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London, England, 1826-05-13 00:00:00

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COVENT- GARDEN THEATRE.
WHITSUNAME.
GRAND PERFORMANCE OP ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC,
This Evening, SATURDAY, May 18,
Under the Management of Sir George Smart.
Pt RT Selection from Der Frelschutz, under the direction of the
Composer, Carl Maria Von Weber.
PAnT lI.—A Selection from Handel's Serenata, Ads and Galatea.
Pail. 111.—A Grand Mi.cellatteons Act.
Principal Vocal Performers.—Messrs. Witham, Horncastle, Phillips,
Robinson, and Tinney ; Masters Barker and Lonshurst i lilts.iss H.
Caws*, Farrar, Paton, and Stephens! and Madame Vestris.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
MR. MATHF.WS AT HOME
This Evening, SATURDAY, May 13, with an enti •ely new Entertainment,
in Two Part% founded on Ids Observations on Character',
Manners, and Peculiarities. entitled
MR. MATHEWS' INVITATIONS.
PAST 111.—A Monopolylogue, to be called
THE CITY BARGE !
Seven Characters by Mr. Mathews.
Doors open at HaMpast Seven (Instead of Seven, as hereto/ore); the
Performance begins at Eight precisely.

•y The Lottery now onialgls the Last that will ever he allowed In this
Kingdom. The price of 'rickets and Shares will rise In a few days.
There are Six of AWOL All to be Drawn In One Day.

The BRITISU PRESS commenced publishing yesterday morning
at a quarter past seven o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1526.

The French Papers of Wednesday, and the Elnile of
Thursday, have been received. They are completely filled
with the debate on the Law of Substitutions. The reports
about Greece are repeated, without any additional circum-
stances either worthy of credit or worthy of translation.

Frttexcit Fturtts.—ExcrtawnE ON PARIS.—Five per Cents.
96f. 53c. • Three per Cents. 64. f. 30c. ; Bank Shares 2010 f. ; Nea..
politan Renter, 73f. 115 e.

It is lamentable to observe the incessant endeavours
which are making to irritate the working classes against
the agriculturists, and to excite them to raise an outcry
against the land-owners, as if their distresi at this juncture
was produced by a combination among landlords, so to keep
up the price of subsistence, as to place it utterly beyond
the reach of the ordinary wages of labour. We have our-
selves no interests to promote but those of truth and tran-
quillity ; and amid the ferment of extremes, it is our en-
deavour at all times to preserve the centre point. The
questions regarding the Corn Laws have divided the
opinions of the ablest politicians, both in Parliament •
and nut of it. Stripped of all firebrand epithets, and
of all party heat, there appears to be nothing in the
subject which men of common sense may not approach,
without finding in it anything really perplexing.
It is desirable that the price of bread should be such that
the working classes, by their wages, may be enabled to
purchase it. Does any one dispute this? Not one. Let
US then ask, must not the growers of corn themselves de-
sire that it should find consumers, as much as the manu-
facturers nmst wish to find customers for their goods?
Surely they must ; and if so, where is the agricultural
community to find customers but in the manufiwturing
chisycs? And bow—if we reflect at all—can we bring our-
selves to believe that those who grow the article which is to
make bread, should wilfully combine to nice it to a price
ut which the bulk of the nation cannot afford to purchase
i it ? Can we rationally supposa any set of men so ntterl

insensible to their own interest? Is there any one com-
modity within the whole circle of commerce, in which the
dealers, who are to sell, do not regulate the price by the
means of the consent-1-s who are to tuy ? Can the cern
trade be conducted on the reverse priDeiple of every other
trade, or can those who traffic in wheat, and barley, and
oats, profit by a system which would be ruinous, if tht y
dealt in cloths or pepper, indigo, or any other trerchandire ?
In articles of taste or luxury, indeed, a few monopolists
may fix the price acecrding to the estimate they may form
of the wealth or vanity of that class in which alone they
look for purchasers: in a very limited market of rich corn-
, p .titors an extortionate price may be obtained. But to im:
gine that is an article of national consumption, such as
corn, the bulk of which—if sold at all—must be sold to the
great mass of the population who live by their labour—we
say, to imagine that the class of cultivabrs who raise it to
sell, will combine to advance it to a price at which it can-
not be toughl, and conspire to keep it at that price, is not
to suppose them selfish, but insane; yet that they do this
act is assumed by those who charge the Agriculturists with
keeping up the ratans of subsistence to a price which
starves the manufacturing districts, ;and puts it out of the
power of the industrious classes of the community to live
by the earnings of their labour.
The interests of the grower of corn and the consumer.
when well understood, ought never to be at variance; and
they arc the real enemies of twit c ass.ra who would attempt
to separate them. Their interest; are mutual. They are
essentially d-stined t.t uphold each other's strength, and to
supply each other's wants. In vain would the mechanic
toil and spin, if the farmer did not multiply the bounties eC
Providence, by devoting his labour to tl e soil. And elm..
der, indeed, would be the in- ducement for the farmer to
spend hi; strength over the plough, if he could not barter
its produce with the me- chanic and the manufacturer.
All brnitches of industry are interwoven ; and the pursuits
of each are diree•eil to the common benefit cf all.

That the maniCacturing classes hay.l suffered, and arc
suffering greatly, is most true. But while we deplore
dick distressed condition, we will not concur in tnisleading
them as to its origin. It is not by malfng wet' against the
masa of cultivators, or against the power of machinery,
that they call remove it. They are wofully deceived
when they are taught to trace their distress to the Corn
Laws. The more rational and reflective among them are
well persuaded of this; hut unfortunately the reasonable
and reflective do not form the majority either of the
class to which they belong, or, in truth, of any other
class in the community. But we hope the reviving spirit of
commerce will soon _afford employment, subsistence, awl
comfort to the manufacturing population, and they will
then find that it was not the price of the necessaries of
life that was the cause of their distress, but the want of a
price for (ha; labour which thy were to give in exchange
for them.

CLTV, FRIDAY ATTER/MY,

Though in the early part of the morning the Consols Market ex,
hibited signs of improvement, opening as they did at 791, anti
being soon done at 78i for the account, it became in a short time
somewhat agitated, and Consols for the account fell to 7143. This
was attributed to a rumour acquiring currency that a very large
quantity of money stock had come into the market. At two o'clock,
however, they wire quoted at 78,12. At the close tf the market
they left t ff at 78i.
The set:cunt' reported to have been received from India, by way
of S. He'ens, with h we subjoin, seemed to affect India Stock►
inasmuch as it will be seen that those reports repeat the p:evioue
rumours of the Mellish being on her way to Enclind, with the
oflieial news of pence having been concluded with the Butmete.
This had consequently an effect on Rut India Stock, which tees
to 231, the previous price being 228.
In other English securities, such as Exchequer Bills, &c,
there was no change worthy of notice.
The Foreign Marten was steady, but with little business doing;
and in Shares there were few and trilling purchases made, with
little variation in prices.
The folowing statement was reported in the City to have been
officially communicated to the different Members of Iris 3lajestyll
Government:—

.....
" Mr. RANTS, the Purser of the Vansittarr.srrived at the India
House this ramvOng. He reports that, on the morning of the day
on which the Vansittatt left St. Helena—Nt.t. the 15th M arch—
the ship Mellish, Captain Cole, arrived a St Helena from Madras,
with Gen. BOWSER on board, with despatches for the Company ;
that he heard Captain COLE state that peace had been con-
cluded with the Burmese, and that the conditions of thg
peace were, the cession of three provinces and the payment
of one crore of rupees to the Company. He further re-
ported that General Bowser did not land, and that the Mellish was
to sail for England in the evening of the day on which she reached
St. Helena."

Notwithstanding the decision last evening in the House of Lords.
:here was little effect produced in the Corn Market this day, the
.scalers having anticipated the result. There appeared great fitm-
nes% in the market, a gradual of improvement from the late ins
activity. IVhcat was sold on rather better terms, and Oats were
Is. per quarter dearer.

PARTIES.
The Marchioness of Lansdown gave a most splendid rout on Thursday
evening, at Latt.down House, Berkeley-square. The drawing-rooms,
grand statue gallery, and library, were most brilliantly illuminated. The
company began to arrive about JO o'clock, and continued till one. There
were present nearly 1,000 persons of the pant ton ; among whom were—
kit: Royal Highness Prince Leopold, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Somerset, the Duke of Grafton
and the Ladies Fitzroy, the Prussian Minister, the Marquis and Mar.
chioness of Iluntly, the Marquis and Marchioness Cornwallis, Emliy
Marchioness of Londonderry, the Countess of Clare, the Countess of
Derby and Miss Stanley, the Countess of Albemarle, Countess Lieven, the
Ladies Montague, the Ladies Fitzpatrick, Lord F. G. Osborne, Lady G.
Keppel, the Countess of Cork and the Ladles Boyle, Lady Davy, Lord
Harvey, Lady Elizabeth and Miss Baker, the Earl and Countess CassLis
and Lady M. Kennedy, Lord J. Thymic., Lady Sheffield, the Countess Vs-
rulam, Sir Alexander, Lady, and Miss Johnston, Lady and Miss King.
Lady Ann Coke, Sir George Beaumont, Sir J., Lady, and Miss Wrottesley,
Sir Stamford and Lady Raffles, Colonel and Miss Doyle, Colonel, Mrs.,
and Miss Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Vanzittart, Mrs. and Miss Beaumont,
Major Moberly, Mr., Mrs., and Bliss Childers, NIA Vernon, 1411 gs FOS,
Mrs. Walter Jones, Mr. and Mn,. Vernon Smith, Mr. Talbot. Etc. hr.

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The Dowager Marchioness of Exeter entertained a large party at dinner
yesterday, at her house in Privy-gardens.
Countess Grosvenor entertained a large party of the hunt ton yesterday
evening, at her !untie In Grosvenor-street.
The Earl of Sefton entertained a distinguished party et dinner on
Thursday, at his house in Arlington-sweet, among whom were—The Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Worcester, the Earl of Glengall, Lord Alvanlei.
Count de Lavengtigon, Mr. George Anson, Mr. De RU" Ac.
Sir Charles Long, Bart. entertained another distinguished party at din-
ner on Thursday, at his house in Privy-gardens.
The Hon. Mrs. Pelham has Gsued cards of Invitation for a grand con-
cert on the lath or June, at her hou c In Connannht place.
The following distinguished personages had dinner parties yesterday -.-
Sir Robert Preston, Cert. Downing street; Hun. Keith Douglas, Admi-
ralty 1 Henry Peters, Esq. Park-lane.

MOVEMENTB.
The Duke of Leeds left twit yesterday, for Yorkshire.
The Duke of Richmond arrived yesterday, at his house In Upper Brook-
street, from his seat, Goodwood, Sussex.
The Earl and Counters cf Sefton ami the Ladles Molyneus, left town
yesterday, for their seat, Stoke Earin, Berks.
Lord Yarborough left town yesterday, for the isle of Wight.
Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, ht. Jome,'s.strect :—S. Janet, Esq.
from Oxford; the Rev. Mr. Austin, from his seat In Kent. Departures
—Lord De la Zouche, for his seat In Sussex ; Lane, Esq. for his meat
in Herts ; and Mr. and Ides. Welch, for their seat In Worcestershire.
Arrivals at Batt's family hctel, Dover.,treet :—The Marquis and Mar.
dilemma of Blandfurd and family, from Norfolk ; Mrs. Jernlntrham and
family. Departures :—Colonel and Mrs. Henderson, for Blackheath ; Sir
Charles Brooke Vere, Dart. iMr. and Mrs. Heywood, fur Warwick.

Arrivals at the Bath Hotel. Arlington-street:—Mr. and Mrs. Yarning,
from Bath ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Warodun. from Pails; Mrs. sad Mi.s
Tarletun, from Herts. Departures :—Mr. and aim Fyache Harrison,
for their seat, Copford Hall, Colchester.
Arrivals at Berner'. Hotel, Derners-street t—Mrs. Porehin and Mita
Norman, from Leicester ; Buchanan, Esq. Departures :—William
Karrstorne. Esq. for Green Bank, Preston ; Dr, Chichester, for Cheitto.
barn ; Colonel Edward and Mee. Fitzgerald and family, fur Reading ; Mr.
and Mrs. Berney, for Norfolk.
Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets
The Rev. William Sergison, from Cocktield Park, Sussex ; Willlem Set'.
gluon; Esq. from ditto ; Lientenant Oakes, R.N. from Suffolk ; Coe.-
velt, Esti. from a tour. Departures :—Sir Edward Kynaston and the
Misses Isynaston, for Hardwick Hall, Shropshire ; Mr. anti Mrs. Davis*
and Mrs. Crummer, for Herefordshire,

Arrivals at Fl to Hotel, Oxford-street:—Admiral Markham. M.P.
and family, from so..ex ; James N. P. Cosserat, F.str. and Mrs. Cosseraf.
from Devon ; Richard Eaton. Esq., Mn. Eaton, anti Miss Lane, from a
tour; Benjamin Way, Esq. and Ilisa Way, from Uxbridge ; the Rev. T.;
Mn. and Miss KWh*, from Hastings ; Hawkins. Eq. from a tour
A. 11. Bradshaw. E-q. from Kent; —Cramer, Krq. from Kasen: 6.
Wilmot, E-q. from a tour. Departures:—P. T. Gardner, Esq. and Mt*.
Oardner, for Hants; H. W. Wilson, Esq. and Mrs. Wilson, for Lila
ham ; Mrs. Shep Lard, for ditto; tier. Mr. and Mm. J inks, for Herr -
shire ; Lovell, Esq. and Alr.. Lovell, for Susses; Mrs. marson,
Yorkshire: the Rey. F. Lewis, for Chepstow; Colonel Dannistiv. ea *
tour; Major Brice, ditto.
The Dul,^ and Duchess of Clarence and the two Nieves
Fitzelarenee anti &trite arrived yesterday at the Burliagron
Hotel, frotty finally Park, preparatory w t,ai 'r departure ,
for the Continent.

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