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Ibis taken place In their constration : the taste for Wan Ist the
[wintry i. becoming more prevalent, and the rapid Inoue. of intik
Wants tenders this most necessity. On the toad to New Hulse
aversi tine properties have been perfectly cleared of wool, mi
seady laid out foe the construction of country houses.

JAVA.
We have received the Decrees of the Jan Government, re+Tee^
ng the abolition of the ask monopoly, and the'opesing of the ports
to foreign vends. It appears that these liberal resolutions wen
among the last acts of the Baron Vander Capellan's Government.

BORNEO PROPEL

Sirce our list number a- Prohn has come in from this quarter,
and the reports of the country are very favourable. The present
Rajah, who was elected by the people after his predecessor had been
beheaded, is represented as being the best King that has ever sat
on the throne of Borneo. and is praised highly for his love of justice.
He speaks the Chinese language fluently, and decides all disputes
between his Chinese and Borman subjects In person. Several
Praline ate expected to arrive shortly from Borneo; and his Majesty
was preparing vessels for the annual mission to Singapore.

CHINESE JUNKS.
Fmm the Singapore Chronicle of May 4.]
Since the formation of our settlement, its harbour has not been
so crowded, from Bankok and Imoy, as since the commencement
of the present year. There are at this present time upwards of 70
sail in the roads, all engaged in discharging or taking In cargoes.
We have also three vessels foe the first time from the Province of
Quing Tong. The number of emigrants which have arrived by
them and other vessels, exceeds considerably that of former seasons.
They are. from quang Tong, 4,418; and from Tobias. 1,098.—
About 3.1.00 of the whole number are ascertained to have distria
holed themselves in Ithio std the neighbouring parts; and those
who have remained at Singapore are chiefly agriculturists. The
Chinese merchants are showing great spirit in the extension of the
commerce of this settlement with China.

Several projects are on foot for tho improvement of the Colony,
the most important of which, in a commercial point of view, is the
erection of light-houses, two of which have been already authorised
by the Supreme Government. A lottery for the improvement of
the towts and river has also been sanctioned ; and the licences
granted to individuals for clearing and cultivating ground, and for
building in the town, are confirmed.

The amount of quit rcnt payable to the Government will be ex-
tremely moderate.

We have also commenced a new branch of trade with the 31su-
rltius. a vessel with beech de mer having arrived; and we may ex-
pect that a regular and profitable intercourse will be established
between the Colonies.

In another part of our paper will be found an account
of a meeting at Manchester, on the subject of the Corn
Laws and retrenchment. The questions connected with
these become at the present moment subjects of the deepest
importance to the welfare of the country ; and every addi-
tional argument which may be suggested to his Majesty's
Ministers, in whatever quarter it may originate, must be
hailed by them as an additional weapon put into their
hands for averting the worst dangers which ever menaced
a country. In yielding, as we have done, to reasons of
expediency as preventing Ministers from going on too
rapidly in the career of reformation, it has never been our
intention for a moment to defend the slightest iota of ex-
pense which it might be possible to avoid without entail-
ing serious evils upon the community. Though we
admit the propriety of conducting the business of re-
trenchment by degrees, and with caution, none can be
more sensible than we are of the danger which may
be anticipated from an extravagant method of con-
ducting the business of the nation ; none can be more
alive than we arc to the necessity of abridging the expense
of collecting the revenue ; none can feel more strongly
than we do the imperative nature of that demand which
has been made on his Majesty's Government, to diminish,
as much as may be, the weight of the burdens which a
war of unexampled expense and exertion has rendered it
neceleary to impose upon the-generations that are to follow
us. It would be short-sigtted indeed to imagine that the
operation of time would remedy an evil, like this. A sud-
den ebullition of commercial enterprise ma!) be remedied by
time, which will soon reduce the state of men's minds to
their natural temperature; but a weight of taxation press-
ing incessantly on a people; a set of individuals like the
creditors of the nation, with whom the nation is bound, by
every obligation of honour and interest, to preserve its
good faith unsullied and unimpenched ; a constant reduc-
tion thus continually made from the rewards of every man's
labour, in order to support these whose property enables them
to reap the fruits of the toil of others ;—such circum-
stances as these in continual operation must, in the end
have the effect of discouraging industry amongst us—of
reducing our population to the scale of Continental nations—
and of eventually pineging us into a depth of national dis-
tress, from which nothing will ever be able to deliver us,
What means are to be used to avert evils cf such mag-
nitude it is impossible for its to say : sonte means must be
used, and it is vain for ono interest to dispute with another,
as it has been usual for some time to do. All interests are
equally concerned in the questions which are now agitated;
and if any one of these interests refuses to make its portion
of the sacrifices required, they must all perish together.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.

This having, been a bolyday at the Bank, there has been
but liitLi doing in the Funds ; even time bargains have not
been of that character to affect the quotation for the open-
ing on Monday, the price being 81; 82. There was* more
abundant supply of Exchequer Hills than for some days
past, which fully rcaliz_•d the quotation of yesterday,
being 25 V; premium. India Bonds arc one shilling lower,
at 42.

In the Fin% ign Market Mexican Bonds have advanced
to 63;,and for 15th \oven)Ler to Gt,the various reports of a
new Loan, amended Loan, and so forth, beginning to be
disregarded by the public. Colombian Bonds show an
advance to 39, at which price there were many purchases
made. In the absence of the Jamaica Packet every thing
of caurse is conjecture, but the opinion at present is
decidedly in favour gicA rise. M. Micro:LENA. the near,
Minister of Finance from Colombia to this country, has
arrived at Curacoa on his way to England. It is not true,
as stated, that he is to supersede M. Win' ADO. That
gentleman remains in England to conduct the affairs diplo-
matique, M. MICHELEN A taking charge of the finance
deparunent only. The report is, that the latter gentleman
has powers f.r raking a new Loan. Such circumstance,
however, would appear to be doubtful, for it can only be
done by the authority of an act of the Legislature, and
none such is known to have passed that body. Chilian
Bonds have retrograded to fiG t, and Buenos Ayres to 62y.
Greek ar.d Spanish are stationary at last quotations.
In Shares there is no alteration.

Extract of s letter from Lloyd's agent, dated Smyrna,
Oct. 6:—" Sir 11. Niale has circulstea a letter, statiiig
that as five Greek brigs of war have separated from the
fleet and become pirates, be cannot be answerable for the
safety of any vessel that may sail without the protection
of convoy. A convoy is appointed to be at the Pardanelles
on the Ist of (Molter, to take the vissels from thence to
Smyrna. The Lively, Ford, hail arrived at Smyrna from
Loiloh. The Tula and Nymph hail been with her in
Milo, and were proceeding direct to Constantinople. The
following vessels are reported outside the bay under convoy
of his Majesty's ship Rowley, VIZ. :—.lntelope, Aurora,
Eizabeth, Al.crt, and Gencrai Brock.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

' NOT,
.YEAR'S PiCSIMNT
kr Ackansans.

•.
AOpenling, by the magic of its name,
ToApatle bangs and affections, kept
Wink the beset like gold—L. E. L.
Amongst She many offerings made to the tenderest
affections of our nature, what an make a stronger impres-
sion than those cl.ntr,earlY, but luting remembrances which
affection pouts forth in the shape of Christmas anti New
Years' presents? How do we linger upon the memory. of
dear anti departed friends in the recollection and possession
of the relics of our earlier youth ! They remain by us,
and speak as a yoke from the tomb, urging us on to virtue
and happiness. The noblest sentiments of our nature are
encouraged, and dse Imaginary sorrows of the earlier part
of our lives lightened, by occasionally turning to the re-
, miniscentice aftrded us by those whose example has ceased
to operate, except as it is bowled to us in their works.
Age di age shell roll along
O'er this pale and mighty throng;
Those that wept them, those that weep,
All shall with thew iceePers sleep. •
Brothers, sisters, of the worm,
Summer's sun, or White's storm,
Song of peace, or bat de's roar,
Neer shall 'weak their slumbers- store.
Death shall keep his sullen trust-ts
•• Earth to.eastle sod dust lodes* !"
Croly's Dirge, vide Forget Me Not.
Norse the ties of early friendship lees strongly camented‘
by the interchange of such works as impart a Just know-
ledge of virtue, and of the ievaluable happiness remitting
from pure and ar
dfrieudship. 'Yews after years roll
away—she ciretrWs ' , like the sea one,
changer bat this arilig free early friend-
ship remains Indelji mpressed upon the heart.
The spirit et my boyish years
Back to my heart rekindling ame,
Ere lore's bn,;ht torch was ryneneh'd by tears,
Or pleasure proved on empty name.
I saw thee as I knew thee first,
%f-hen, flashing on my raptured mind,
The glory of thine image burst
Like seraph mixed with womankind.
And then I felt how years of cloud
?lad come than sunny time!. between,
When heaven was wrapt as io a ►hroutl,
And darkness veil'd earth's pastures green.
Thy bosom hawed. and I forgot
All fancied wrongs that sigh to thee,
While every woe that diattn'd my lot
Soeued vanialed when I grid on thee.
Dream or Youth—Forget Me Not.
The title of Forget me 21a, affixed to this work, most
aptly conveys, in three porde, that which would be unne-
cessary to impress in the form of a volume, but as impart-
ing, through the medium of a selection of original prose
and poetic pieces, many examples of happiness resulting
from the practice of virtue. Ihe pieces are no len than
90 in number, which pnrtakt• of the miscellaneous contri-
butions of Miss Lando!), known under the signature of
L. E. L. ; the Rev. George Croly, Delta, also known as a
valuable contributor to many periodicals, under the signa-
ture of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet ; D. L.
Richardson, Mrs. Renege's, John Bewring, Esq., Miss
Mitford, Mrs. llemans, ‘V.lleklarrison, Esq., the Rev.‘V.
L. Bowles, Dr. Booker, David Lyndsay, Miss longer, and
various other names well known for talent in the literary
world. The graphic illustrations are of the first character,
both as regards design as well'as execution, embracing the
first names in either department of the Arts. Of figures, the
finest plates are those of" First Lore," " Love and Duty,"
" Maria de 'l'orguematla," and " Sir Roger de Coverley in
Love," while in landscape Owen's pictnre,reduceel to the size
of this volume, of Dover Harbour, is the perfection of An.
There are also some beautiful architectural specimens, of
which character arc part of ";a Marc's Cborch, Venice,"
the " ilonument at Verona," and the !‘ Dungeons of
Chilton." The letter-press extends to 4.16' pages, and the
type is of a most admirable character, as perfect and as clear
as if formed of silver, and founded by even Baskerville him-
self.
The whole forms a beautiful pocket volurne,the general
arrangement and getting up of.whicli is an admirable speci-
men of the happy climax se-*high this part of the Art has
attained in England, and does Afr.- Ackermann the greatest
credit.
On the fielder Waterloo, what is the monument _that
recalis the remembrance of at‘rtid'glory ? The beauti-
ful flower of "F'orget trtemot. ' What fond remembances
hang around the ornatrtental graves in finny parts of Eng-
land, and of Pere-la-Chaise. and the. burial grounds of
France ? Forget we not I Su this little work, in the progress I
of events, and in the march of time, will remain a tne-
'tient° of friendship and of love, and recall the fond re-
collections of relations and of friends departed from this
:cage of existence for another and a better world. `So
The shades of evening veil the lofty spins
Of proud Benarcs'fanes ; a twilight Mlze
The calm scene shrouds; the weary boatmen raise
Along the dusky shore their crimson fires,
That tinge the circling groups. As day retires,
The lone and lung-deserted maiden strays
By Ganre's stream where flora the feeble rays
Of her pale lamp—b:st to ! the light expires !
Alas! how cheerless now the mourner's breast,
For life had) not a chant—her tears deplore
The fund youth's early doom, and never more
Shall hope's sweet visions yield lit r spirit rest.
The cold wave quenched the Name—an omen dread;
The Brahmin dare rot question lie is dead.
Far off, however, be such anticipations, for, though they
must be realized at last, each year that intervenes will only
add another blossom to the beautiful flower of " Forget
me Not."

We under:trawl that the long•promised romance, Paul
Jones, by Allan Cunningham, the admired Scottish poet,
is on the eve of publication.
Dov Le, Fnanav Eve xt NO.—Yesterday morning it was
expected the Hon. George Canning would atrive ; but al-
though, a vessel awaited him both at Calais and Boulogne,
he did not reach either place. ate of the packets brought
over a messenger from him, who immediately proceeded to
Wapner Castle, where Lord Liverpool is at present resid-
ing, and returned in the evening to set off for London by
the mail with despatches. To-day the packet, by which
he was expected, brought intelligence that a messenger had
arrived in the morning at Boulogne, giving orders to have
dinner provided for himseif and suite at seven o'clock this
evening; he will consequently be here to-morrow.
'T he extraordinary manner in which ;Newby, Huntley,
Williamson, and others, came down from London to take
possession of the 0:d llall and Thorneliffe Hall estates,
has lately exciatl pretty much of the public attention.
Their claim it not contiLed to these estates only, but ex-
tends to the property for miles around, which was repre-
sented to them by an e look
over it as worth 14.,'

it from very pod
that theirl t daring
without any unction,
since the year '

try their title in an)
derstand from those

they have not the
tates which they
orders of Jews at

the spoils, having
yost(l the (late of
title, and when 11.

. --
setms, hazarded all, upon a simultaneous movement, and
like the Israelites of old, come down to take possession of
the Promised Land. Mr. Hadfield, we have heard, has
received many attobymons letters, sometimes threatening,
sometions promising. an easy accommodation, which he has
always treated with silence and contempt.—Slockport
Adrerare?.

iVe understand that a number of watchmen, some say
fifty, were on Tuesday night taken from their ordinary
stations on the streets, and placed on a guard at the Lord
Provost's house, in Abereromby-place. Tice cause of alarm
has not transpired, and, in the mean time, the circumstance
has given rise to various rumours. Awing other surmises,
it is stated that tli:s precaution was adopreA in consequence
of the public dinner given at Leith.. This, however, we
do not coesider deserViog of credit. What possible alarm
could that Meeting excite? Could *it be for a moment
imagined that a Meeting of all the most respectable inha-
bitants in Leith, for a public object, could terminate in
any riot or outrage against the Chief Magistrate of Edin-
burgh? The supposition is too abburt: to be for a moment
cutertained

PORTSMOUTH, 0cz.28.
On Tema. ay the Sybille frigate, Capt. Sir Simnel /.
Peelle% Bart. and C.B. arrived from Malta in twenty-six
days, leaving there the Romney and Chanticleer. The
Talbot sailed on the 28th ult. to join Sir Harry Neale at
Smyrna. The Revenge, Rose, Medina, Pm-titian, and
Gannet, were in the Archipelago ; the Cambrian, Seringa-
patam, and. Ariadoe, at Corfu. Lord Cochrane, who had
been some time cruising off Malta in the Unicorn schooner,
under the name of Mr. Campbell Blair,, holding a written
communication only with a Mr. Stevenson, at the island,
had taken his departure for Marseilles. The Sybille, !pre-
vious to her arrival at Malta, was at Alexandria, on the
coast of Syria, and at the loniin Islands, where she
learnt that things between the Turks and Greeks were
much in the same state as they had been for some time.
The Medina had captured u pirate brig, and sent her into
Malta. The Sybille passed Gibraltar on the 12th inst.
She came into harbour this afternoon, to be paid off, and
kept in a state of readiness to be recotnmiesioned.
A letter from Santa Cruz, dated September 27, states the
arrival of the Heron, 18, Capt. Tait, on her passage to Rio
Janei•o—forty-two days from Spithead, and twenty-three
from off Madeira.
The Eapiegle, 18, Capt. Yates,larrived at Jamaica, from
England, and sailed on the 2Stl July, with the Mail for
Vera Cruz.

The Alacrity, 10, Capt. Ceo. James Hope Johnstone, is
taking on board specie, of the new coinage, at the Tower,
for Gibraltar and Malta.
In announcing the arrival of his Majesty's ship Sytilk,
Capt. Sir S. J. Pechell, Bart front the Mediterranean, we
have satisfaction in alluding so the big% perfection itreenicit
naval gunnery ha been carried, bath in that ship and in
the Naiad, Captain the Hon. R. C. Spencer, lately from
the same station, between whiclitwo vesaeh there has al-
ways existed an honourable rivalry, highly creditable to
the officers of both ships; and it is with great satisfaction
we learn, that during the trials of skill which they have
had together, under very competent judges, no artillery on
shore could exceed their accuracy and precision. It must
be gratifying to the lovers of our country and our country's
bulwarks to know, that in these " piping times of peace'
zealous and scientific officers are found, who, during a
I short period of command, and with scarcely the possibility
of ever bringing their superior gunnery into play against
an enemy, or of its ever heing known beyond the limits of
their ships, spare no pains nor exertions to excel in a de-
partment of such vital importance, which has hitherto
been much neglected, and which still appears to many in
command not worth the trouble, if it could be attained,
during a triennial service. Probably we may be permitted I
to recommend young carers to make themselves familiar
with the detail of discipline and internal economy, as well
as gunnery, of these two well-organised ships, which we
can safely say, from every thing that has come to our
knowledge, have never been exceeded in the best periods
of our naval annals, and this too has been attained by a
system of leniency and indulgence to the ran, which is
usually considered incompatible with the high condition
in which those best acquainted with their order allow them
to excel.

On Tuesday the schooner George Canning, and smack
Peace, from Denis and Malaga, arrived at the Motherbank,
with fruit for Southampton.
Yesterday afternoon, the Pelican, 18, Captain HAL.
Chu. Irby, sailed for die Mediterranean station.
On Wednesday the Vigilant, Lieutenant Meredith, re-
turned to Plymouth ; on Thursday the Arrow, Lieutenant
Brooking, sailed on a cruise. At Spitheal—Blonde, Py-
ramus and Galatea. In the Harbour—Victory, Asia,
Melville, Spartiate, Diamond, Sybille,llattmouth, Arachne,
Clieker, and Cracker.
The Russian ships of war Moller, Captain Stanjy-
kbwitch, and Seniavin, Captain Litke, will sail in the
course of the ensuing week. These ships, as well as
being destined to visit and convey supplies to the Rus- :
sian settlements, are intended also to make a more assn-'
rate sirvey of the coasts of the Russian empire on the
Pacific Ocean, and for discovery in the Southern part
of that great ocean. To Captain Stanjy-kowitch is as-
signed the task of surveying the North West coast of
Aulericasnal the Aleutian Islands; and to Capt. Litke
the entity Eastern coast of Asia, as far as may be found
prictieshle. Both ditps art prcrvideck with physicians, na-
luralists, and draughtsmen. They are to touch at the
Canary Islands, and Rio Janeiro. After a short stay at
the latter place, they are to double Cape Horn, and to visit
the Society Islands, especially Otaheite, and thence to steer
Northwards to the Sandwich Islands. They then go to
Sitka, the settlement of the Russian North American Com-
pany, where they are to leave putt of their cargo. Here
the two ships will separate. Captain Litke, after a short
stay at Oonalashka, will proceed to Behring's Straits,where
his hydrographical operations are to commence. The coasts
of Kamadiatka are to be explored in July and August,
about which latter time the Seniavin will arrive in the har-
bour of St Peter and St. Paul. The winter of 1827 and
1826 will be devoted to the Caroline Islands. The sum-
mer of 1828 is to be employed in the survey of the tea
Otchosk. The ships will pass the winter of 1824 and 18'29
in the Southern half of the Southern Ocean, thence pass
by Solotnon's Islands, and thu whole Archipelago of
the Molucca Islands, and return to Europe by the Cape of
Good Hope.
On iVednesday the Numa transport, Lieutenant Went-
worth, Agent, arrived from the Mediterranean. She sailed
from Corfu July 22; Malta August 17 ; and Gibraltar
September 26. There came passengers, Captain Henry,
lonian Militia ; Captain and Mrs. Blakeney, and two
children, 3oth regiment ; Lieutenant Fitzroy, 88th regi-
ment ; and Lieutenant Read, Royal Staff Corps. 1710f11
Malta, Major Gow, unattached ; Lieutenant and Mrs. Ro-
gers, and two children, Royal Artillery ; Surgeon and
Mrs. Hudson, 94th foot. From Gibraltar, Dr. Dix, Staff
Assistant-Surgeon.
The following ships have put into this port :—George
Hibberts, Drysdale, for Antigua, to embark the lady and
family of Governor Roes. for Antigua ; William Manning,
Smith, for St. Kites • Madeira Packet, Williams, for Sid-
ney, New South %Vaes ; Carl Johan, Grid, from Gotten-
burgh, for South America; Maria, Wilson, for Batavia
and S!rigapore ; and Two Brothers, Gibbens, for St.
Sebastian.

The Thetis, 46, is re-commissioned at Plymouth ;
and the Arachne, is, at this port. Lieutenant C. J.
Nash is appointed to the Thetis, and Lieutenant Johnes to
the Arachne.

Captain Peter Richard is appointed to the Pelorus (and
goes out in the Cainelion, to join her); Lieut. Hun Alt, to
the new cutter Cracker; Lieut. T. H. Holman, to the Coast
lwanage.
T. 26—Arrived, on Saturday, the Rey-
(tender to the Genoa), with despatches
Madrid and Lisbon—fifteen days trotn
Leveret, Lieut. Barker, with seamen,
,sed-the Petorug, IS, apt. Chas. tin-
!terminal) ; the Catnelion, 10, Capt. P.
to-morrow, for the same station. Also
Muiine, Lieut. Puwle, and Sheldrake,
'elmouth. . The Forte, 46, Capt. J. Cogh-
to sail to-morrow with sealed orders.
Windsor Castle, Thetis, Forte, Ca•

L..vcret, Sprightl7.

alteration respecting the state of the cotton
works since last notice. One mill at Port Dundas recom-
menced work on Tuesday at the reduced rate. Mr. M‘La-
ren's mill, Gallowgate, is going on with six spinners, and
the usual subordinate department, at the terms he chooses
to employ them on. The applications for employment to
the proprietors of cotton-works in this vicinity, by the
weavers and spinners unconnected with the combination,
continue numerous; but as yet, such is the state of trade,
that they prefer keeping their works shut, rather than
venttire on resumption with present prospects.—Glurginv
Chronicle.
laxi.aran.—The Irish papers state that the Duc de
Montebello has recently visited the delightful scenery of
the lakes of Killarney, and the liver and harbour of Cork,
and several other objects, which render the Routh of Ire-
land interesting to a foreigner. A Catholic Clergyman
has been charged with the disgraceful offence of attempting
to destroy a parcel of Bibles and Prayer-books in the gaol
of Roscommon. Mr. Hamilton (the unsuccessful Candi-
date at the last Dublin election),is preparing a petition for
presentation to Parliament against the return of Colonel
White.

• InC new cutter i....raciii
yan agent who was scut expressly to look Guard station et Swa
40,000/. per annum. We have to state n
, I.YMOUTII, OCT.
A authority, to prevent misrepresentation,
Hard, Lieut. Worth (
ring and outrageous attem t was made
nction, or form of law wl itever ; that °tlfieliTnrtritaa.licaerfr 0111.2
1
1815, when they filed a II in Equity, iing's,ooZ..4soi''''
r.1641"1"4ny court of law. s'ton, for the Aleclite
RiCharda, will sail to
We arc also led to un-ow IJ:A acluainted with the affair, tuat aailcd the Packets AI
le shadow qv. tide to any p'art of the es- Licut. Lie, for Faint,
pretend to cb,ditfi.• A number of the lopped', lan, C.B. is expected
and -others equally dtsirous of sharing in. Remain—Britannia
lig got possessiou of some olzolete papers •ffieliott, Reynard, 1:e•
of 16so, framed from them a fictitious
this would not avail in law, they have, it niece is little alter