The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-02-25 00:00:00

T4ONDON UNITED MINE COMPANY.—Notice
X is hereby. even, that an EXTRAORDINARY GENE.
HAL AIEETING of the .1' RoPRIETOII.I4 will be held at
the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on MONDAY,
the edh cf March; at Twelve o'clock precisely, to take into con-
sideration the espedieney, under the existing pressure of the times,
of enatiling the Shareholders to consolidate their Shares which
are not ostd up in full, and to relieve them as far as possible from
(attics calls, by limiting she operations of the Company to such
extent es shall be deemed advisable, and also to consider of the
prorrie.r of the Directors esereitngthe power invested in them by
the el Regulations, of forfeiting all Shares upon which the
instalments now due shall not be paid.
FREDERICK GUY, Secretary.
9. T,lcerhouse.yard, Feb. 16, 18•26.
N.B. Proprietors are requested to bring their certificates of
Sl'3f VI, Of receipts, utherwice they will nut be entitled to ad.

Ncoßpoll AT ED SOCIETY for the MANAGE-
MENT and DISTRIBUTION of the LITERARY
FUND.
The Annual General Meeting of the Members of this Society
will be held at the Society's Chambers, No. 4, Lincoln's ha-
ndl* cm WEDNESDAY, March e, for the ELECTION of
their OFFICERS, and for the transaction of other basins:as.
The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely.
CHARLES SYMMONS,
J. B. NICHOL:4. Registrars.
JAMES CHRISTIE,

QE.I3IEN'S II(Y8PITAI, SOCIETY.—The FIFTH
1.1 ANNIVERSARY DINNER of this INSTITUTION
will be held at the London Tavern on THURSDAY, the 9th of
Muth,
The Right !lon. bard Viscount MELVILLE in the Chair.
lITEWARTS
WIT. Thompson. Esq. M.P.
A Iderman
Capt. A'Court, R.N. M.P.
I 'apt. Robert I's' R.N.
(.apt. Frederick M matt, R.N
Cam. W. 0. Pelt. R.N.
CaN. Wm. Young, R.N. •
Capt. Philip Hughes, 11.C.5.
I:apt. Welbank, 11.C.5.
henry Alexander, Esq.
Richardson Rerradalle, Esq. I
Dinner to been Table at Six o'Clock precisely.
Tickets. One Pound each, to be bad at the Dar of the 1•011dOn
TATCTU, and of Mr. Harley. Secretary, at the Office,l9. Bishops.
a ue.str,et Within.

John Capel. Egg.
John Calvert Clakc, Esq,
D. Gordon. Esq.
Niven Kerr, Esq.
Jos. Tbenp Mitchell. Esq.
George C. Redman, Esq.
Capt. Hush Reid
William ltothery, Ecq.
Pat. Maxwell Stewart. Esq.
James Walker, Esq.

VENABLES, MAYOR.
A COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the CHAMBER of the
GUILDHALL of the CITY of LONDON, on FRIDAY,
the 2tth LIT of Febtuary, 1821 i,

REsni.vtD.
THAT. cordially approving of lice principles of Free
Trade, we are desirous of seeing them carried into effect, u
far as is practicable under the circumstances in which this Country
is placed.
That this Court is deeply impressed with the present distress of
the Country, which siriously affects almost every branch of Manu-
facturing and Commercial Interests.
That, while this Court approves of the principles of Free Trad;
and is desirous of seeing all unnecessary restrictions upon the Cont.
merce of the country removed, as far as practicable, yet it. Is the
most strongly impressed with the difficulty and danger of carrying
such measures into effect, with the present high price of food, arti-
ficially kept up hy the Restrictions upon the Importation of Corn,
Kid the Load of Debt and Taxes, which still press upon thc Ma-
nufacturers of this Country, and whi:h must disable them from
competing with those countries where food is cheap, and the na-
tional burdens inconsiderable:
That the Corn Laws in their operation counteract the natural
tendency of industry, skill, and enterprize to improve our manufse-
tures, and thereby to render this Country the market fur supplying
the demands of a great part of the habitable globe.
That with a view to facilitate these objects, it is essential that
raw materials of every description should be freely imported in ex-
change for the goods manufactured in this country.
That the foreign demand for the manufactures of this country is
hi a great degree by the means of payment possessed by
foreign consumers • and, as Otos• countries winch are purely Agri-
slOtural can only barter with the produce of their soil, it follows
that Sy prohibiting the importation of such produce they are de-
barred from purchasing British goods, and thus induced to become
our competitors in many. branches of manufactures.
That restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn, while Free
Trade Is to he opened for Foreign 3lanufacturea, tends to de-
prive British Artisans of employliant, at the same time that it
enormausly enhances the price of their food, and reduces them to a
mate of pauperism.
That this Court cannot consider the present system of the Corn
Laws beneficial to the Agricultural Interests, seeing that under
them the moo extreme fluctuations of price and distressing reverses
have been experienced by the farmer, while the peasantry have been
reduced to a condition of great misery and distress.
That the present distress demands an immediate and effectual
reduction of the Expenditure of Uovernment, in the Military and
every other Department where it can be admitted, in order that the
country may be relieved from the Assessed Taxes, and all those
bulbuls which so greedy impede the restoration of national pro-
sperity. WOODTRORPE.

SCOTCH WHISKY.—WILLIAM PITMAN, Agent
0 to the Proprietors of the.LILLIYBURN DISTILLERY,
has received for SALE some very superset MALT AQUA,
samples of which may be had at his Warehouse, 8, Well•court,
Quve. -street, Cheap Me.

CAMBRIAN ESSENCE wholly sup rado
the• necessity of smoking meat in • chimney or smoking
holm, u it gives the true NVestphalian or Wood 'smoke Barest
to ri very superior manner and in a much shorter time. This highly
useful article was well known to, and much approval by, the -late
sir Joseph Banks. It may be applied with equal advaatage to
Hams, Tongues, BaciA, Beef, or Fish. and perfectly answers the
purpose in either ease.
Sold‘wholesale and mail. by the Proprietors, Edward Smith
and Co. ehymiats, &e., 29, Haymarket t sad retail by Ball and Co.
31, New Bond-street ; Day and Co., 95, Vraeseiturch-street ; At-
kinson. $O2, Oxford-street; 31‘31illan. 10, Leadenhall.street ;
Neighbour, 131, High Holborn ; Roberts, 119, Groat Hassell.
arrest; stokes, 42, Yenchnrch.street; bterry, 1211, Blackman-
street; and many ether respectable oil and Italian wasebouars...—
in bottles, fs., Ss. 6d., 34. each.