to Germany in April last, been em-
ployed in preparing for the press an account of a journey
into the interior of Brazil, which he undertook by order of
the Emperor Alexander.
Richard Rush, Esq. late Minister at the Court of St.
James, arrived in his native city (Philadelphia) on Friday
last, after an absence of nearly eight years. A public
dinner was to be given him at the Mansion-house hotel on
Monday. General Lafayette was to be invited as asuest
by the Committee of Arrangement.—Ph dark/ phia Paper.
Signor Irisarri, late Minister from Chili to this coun-
try, has instituted proceedings for libel against the Morn-
ing Paper which lately attacked him so grossly.
Letters from 'foricilla, dated the Ist of August, state
that " Some disputcs have taken place between the people
and the soldiers at Bilboa, and that in consequence the sol-
diers had hceo ordered to march."

Letters from Lima, dated the 22d of April, state that
Callao had not surrendered at that date.

The letters from Zante, by the French mail yesterday,
mention a report of an engagement at sea, in which the
Greeks had the advantage. The letters from Trieste
are silent as to the campaign in the Mores.
The accounts from Jamaica, received yesterday, are to
the 2d July. There is mipolitical news. The packet for
England was to sail on the 12th July; some accounts men-
tion the 19th.

A Flanders Paper states, that the plan of cutting a
canal at Brussels, to be navigated by merchantmen of
between 400 and 500 tons burden, or even by frigates
fully rigged and armed, is prosecuting with great activity.
According to accounts in a German paper from Heid-
elberg, famous for its Tun, from the state of this year's
vintage, wine may be expected to be both good and abun-
dant.

The example set by the city of Liege has just been
followed by that of Molines, where subscriptions for the
Greeks hsve been opened in all the public societies, and at
all the booksellers.

An accident, which might have been followed by serious
consequences, took place at the Royal Polytechnic School
on the evening of the 15th inst. Twenty-four students,
and one of the officers on duty, experienced at the same
moment violent cholic, attended with every effect usually
produced by cholera morbus. The attention which their
state demanded having been paid by the physicians of the
establishment, all the patients recovered. On examining
carefully the circumstances connected with this incident,
its origin was traced to the food which they had consumed
at breakfast, coaeisting of cold meats, jelly, &c. (chorea-
terie), and which had as usual been furnished by the
charcutier of the school. The contents 'being analysed,
the presence of copper was detected.—Etoge of' Wednesday.
MExico, MAY 9.—At day-light this morning the Na-
tional Bull-fight Place was discovered to be on fire, and
the flames made such rapid progress that the police were
unable to take any measures for arresting their progresi
before th e whole was reduced to ashes.—This was one of
the very few buildings in the whole city of Mexico suscep-
tible of being destroyed by fire, nearly all of them being
constructed of volcanic stone, with tile or brick floor, and
with very little wood about them. The Bull-fight Picez
was a large amphitheatre built of wood, fastened together
by ligaments of raw hide, having four or five tier of boxes,
capable of containing, it is said, at least 14,000 spectatots.
A melancholy occurrence took place on the Bth inst. at
Mayence. A Hessian gendarme attempted to stop a ci-
tizen, whom he suspected of having contraband goods; on
which the latter was so
.incensed that he gave the gen-
darme a severe blow with his fist and ran off. The gen-
darme upon this fired at the fugitive hut missed him, and
wounded a child belonging to a Prussian soldier, who now
also interfered. The consequence of all this was, that the
citizens, who had by this time collected in considerable
numbers, at length carne to blows with the gensdarmcs
and custom-house officers, and blood was spilt on both
sides, so that at the end it became necessary to call the
Austrian and Prussian troops forming the garrison under
arena, in order to rescue the Hessian soldiers and custom-
house officers from the fury of the people, in which they
with difficulty succeeded.--Ge ratan Paper.
PIT.CHARD FISIIERY.—Extract of a letter from Fal-
mouth, August 16:—" We had hoped that we should by
this time have it in our power to announce to our friends
some success in the pilchard fishery, but we regret to say
that the fish have not yet approached the shore, so as to
allow the scans to make enclosures. The drift nets along
our coast have becn almost daily taking pilchards, and
about Soo hogsheads have been caught in this way, which
will be ready for shipment in about a month's time. Some
bodies of pilchards have lately been discovered on this
coast, and we trust we shall soon be able to report favour-
ably on the success pf the fishermen."