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upon their fellow workmen. The rights of all parties will
henceforth be clearly dehned t and instead of the disgrace-
ful scenes of idleness and turbulence which some of the
manuiacturing districts have lately exhibited, we shall
again behold the cheering spectacle of universal industry
and content.

That all legislative interference to regulate the price of
labour, is not only unjust towards !te workmen, but in-
jurious in itself, there can be no doubt. There requires no
circuitous train of reasoning to prove it to be so. If such
interference is called for by their employers, and is for their
benefit, in the same proportion it must be against the in-
terests of the workmen ; if called for by the workmen for
their advantage, its effect must be to subject their em-
ployers to their exaction, and thus to lead rn both sides to
harassment, vexation, and ruin. 'f he wages of labour
must ever be left to the adjustment of both parties acting
with perfect freedom, anti to all those circumstances—never
to be defined beforehand—which determine the particular
interests el each. No questions of right enter into such
negotiations on either side ; there is nothing, therefore, for
the laws to regulate, or for the tribunal of Parliament to
decide. When a manufacturer shall give, or a workman
accept, a certain rate of wages, is, with each, purely an
affair of prudence, and to be governed by all those circum-
stances which control and influence—each in their order—
all the contracts and concerns of private life, That the
Cotalination Laws were utter unsound in theis policy,—
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most partial and oppressive in their spirit,—and full of
vexation and wretchedness in their result—had been amply
proved by experience. They originated in the reign of
EDWARD 111. a period of utter darkness as to the true prin-
ciple& of political justice ; they must seek, in the ignorance
of the age which gave them birth, an apolou for their
enactment. It was wise, therefore, to repeal them ;it
was consistent with that liberal and enlightened policy
which distinguishes the system of the present Admlnistra-
' Lion, and which will distinguish it to after ages, as forming
an era in the British Government.

CITY, -MONDAY EVENING.

The transactions of the British Stock Market were rather exten-
sive this morning, and the price of Cowl* for the opening im-
proved; reachin; at the dole of the day hit i. The reduced An-
nuities were at 90i 111. Indeed, the English Funds have not ap-
peared in so flint a state since the recent panic as at the present
moment. The French Funds came better by the express this
morning, and that circumstance, no doubt, tended in some degree to
the improvement in the British Market.

In the Foreign Market, Spanish Securities were principally at-
tended to; and, in consequence of no intelligence having been re.
ceived respecting the New Spanish Loan, they drooped in a very
trifling degree ; the Old Bonds being done at 244 1, and the New
at 191 1. Greek Scrip contir.ues to advance. It was to day, at 10,
0.1 discount. The Bonds were 401. South American Securities
were better, and evinced • strong disposition to raise. Colombian
Bonds were at 87184, and M. xican Scrip at 2 discount. Brazilian
ditto waif discount, and the Danish 31 discount.
The business in the Share Market was not extensive. but • ten-
dency towards an improvement of prices was apparent in it.
Anglo Alexi= Shares were clone at 90, those of the Pawn Peru-
vian Company at 141. The New Potosi Shales were at 71, and
the General Alining at 114, I2A.

A decree, comprising a gieaintather of articles, was
published on the Bth of this month at Milan, awarding the
punishment of death td any one who should be found
guilty of being a spy upon the strength, state of the army,
the dispositions, plans, and movements of the troops, the
state of a fortress or fortification, of Provisions of depots or
magazine+, &c. with the intention of communicating them
to the enemy in any manner whatever. He will be consi-
dered as a spy who, even in time of peace, shall enter into
any of the above-named investigations in order to transmit
the result to a foreign power.
We are assured that all the projects for an Italian
Federation, which have been for some time entertained,
are now definitely postponed, and that the Diplomatic
Meeting at Milan will be followed by no results upon this
subject. The refusal of England to participate in this
Congress, is not, we should suspect, the only difficulty
that stood in the way of the contemplated arrangements.
It has been manifest, that the Sovereigns of Italy who are
connected with the Bourbon family, felt a disinclination
towards the plan, which proved that their wishes lay in
another direction.—courier.
Accounts from Genoa state, that the Emperor and Em-
press of Austria, the Viceroy and Vice-Queen of the Lom-
bard and Venetian States, and the Duchess of Parma left
Genoa for Parma 7th inst.

Extract of a letter received yesterday from Paris:—
" There is a great operation in gold and silver here, melt-
ing down your coin into ingots to be sent elsewhere. lat
first did not believe it; but I have, within the last ten
days, been carried to the places where this process was
going forward. The amount is stated to be very great."
An article in the Ephemeri, Qf Athena, of November last,
says that an enumeration had been made of the inhabitants
by the Governors of the city. The number was found to
be 9,040.
The permission to import foreign wheat into Spain
through the ports of Algesiras, Seville, Almeira, and Ma-
laga, upon payment of half a dollar per fanags, has been
extended to 30th next month inclusive, and to the ports of
Barcelona and Tarragona. The Spanish Government has
prohibited the admission into the Spanish dominions of the
Popalar•, a newspaper published in the Spanish language,
by Members of the late Cortes and other revolutionists in
London.—Gihral/ar Chronkle, May 30.
Extract of a letter. dated Gibraltar, May 30 :—" Abso-
lam, the master of the Neptune, from Zante, states, that he
saw an Algerine squadron, with troops, on the 3tl inst. off
Alicata, consisting of three frigates, two brigs, and two
schooners, bound to the Archipelago, which demanded the
Mediterranean Pass.—A Colombian schooner was cruising
off Cape de Galt three days since, and a brig, the Vincidor,
(Colombian brig of war), the General Soitana, and Aqui-
leba, privateers, sailed from bere the 2.5 th inst."
Baron Devoe, a magistrate of Brussels, long in offfee, has
recently been fined a thousand florins for omissions, errors
in dates, and irregularities committed in the registers of
marriages during the years 102'2 and 18513.
We understand by some letters from Buenos Ayres,
that the liberation of the British subjects in Paraguay
has been solely obtained through the address and perse-
verance of Mr. Parish, our Consul at Buenos Ayres.
He is said to be the only individual who has been able
to acqnire an influence over the mind of Dr. Gaspar° de
•Franc:a, the Dictator of Paraguay ; and there is good
ground to infer, from various circumstances which have
transpired, that the basis is laid of a future beneficial
intercourse with that important country, at present,
(owing to the system by which it is governed) so little
known. It appears that Francis is engaged in some dis-
cussions with the Government of Buenos Ayres, relative to
a-right of free passage to the ocean, on which he insists,
although he kept his own ports closed, and prohibited on
his part, in pursuance of his own system, all intercourse
with Buenos Ayres. The population of Paraguay is esti-
mated at 500,000. Nothing had excited more astonish-
ment at Buenos Ayres than Mr. Parish's success in the
negociation with trancia, which had very much increased
the importance and influence of the English in general.
A letter from the Cape of Good Hope, of the 4th of
April, states, that Mr. Van Lier, the Secretary of the
Burgher &nate, who wa» ordered for prosecution en a
charge of embezzlement, has absconded, as supposed, in a
French vessel, after burning all the books.
The Af Pan Gazette states that General Buena, Corn-
, mander-in-Chief in Lombardy, died on the 7th of June,
of gout. which seized the brain. Ile was 5.5 years of age.
On Saturday several members of the Colombian Agri-
cultural 41ssociation gave a dinner to Mr. Hurtado, the
Colombian Minister, at the Star and Garter, Richmond-
hill. Among the company were Sir James Mackintosh,
Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Lambton, Mr.
Denman, Mr. J. Williams, Mr. Ellice, and Mr. Hob-
house.