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'l'u suu lude with the Hueleel
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PER.

',rulerlea, Mr. Mangum; Itobin, Mi. rower Endless. Mr. Moa-
n oe.. t °visa. Mina Dorotny, Miss Love; Margaretta, Ills*
Cow tri ( .er Yd appearance on this Snort.).
o-toorrow, The School fur Sousdal, and Ulla.

ITAI3tAIiKET THEATRE.

E% ening, MON D AV, 00.31, will be performed the Comte Piece of
INTRIGUE.
Tom, Mr. W. Weat : Ellen. Madame Vestris,
After -.which the Comedy of
THE MERCIRN T OF VENICE.

Shylock, Mr. James- frnin7; ---------- Dassanto. Mr.
Raymond; Lumcebt, Mr. 11 liklueou. Portia. Mrs. Glover; Jebsirn,
G,otice.
To conclude with the Comic Drama of
THE EPAULETTE.
_ _

The Principal Character; by Dlidame Vestrls, Madames
T. 11111, A Junes. Glover, and P. t.locer.
T,--w,nrow. Know Your Own Mind. Lore Lausha at Locksmiths, and
Me Epaulette.

Ti.: T Palm commenced publishing on Saturday morn-
ing It fire 0 clock.

LONDON, MONDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1823.

Ltat night we received the Brussels Papers of Saturday.
It appears by the correspondence from Vienna that the
Austrian Government are considering how they can pre_
see t •the Greeks from capturing the Austrian vessels en-
gagsnl in the Turkish service. The Greeks are mare
lowarful at sea than the Austrians, and therefore reprisals
...re out of the question. The Austrian flag would be
swept off the Mediterranean in a week. Negotiation only re-
EI3IIIS, but it is evident that the Greeks cannot safely give
tp the principle on which they act. If they do, the command
of the sea will be useless to them. Turkish supplies will
be conveyed everywhere in neutral bottoms, and the Greek
ii:ariners vrouid become the passive spectators of the pre-
parations for the invasion of ..heir country. If the Austrian
Government wish to preserve their commerce from injury,
let them imitate the conduct of the British Government,
and prohibit their subjects from interfering in the contest,
unless they choose to do so at their own peril. The ac.
counts front Missolonglii are highly gratifying.
The following are extracts:—

VIENNA, OCT. 16.
[FROM A LETTER..
The successive accounts transmitted by the wartime authorities
at Trieste, relative to the excesses committed by the Greeks towards
i..e imperial flag, as well in the Archipelago as in the lonian sent,
PIVC strongly excit...l the attention of our Cabinet. It is at this
instnent engaged in discussing the measures to be adopted by way
in. -in tail. and it is even believed that orders will be immediately
g ven to the Austrian ships of war to capture the (beck 'web;
sew,: they may fleet with. On the other hand it is aErmcd, that
..crtrii members of the Ministry are of opinion that negotiations
ximild be entered into upon this subject, under the mediation of one
.. the maritime Powers, before femme Is had to an extremity, the
esult of which would be to place us in a state of war ct sea with the
ireela, whose marine is much superioi to the imperial navy ; toe no.
!keg could binnerthem from sending 'squadron to cruise off Trieste,
would do incalculable injury to the commerce of that city.
it is oburvati that the Greeks have advocates among the most con-
siderable yawns in this city, who justly blame the Captains of
at merchantmen for having violated their neutrality by taking
gon on board fur Turkish account.

AV63ZURCH, OCT. 20.

Our Correspondent at Trieste serds us the following details :
The sararchtuus of this c:ty are extremely alarmed by a report that
has just been spread that the Greeks have captured nearly twenty
.A urtrian vessels, for haring attempted to act contrary to the Decree
of tAle Government of °recce, which declaers the cows of Southern
Albania in a state of blockade.

Accer.t news has been received from Ali•solnr.gbi. The eltirrs
wbo eotarnaed in that place have taken advantage of Cite raising
the blockade by era to :vittforce the garrison. The trnipg
were scattered along the coast have been collected and embarked,
and hive arrived at Missolongiti ; this additional force has enabled
the Greeks to make several sallies, all of whirl: were liticce,,sful :
but the greatest advantage thy have gained it the destruction ut
tit! dike, by means of .Lich Itedschid Pupa hoped to force Misso-
,oiglti to capitulate.

P.111133EL3, OCT. 23.
We have late spoken of an affray at Ca.:chi between the stu-
dents and the civic guard. Some Belgic Journals, among ellich is
the Aahory °exotic, represent the allele as much more serious

than we at ;hat stated: We shall refrain from copying the different
s.ateni!nts, and watt for authentic accounts. It should seem, how.
ever, ltult it lutist bare been serious, because it is affirmed that a
Member of the High Court of Justice at the Hague has been sent to
the spot to direct the legal investigation.

OCT. 23.

The unfortunate affair M Utrecht is no before the tribunals.

The soldiers artl students cot plain of rich othrr. The latter
affirm that they are victims of acts of violence, fat %%Isiah no
•u.'riici:nt reason can be given.

Frankfort Papers nrrived yesterday to illel:2lth inst. An

article dated Constantinople, the Yid ult., states that sus
authentic accounts had been riceived from the Morea since
IBRAHIM PACIIA'S retreat to the coast; at least none had
been made public. Several absurd reports arc noticed
respecting what is called the Moldavian plan, ishich the
Viceroy of EC:l'l'T is said to have recommended the
StA.TAN to adopt, as the only course to extricate himself
from the labyrinth of the Greek insurrection. It is pre-
tended that CoLocornoNt is no stranger to this measure,
and that he approves of it. The whole story, we have .no,
doubt, is the fabrication of some German romance writer.
The Oriental Srertator deities that the insurrection in
Candia is either general or formidable. According to that
veracious Journal, a rabble of b or 600 men were landed
from Napoli di Romania at Csraboussa, an islet about three
quartets of a league from the coast apposite Kissamo, and
having surprised a small fort, ganisoned by a few Turks,
they Endeavoured to stir up the islanders to revolt, but the
attempt, we are told, wholly failed of success. It is sin-
gular, however, that it does not appear that any steps had
been taken by the Turkish authorities to seize this handful
of rebels. They rely, it seems, upon the return of the
Egyptian fleet for the restoration of crit.T. Why, if they
can, do they not restore it themselves ?

We have received New York Papers to the 3d instant'
anal Boa pen to the 30th ult. Their contents are
wits •
a
a Ntirl e4s,Paper, respecting an expedition from Cam-
peachy for the invasion of Cuba. The report, we believe,
is not entitled to the least credit. Captain COCHRANE,
who is represented as being appointed to the command of
the Asia, died, as our readers know, in Colombia. It is
not probable that he bad been negotiating with the Mexi-
can Government, for any naval command whatever. It
appea:s that Commodore Pons. En, of the United States,
has bees o3'-red the fast place in the Mexican Navy,-anti
it is reported that a similar overture has been made to that
officer from the Colombian Government.
The President of the United States arrived at Boston on
the 2‘3th ult. on a visit to his venerable father, who is in
the ninetieth year of his age. The Boston Gazette states that
the PRESIDENT, on his arrival, " took lodgings at the New
Exckaage Coffee-house." lie had hft his lady, Ms.
ADAMS, at Philadelphia, her health not being sufficiently
restored to allow her to proceed further northward.
The following are extracts:—
[From the Ncw York Gov(lel

NEW VOHS, OCT. I.

Mr. Anderson, Alinister Plenipotentiary from the United States
to the Republic of Colombia, is at present at Boston. lie w:11
shortly embark from this port for Colombia.
The Duke of Sale Weimar, acconTanied by Colonel Mikan,
of the army, and several other officers, yesterday visited the fortifi-
cations in our harbour, on which occasion salutes were fired. We
understand that the Duke expressed himself well pleased with

THE LAKES.—A gentleman, who has recently returned from a
residence at Michigan Territory, his informed the Editor of the
Salem Observer, that the British Board of Surveyors have been
ergaged, for the last two years, in making a survey of the British
territory in the vicinity of the lakes. The same gentleman was in.
formed by one of the surveyors, that they had found upwards Of
twenty.iwo thousand islands in Lake Huron.

111EXIco.—We have examined a file of Mexican papers down to
the latter end of July : they afford nothing for our columns. NVe
have before nv a letter from Alvarado, dated the Bth ult. and sub-
join a short extract from it.
" People out of business talk a great deal about the intended
invasion of Cuba. With rerpect to Vera Cruz, a report is just
now in circulation that news had reached the Castle of St. Juan
de L'l:os from Ilavannah, that no further relief could be sent to the
garrison. Deserters state that a Council was called to devise
ways and means, &c. : that two opinions divided the meeting—one
for surrendering, and the other for firing on the town until it should
be compelled to send provisions. N'e are still in the season of
the sick and dyine—many, ictleed, have suffered. For at new
corner this is a dreadful din:ate, but for one whom it suits it is
eveelleni."

INVAsios or Cout.—A new Orleans paper states, on the
authority of a gentleman from Mexico, that preparations are
ntrdang to invade Cuba 3,000 troops were collected at Cam-
pcschy, and 1.000 more were expected. The late Spanish frigive
Asia is to be put under the command of Captain Cochrane, and all
the other dirpossble naval force is intended for the same service.
Nl'asniNOTOW, SEPT. 24.
We are informed, and have no doubt of the tact, that Commodore
David Porter has lately been invited to enter the service of the Re-
public of Mexico, as Commander-in• Chief of its naval forces. The
Exceptive M that Republic decided, cn the 4th of July last, to re-
commend to the Council of the Government to tender this appoint-
ment to Commodore Porter ; on the 30. b of July, the proposition
was approved by the Council, and the oft,r has accordingly been
made to him. We understand, also, that a similar overture has
been made to C.immodore Porter on the part of the Government of
Colombia.

It e have not understood what Commodore Porter's determina-
tion is in relation to either of these offers. _

..-...- ....----...-
The Navy of Mexico, we arc intilrmett, will shortly consist of
one line of battle ship, four or five frigates, and some smaller ves-
sels. We presume its ultimate augmentation will be very con-
siderable. as the last opproiriation for the purpose *as, we believe,
three millions of dollars.

The Navy cf Colombia will consist, in a short time, of a force
equal, or ruperior to that of Illezico, as there are now buil ling,
both In England and the United States, some ships °foliage class,
intended for the service of that Republic.
The invitation from Illerticn mint be very gratifying to Comn:o•
dose Porter's feelings, as it is the highest compliment, we believe,
that has been offered by any government to a foreign officer.
:Vatican! Intelligeffuer.
_ LORD COCHRANE AND TIIE BRAZILS.

It appears by information received Iron' Captain Merrill, of the
ship Arethuas, arrived this morning in thirty-eight days from
St. Salvador, that his Lordi.hip had been ordered by the Emperor
of Brazil to repair to Rio, but declined the honour of obeying his
master, shipped a quantity of cotton to Matauham, and made his
escape in a frigate. In consequence of this conduct, the Emission
had struck his name from the Brazilian navy, and deprived him
of. his newly acquissd titles, such as the Marquis of Alaranham,
&c. &c. and appointed Commodore Jewett, Admiral of the feet.
11re have already announced in the Gazette the arrival of the
quondam Admiral in England, where, it is believed, he is enjoying
the rich reward of his disinterested patriotism towards South
America —Balamore Gazette.
PRICES OF STOCK3.—NFw YORK. OCT.l.—l'llited States'
Sizes, 1813, 100i1 sales--ditto IRIS, 104 ditto.—United States four
and a half, 1&13, 1004 ditto. —Exchange on London, 11/9 to 110—
Spanish Dollars, I! to 2—Doubloons, 15 89 to 15 85—Ditto Pa clot
15 SS to 15 60.

The secret anxiety felt by the more rational of the work-
ing classes to return to their employment, and to support
their families by the regular earnings of their industry; in-
stead of depending or: the very limited weekly allowance
doled out to them by their refractory leaders, has made it
necessary that greater exertions than ever should be made
to spirit them up to resistance.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And well not fail,"
i 6 the burtlicn of their song, and the essence of all their
exhortations.

The Trades' Newspaper of yesterday contains some re-
commendatory extracts from a letter which appeared last
week in the Leeds papers, from the pen of an Operative
(William Longson), on " the Bradford turn-out," which
we are told "-exhibits an intelligence and sagacity that
would do honour to any cause." As the Writer measures
his language to the capacities of his fellow-workmen, and
a 4 the latter cannot fail to be influenced by the sentiments
which come from one of their owl, number, it may be worth
while to examine the validity of his reasoning, in order to
prevent the less reflective among them from being misled,
We say the leas reflective, became this description, when-
ever men are in great numbers, will always conatitute the
majority. • 'faking the Operatives as a class, we are far
from underrating their intellectual rank. They have

THE fiItITISH PRESS.

among them many whose strung natural good sense, quick-
ened by their active intercourse with society, gives them—
and very deservedly—great weight and influence in tl.
det to which they belong. if the whole of those ceutpos-
ing that order were governed by these superior minds, • 'leir
measures would partake of the wisdom by which they were
suggested, and of the prudence by which they were con-
troled. But unfortunately the influence of such persons is
overpowered by the restless energy of a faction t‘lto forci-
bly take the lead, who send out their delegates in every
direction—and inspire tError into all who refuse to join the
insurrectionary UNION which they have organised to for-
ward their own purposes and to effect their own views.
Their great aim is to make it appear to the public that a
generous cause is asserted, and that Mr!, are the champions
of humanity against oppression—ef the honest, hard-toil-
ing, half-paid workmen, against the rich, hard-hearted,
extortionate manufacturers. These men are restless in
their efforts ; night and (Ley are they busy in widening the
separation between these two classes. 'Where we are to
find the means of securing the public prosperity, or even
the public peace, against the extensive confederacy which
they have raised against both, is more than the wisest can
tell. The state of things at present offers no indication that..
can guide the judgment of any one as to the remedy.
This OTF.RATIVE, who, in his letter to his Brethren, un-
dertakes to enlighten diem into the principles which oc-
casioned the " Bradford turn-out," wears by no means
to rank with the intellectual of his order; whether he let. 4
himself down to the level of the ignorant, or whether he
stands—as to us, he appears to do—upon the same plat-
form, it is of no great importance to decide. We will take
his instructive epistle as we find it, and we will confine
our eminent to the extract which the Trader' Newspaper
has selected as peculiarly edifying
. .

.
" Persons unacquainted with the affair, may think that there
must be something unjust and culpable in the spirit or these
Useiows, since the destruction or them is so eagerly and haprd-
ously sought, by persons who have some indefinite and fantastic
quality crated by wealth, called respectable, attached to their
character. I will not say that ther: can be notking wrong or re-
prehensible in Trades' Unions, but I say that every thing wrong in
them may be corrected, a thousand times easier than their destruc-
tion can be effected.
• • • • • •

"When two or three employers out of fifty—(and it can be no libel
on the human character to suppose three bad in fifty)-1 say, that
when these two or three reduce workmen's wages, they C.ln am; will
undersell all the others:—those others perceive the means whereby
they are undersold: well, the pie: of rite whole of their manu-
factured goods is depreciated in the same proportion that those two
or three have enabled thetmelves t ) reduce their goods by defraud-
i3g their workmen of a yor.ion of their wages. All the well-dis-
posed masters are thus obliged to reduce wages in their own defence.
The unprincipled again reduce wigs, which again lays the
whole of the masters under the same necessity as before of a
genera reduction. Now, it is eVldent, that to counteract the
source of nil this mischief, it it not necessary that there be a
union of workmen to oppose the whole of the masters; but to
leave the employ of the few unprincipled ones, who cause, or force
the others to reduce. What can there be in such an Union, that
is either so unjust or so injurious, as to draw forth such torrents
of abase, bitter invective, and formidable bombast, so copiously
p)ured through the columns of a hireling press, by anonymous
cipindies, against the Uoions of Trades ? "

This writer, we think, gives but a feeble specimen of his
own sagacity, and pays but a poor c.lnpliment to that of
his brother operatives, when he attempts to instruct them
by such reasoning as this. Ilia " two or three employers
out of fifty," must be the only short-sighted of the whole
number to lower the wages of their workmen, and imme-
diately reduce in a still greater proportion the amount of
their ;:rolls, which they must do in order to undersell the
remainder of the fifty, who sell at the accustomed prices
of the trade. They must be two or three wiseacres indeed,
who, under the unee) taint!, of being able to extend the
market for their goods, incur the certain loss consequent on
lowering their prices. And what is stated to be the result
of this brilliant manceuvre ? IVhy " all the well-disposed
masters," says this profound Operative, "are thus obliged to
reduce wages in their own defence." Nonsense. Wl►y, is it
not obvious that if tliese two or three intrench very
materially on the market, previously supplied by the other
manufacturers, that in order to supply this increased de..
?nand, they must of necessity require an increased number
if hands, and are thus placed at the mercy of their discon-
tented workmen, whose wages they have lowered, and who
will take advantage of it to insist upon a rise, and if not
given will strike. how would these employers escape from
the predicament in which they would bare thus placed
themselves ? It is quite clear they could obtain no work-
men from any one of the fifty who had not reduced the
rate of wages, and they would have no alternative left but
to give a still higher rate of wages than before, in order to
tempt workmen into their employ, and he enabled to exe-
cute their orders, or to leave them unexecuted, to the great
disappointment of the foreign merchant, and probably to
their own ruin. Such a miserable want of foresight as
such conduct implies, can never be urged in defence of that
system of combination which it is brought forward to sup-
port. But we will give the remainder of his reasoning:—
" A few," says "or even the whole operatives, employed by
any of these grinding masters, cannot, by leaving his employ,
oblige him to be contented with the general rate of profits, because
in every trade there is a redundancy of hands ; and from the re-
dundancy these masters can immediately obtain workmen in the
place of those who refuse the wages he offers. So that those who
would contend with such oppressors, have no alternative but sub-
mission or starvation, unless they be in Union."

But he here admits a fact that utterly upsets all he is
contending for. It is admitted that masters can immedi-
ately obtain workmen u Wing to accept the wages thly
and the conclusion that we are made to draw from this
fact is, that the masters in every trade arc oppressors, and
that their workmen can no otherwise protect themselves
but by combination. And on what principle is their com-
bination conducted ? Why, to prohibit by every means,
whether of persuasion or of terror, any one of these redun-
dant hands from seeking employ, or accepting it, under any
other terms than the leaders of tho.l; niou shall demand
from the master-manufacturer, whom they thus place in
the same condition of which they themselves so loudly com-
plain, by offering them go alternative but SUBMISSION or
RUIN.

Those who write as this Ore It ATlva writes, arpeal, not
to the reason of the working-chases, but to their passions.
Labour is, just es much as any other commodity, to be
bought fora price, and is just as much afFeend as any
other by the state of the market. It is here admitted—and
the fact no doubt is so—that the market of labour is over-
stocked. It it acknowledged that there is a red,indanry of
hands always ready to accept of wages below the standard
rate. This, of itself, proves that the wages given are not
the lowest fur triieli workmen maybe obtained. Why then
is every epithet of vulgar malignity heaped upon the
manufacturing Capitalist ? IVhy are the changes
perpetually rung upon such choice appellatires as
a !pants, Oppressors, and grinding MAST E us ? Supposing
—which however is not the fact—that employers always
purchased labour where it was to be had cheapest, there
is no more of positive oppression or injustice in this, that
we see, than that the labourers should themselves purchase

bread and butcher's meat where they are to be had
cheapest. It would be a very extraordinary reason fur
abusing them as a act of grinding kmen in refusing to
pay a higher price for these at Coles when they could pro-
cure them at a lower, because from the competition in trade
they could immediately go to other bakers and butchers
" in the place of those who refus:tl the price they offered."
lint our operative, WILLIAM Lotrosox, waxes warm,
ard unluckily beconns his intelligible as be gets more in-
temperate':—
" When a n:aster," he nays, " will widiold from his workmen,
from 20 to 10 par cat. of the wages paid by other master's for the
same labour, will any man have the hardihood to face me clown,
that the wotkmen ought to be compelled and starved into submis-
sion to this barefaced robbery P 'Were some of these petty tyrants
to hold a dagger's point aga'nst a workman's breast, and compel
him, by a menace of instant deatt, to sell his labour upon such
terms, every body would call it a robbery: but is not hunger
as sharp end dreadful an instrument of death as a dagger.?"

No doubt of it; but such declamation as this proves
nothing. If it were worth any thing, it might be made
equally serviceable to either side. It maybe cf some use
to show this Operative of what flexible materials his labours
are fashioned, and that when taken to pieces they are just
as applicable in the way of defence an of attack. We will
take but a very slight liberty with the arrangement, and
the above appeal will stand thus—" When workmen will
demand from their masters from 20 to 30 per cent. higher
wages for the same labour, will any man have the hardiheo I
to face me down that the masters ougfit to be compelled and
%reed into submission to this barefaced robbery ? Were
some of these petty tyrants to hold a dagger's point against
a master's breast, and compel him, by a menace of instant
death, to buy their labour upon such terms, every body
would call it a robbery, but is not utter ruin as sharp
and dreadful a menace as a dagger?"—What answer
will our word.), Operative make to thii ?

We will leave him to re-consider the rest of his disser-
tation on " the Bradford turn out," having ourselves no
leisure to pursue it further. He will do well to rectify his
nations before he again comes forward to irritate his
brethren to the contest. His design apparently is, that it
should be a sweepstakes battle; but full, however, of
danger as the interval may be, we have no fear for the
result.

CITY. SATCADAT EVENINO.

The Money Markets have been in a very depressed state
this morning, and sales have been effected at a great sacri-
fice. The business was not extensive in Consuls, but there
was mare doing than has been the case for some time on a
Saturday, a circumstance probably to be accounted for in
the general want of confidence, and uncertainty with regard
to the future. Speculators arc consequently unsettled in
their plans, and take alarm ;it every report that is raised,
flowerer groundless or ridiculous it may be. Notwithstand-
ing this state of things, Consols rather improved towards
the close of the day, leaving off at 877, buyers; they had
been previously done, for the November account, at
The most important operations, however, to-day, were
in the Foreign Market, in which some considerable trans-
actions tco's place at declining prices. Indeed, the panic
appears as excessive as it is unreasonable. Every body
seems, at present, as desirous to get out of securities of
every description in this market, as they were a few months
ago eager to purchase them, pat ticularly in the Share
Market. We had occasion, in the beginning of the year,
to warn our readers against the extreme rage for specula-
tion which then prevailed; and now we equally feel it our
duty to warn them against becoming the dupes of their
own timidity. As far as the Share Market is concerned,
we have but little doubt that it will be shortly cleared of
the many paltry and fraudulent companies that have ells-
graced it. The associations that will remain, will then
speedily recover their just value in the Market, below which
they are slow in many instances unreasonably depressed.
Several unfavourablr reports were in circulation to-day,
regarding the Mining Associations, but they could be traced
to no respectable source, no attention was paid to them.
These Associations arc, however, a memorable example of
the rapid mutations of public opinion. In the Spring, the
Shares were raised higher than their most sanguine pro-
jectors could have expected upon the mere publication of
their prospectus. In the autumn, when it is known that
they have made considerable progress in accomplishing the
objects they proposed to effect, they fall iuto disrepute. and
IN cause they have not immediately supplied the proprietors
with the wealth of El Dorado, they are treated as if they
were utterly worth!, us. It is a singular fact, that while
this opinion prevails in England, the public journalists of
Paris are filled with lamentations, that this country should
have succeeded in obtaining possession of the American
Mines, which they justly consider as one of the greatest
achievements of our mercantile skill and enterprise.
During the latter part of the day, South American Se-
curities
declined nearly 1 pet cent.; Colombian Benda
being done at 731 1; Mexican Scrip 91 9 discount, and
Guatemala ditto .51 S discount ; Brazilian Scrip was also
under Thursday's quotation. This morning it was 98i
discount; Greek Bonds were at 261 /, and Spanish ditto
171.

According to accounts from Smyrna, of the 20th Sept.,
that great city was desolated by a conflagration, which still
continued when the couriers came away, and was said to
have already destroyed 3;000 houses.
Extract of a letter dated Stockholm, Oct. 14.—" The
Swedish brig Christopher Columbus, which sailed last year
on a voyage to Colombia, has returned, and this mercantile
speculation hoe proved very advantageous. This is chiefly
ascribed to the intervention of Count Adlercreuta, a Swede,
wli^ has been for several years a Colonel in the Colombian
service, and is at present the chief of the Corps of Engi-
neers. For a long time a change in our Tariff of Customs
has been spoken of, and it has been connected with an ap-
proaching convocation of the Diet ; but it is now asserted
that there will be no new Tariff this year, nor a Convoca-
tion of the Diet."

By the advicesreg_ived by his Majesty's yacht the Herald,
which arrived from Quebec at Portsmouth on Friday even-
ing, it appears that the settlements of Upper and Lower
Canada were in the most prosperous condition ; trade was
never so brisk, upwards of 750 ships having visited Que-
bec this season. Nearly 100 sail of merchant shipping had
been already launched, which had minted such a dearth of
seamen, that 131. per month wages was the current price,
and it was expected would soon increase to 20/. Ten ships
were loading with corn for England, but it was not expected
there would he great exports of this article, as the present
crop, though it was all saved, was considered rather a light
one ; 311t1 the new Colonial Act, which levies a duty of 15
pc r colt. on all imposts, would prevent the Canadians from
importing American Wheats, in lieu of their own crops,
which, if this new duty had not been imposed, they would
Dave done, and sent their own produce to this country.—
lianquitire Telegraph.
The letters received on Saturday from the northern
porta of the Braids, state that cotton was tinsaleable, on
account of the decline of the prices in England ; the
Exchange at Bahia had fallen front 6 Ito &S.
The Americans are building twelve corvettes of between
six and seven hundred tons burden, which are to mount
twenty-two 42-pounder carronades, and four long 24-
pouader guns each.—Hamprhire Tehgroph.
STEAM PACKET LIG TB.—WC understand from good
authority, that the Et( am-packets running in the River
Thames, and those to Margate, carry three lights, triangle,
at their foremast-head, whenever it becomes dark, and
have done so for a considerable length of time. Wit
earnestly recommend and entreat, that all persons having
the management of steam-packt is should cause a similar
light to be carried, whether running in the river or at sea,
the better to distinguish them from all other vessels. Had
such lights been hoisted on board the Ayr and Comet, it is
very probable themelancholy accident would not have: hap-
pened in the Orle.