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ENGLISII OPERA HOUSE.
This Evening, TCEIOAV, August 23. will be performed (for the
dui time In this emmtry). a Grand Opera. called
TARR,CRE. THE TARTAR CHILE.
Tee Principal Characters by Messrs. 11. Phillips. J. 0. Atkins. Per
kkisa. graham. Denman, TIMM!, and J. Bland; Mieses Paton, Uuw•
sett, and Roden; and Miss Harvilta.n.
After which,
DP.I.LEt; M ITHOUT BE aVX
, TIIE LADIES AMONG THF.MSELVEi.
Ws. Dashington, Mies K.
To conclude witn THE RIVAL iiOI.DISRS.
Nipperkin, sr. W. Chapm►n.
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THE ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. WILL CLOSE NEXT
WEEK.
UNDER THE rspccin PATRONAGE OP HIS MAJESTY.
ROFAL GARDENS. VAUXHALL.
Tr) MORROW EVENING, NEDNESDAY, August 24 the Gardens
"Vol be open with a succession of varied Amusements. from Eight
treloek !ill Twelve, Including the NEW BALLI I, the WONIIEREL'L
a:VOLUTIONS of the celebrated ROPE DANCER lMr. WILLSON),
ar. To conclude with a niagniAcent display of FIRE-WORKS,
xut VfONDROLS ASCENT by the YOUNG AMARICAN, which will
,-suns a evantietunice of the universal acclamation and delight with
which they are nightly honoured.
Doors open at Sevni uTlock.—Admisaleu 3a. dd.

BIITIIIN PIES;

.need publishing yesterJey morning
sr five o'clock.

tONDON, TUESDAY, ALGLaT Y 3, 1525.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived yesterday. The
Trench Rentes are slowly recovering from their late de-
pression. The Three per Cents. closed on Saturday even-
• ing at 7gf. 60c.
The news from Greece is still uncertain and contradic-
tory. A letter from Corfu, dated the 40th ult., mentions
the arrival of a British cutter from Napoli di Romania,
with news which is said to confirm the statement of IBRA•
. HIM PACIIA having been taken prisoner by the Greeks.
On the other hand, reports were circulated of successes
gained by the Turks.
The correspondence from Spain draws much the same
picture of that ill-fated country. The Government, feeble
and distracted, and factions rising insolently to domineer
over the Royal authority.
The Ft )ile quotes, from the Memorial Bordeluir, a let-
t.r dated Madrid, August 8, in which it is stated that ne-
gotiations for a loan have been opened with some English-
znar in that capital. The latter, however, does not offer
rnmcy, but proposes to procure Austrian ships of war now
iyirg at Trieste, for the purpose of protecting the Spanish
ports from what they call " the Colombian and other pi-
rates." Front this statement it is of course impossible to
g..ess *bat has really taken place, if indeed there have been
ary proceedings at all lately with respect to the supply of
the Spanish Court with money.
The non-official part of the Monitcur, under the head
of Royal Court of Paris, contains the application of the:
Attorney-General to the President of the Royal Court,'
displaying at great length the insidious tendency of
various articles in the Corastitotionnel and Courrier Fran-
c-ow, and calling on the President to assign the responsible
editors of these journals to appear at the day and hour
which the President :Atoll think fit to bear, that on account
Vibe spirit of their journals, resulting front a series of ar-
ticles tending to violate the respect due to the religion of
the states, the said journals are suspended, viz. the Con-
titue,otmel for one month, and the Courtier fur three
months, this not being the first offence.
The Reparitoire en iendance fills five columns of the
small print of the Moniltur.
[From tfie Etoik dated Sunday.]
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. .
letters from Port.su.Prince, of the Bth July, received at Havre,
contain the following details t.,..." On the bd July, in the after.
f boon, a French division, composed dine frigate Circe, the brig
ltlae, and the schooner Bearuaisa, anchored in the road of Pert-
,
st,-Prince. The comniandar.t. Baron de blacken, went on shore
• / on the morning of the 4th instant ; be was well received by all the
ir .\
a.rtliorities. The negotiations relative to the independence cum.
meowed on the sante day, and were floished at ten o'clock the same
,evening. The ordinance of the King was promulgated on the
morning of the Bth. The President and the Baron Mackau cm-
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r braced each other, and the populace filled the air with cries of
•• Vire Hayti I Vire la France! Vire le Roi! Vire rinds.
peradence !" _

[ Front the MoniVur of Saturday. I
olLcial part =tuna a royal ordinance, suppressing the
, odic? of latandant of- the Wardrobe, whose functions ire assigned
to tee Minister of the Household.

I Noa•officisl Part 1
(?11VATE CORRESPONDENCE.)

Al womb, A uo. 11.
The plan of vedveing the sala•ies of the public officers, which has
been so Long spoken of, iN now beginning to be carried into eflixt
by die diminution oldie salaries of our diplomatic agents in foreign
raurts. The legatior at Paris alone has been reduced:ll,MA franca.
It IS affirmed that the Ciovernment intends to have the Trappist
br•nplrt SP the prison at blailtid, and to have him tried by the
curt tribunals ; this seems probable, as this monk having been
wily a lay-brother, and being arrested as a disturber of public
trail+, May, he say, without any inconvenience, be placed at the
11,1,41 of the civil authority, Lai withdrawn from the @celestas-
ti al piriadiction.

Ceastitationnei and the Courrier, was.not able, as the vacations ars
so near at hand, to grant pernalealea. to suroakin the editors till
after the, vacation, that is in the month of November.
We must suppose that it is on false itifortnatbsti that it has ►een
announced that on the 25th June the yellow kiwi was raging to a
great extent at Guadeloupe, for the bills of health given in that
colony the I.Gth June and Ist July, to vessels which have lately ar-
rived at Havre, state that the disorder is daily diminishing in vitt.
hence.

ritiNCH FITNIIII.—.PAIIIS, Avo. 20.—Fiv• per Got& 102.1.
45c.; closed st 1021. Ilk. ; Three per Cent*. opined at W. 'Sc. ;
closed et 721. We.; Bank Stock, 218 a : Rent* ile =Certif.
Faleonnet, 1101.14 c.: Bente d'Lapairne,ll7jr.; Rept Loin,
S.l. Exchange on London: one month, 261. three neadei 14 ak-
-( 'ours Authentiva.

The combinations of the Journeymen in she different
trades seem, we regret to say it, rather upon sb. increase
than the decline, and the Masters, on dad, pert; seem
equally disposed to hold out against the adralate of wages
demanded. Unfortunately there is no criterion by which
the claims of justice can be measured on either side. We,
observe that in their general meetings, and in those
speeches which are intended to influence the opinions of
the public, not only are facts, which remain to be proved,
taken for granted: but first principles are appealed to in
language so very desultory and indefinite, this for any
practical purpose the inferences drawn from them are
worth nothing. We will give an example of this, that
what we here except against may be explicitly under-
stood. At the General Meeting of the "Society sf CAR..
PRNTEMS and JoixEns," held last week, a considerable
increase of the rate of the Members' subscriptions was
unanimously agreed to. After which a letter front " The
BnhieronD WOOLCOMBEELS and STUFFWEAVERS Asso-
CIATION" was read, when it was resolved,
" That a contribution be made from the funds of this society of
the sum of 3W. in aid of the fund, of the said association, as a
testimony of our brotherly affection and fellow-feeling for a Large,
meritorious, and industrious portion of our brother seechanics and
our admiration of their manly Emit:less, peaceable and orderly de-

tneanour, and unshaken constancy and persevetance, under the
severest privations, in their laudable endeavours to obtain their'
just and indisputable right,—.4 price fur their tabour adequate to
the maintenance of themselacs and their fainilies."
We have here a proposition laid down as one of those first
principles which all must admit, viz.:—" that it is the just
and indisputable right of all workmen to obtain a price for
their labour adequate to the maintenance of themselves and
their families." At first sight, this would appear to be a prin-
ciple lying at the very foundation of justice and humanity.
It seems so very reasonable in itself, that any one becomes
suspected of having a natural turn for oppression that
ventures to cast a doubt upon it. For ourselves we feel no
wish to prove it false; but we shall make no apology for
examining—and we do it, and with the very best intention
towards the working classes—whether it be true. It is a
position which enters so often and so essentially into every
question of justice or injustice in the discussions between
the combined workmen and their employers, that it ought
no longer to be assumed; it must be brought to the proof.
In the first place let us clearly understand what is
meant by a right. Every notion of a right includes that of
a just liar to something which we possess, or ajust claim
to something that is unlawfukti withheld. But in neither
sense can this be applied to the price of labour. It is no
doubt afflicting to humanity that the condition of any par-
ticular trade or manufacture should be such as not to afford
a rate of wages sufficient to enable the workmen employed
to maintain themselves and their families. But it must be
obvious to every man capable of reflecting, that such a
claim as this can never be established on the ground of,
indisputable right; and it is a fatal error so to consider it.
That it should prevail an universally among the working,
classes, and should be inculcated as a truth incontrovertible,
can only be owing to its not having been examined at the
outset ; it is quite time that it should be submitted to a
detailed investigation.
In the first place, if it were true that every one
had " an indisputable right to a price for their labour
adequate to the maintenance of themselves aad theirfami-
lies," it would follow of course, that they may /anfully en-
force this SIGHT. What would be the consequence ? A
manufacturer must pay his men, not according to the
value of their labour to HIM, but according to the number
of children which each workman had to maintain. Five and
twenty shillings a week, for example, might be adequate to
the maintenance of a workman unmarried ; but the price
of his labour must be increased if he bad a wife and chil-
dren to maintain, it must be higher still to enable him to
maintain a wife and several children. But while the
families of the workmen are multiplying, the state of the
markets and the profit of the manufacturer remain the saute;
it may be that they may even decline. Where then are the
funds to come from to meet this increased demand ? Will
any ore insist that the manufacturer, whether his t etus n of
profit will afford it or nut, must give to all his workmen
such a price for their labour as is adequate to the maintenance
thus insisted That whatever becomes of himself and his own
family the price of their labour is founded on indisputable
right, and that, therefore, on the Saturday night, the adequate
ram must be counted down ! The consequences of such a
doctrine only require to be plainly stated, :n convince every
rational mind that it is too preposterous to be maintained
even fur a moment. There is an important distinction
between the necessaries of life, and the necessaries of a
man's condition in 'f/,•. What should we think were the
Master Manufacturers of every description to allege their
eight to such a profit upon their capital as would be ade-
quate to the support of their own station in society, and to
the suitable maintenance and ethi,eation of their families,
What would the Combination Societies say to such a
doctrine as this? And yet, so far as the question of right'
concerned, why is it not as valid and reasonable on the!
one side as on the other?

We have
.been induced to say thus much from a know-
ledge ortiligreaCinterests which are at stake. Most
earnestly do we wish that every workman could at all
times get the necessaries and comforts of life for the fruits'
of his labour. In the present prosperous state of our ins-!
nufactures we believe this is pretty generally the case. In
all our fabrics that find a ready market the industry cm-
ployed.upon them is well paid. In truth, our national
manufactures can only be said to flourish when they sup-
port the working classes in decent competence. But the
growth of knowledge seems, if we mistake not, to be
bringing us every day nearer to that condition of society to
which all civilization seems to tend, on which the multi-1
bide become impatient of labour, and irritable under re-'
strain'. But this state of things, in its turn, will pass
away. We are born, all of us, into a system in which
we.must make the heat of things as we find them, and
las we grow wiser we shall gradually fall into the regular
pursuit of our own interests, without—as we are at present
inclined to do—quarrelling with whet we cannot alter, and
combining to combat with evils which in their very nature
admit only of .compromise.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
II -alters in the Consols Matket-were, for the most part,
making up their accounts for the Roth, and conse-
quently the business in it was .very trifling. For money,
the price was the same, 89jI, and
settling-day 9011.
market the business was unimportant

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Alto Marine 24 6
strut LLLLL eve.
Aten-iluican Woe ... 23 6 $ 4
inettat Iron Compaq
i asziew lOO 211 2e 4 dis
Ilritiatt Reek Salt II Ili II
Col embian Airiest. Carnpluky 100 6
gloat We:ammeter 26 6 I I die
Imperial Plate Masa .
lesad.Goici and naves ljenaing 210 6 6
Loser Rhine Stearn Nay lllO I 4
Netherland Patent Salt l4 2i 4i 61 1 4,1 1
Pawl he (Yellow) SI 2 13
Provtatial Bask of 'NUM
Srittolt Vrego•
• HAYMARKET THEATRE.
This Evening. TUESDAY, August 23. still be performed
JOHN or,. • DAY'S PLEASURE.
37hn 51121b1. Yr. t 7, Perren. Jenny Jingle, Mrs, Humby.
After vrbirh,
QVITE CORRECT."
The Pri=baraellera by Messrs. Vining. Raymond, and Liston ;
Clove,. Davison. P. Clover. and K. Clifford.
To conehtde with MIDAS.

(From the Jormei de Peres of Sourdoy.l quently the business in it was .very trifling.
Pants, AUGUST It end the next account, the price was the same
The feat Preodeot of the Royal Came. AL biro's. to whom for the October settling-day 9011.
We Attorce7-4heneral boo addeosesd Ala application against um In the foreign market the business was 4