The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-26 00:00:00

MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, MARCH Ti.
The supplies this week consist of 4,650 sacks Flour, 3,366 quar-
ters Wheat, 4,100 quarters Barley, and 3,11i0 quarters Oats. Fine
Wheat wa' ready sale at prices quite equal to Monday, but there
was scarcely any inquiry for inferior sorts. Barley continues very
heavy sale, but in the little business done to-day we have not to
note any variation in the quotations of Monday. The small sup-
ply of Oats induced holders to demand an advance on Monday's
currency, but in very few inwtances uss any obtained; the business
transacted was very inconsiderable. There was nA Alternation in
prices of Beans, Peas, Linseed or Rapeseed. Bathli'ednesdirand
this morning there has been some speculative inquiry tor Wheat in
bond, it is presumed in anticipation of some alteration taking place
in the Corn Laws.

(From the London New Price Current of Friday, March 251
COTTON—The purchases of Cotton reported this work are in-
considerable, d the market was rather dull till this forenoon, when
accounts front Liverpool produced a renewal in the demand. At
that paltaillSial laggArepe .old orklYednesday at an advance of
id. a id. per lb. on the3rlbto-of llli preceding week. Tliii holders
here are. in consequence, asking higher prices.
SUGAR.—The demand for ltluscovades during the week has
been very limited, and the tew sales reported are at prices Is. lower;
brown Jamaica 66.. a 675. ; St. Lucia and other low browns 84.:.
The Reined market has become steady, and the currency estab-
lished ; low lumps 83s. a 84.. with the appearance of some firmness;
Molasses this forenoon 33.. In F.:reign Sugars there are tew pur-
chases reported by private contract : By public sale on Tuesday,
336 chests Brazil Sugar (Rios), brown and yellow, strong dry, 325.
a 335. 6d.: gray, 331.; white, good. 41s. a tlis. The inquiries after
Brazil and Bettrbon Sugars are very general, and the holders arc
asking higher prices, but no actual sales of any extent are yet
reported.
COFFEE..—The Coffee market appears reviving, owing to the
few public sales lately brought torward. At the close of the mar-
ket this afternoon St. Domingo was reported sold at 765. and the
same price refused for another parcel ; we quote the price 735.
a 23e.

TALLOW and HERlP.—There has been little doing in Tal_
low lately 4 the new is to-day 40s. a Ws. 6d. Hemp nommaby
urns as oo Tuesday, 421.
RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS—The Spirit market
remains in the same Isnguid state which we have lately reported ;
proof Leeward* nominally Is. led. In Brandy or Geneva there
are no sales reported.
FRUIT.—A public sale wu attempted on Thursday., at which
scarcely any thing appeared ro he sold New Valentin /Lilacs
taken in at SM.; blunstells (bench) boxes halves, and quarters
14 to CI : Blooms 6fis. to 110 s.; lA'Xit Raisins all out.
Tapoets Faro rip 425. to 43a; -ferment Faro Raisins 345. I Old
Denia Raisins 23*.; in New Red Smyrna Raisins there hns been
some large parcels *old at the lowest quotations ; all the
Currants in the market have been bought up at the prices quoted,
which is an advance of Is. to 2s. per cwr.
SPICES.—The market is rather heavy, and the quotations
' mostly nominal; Nutmegs Ils. 6d. a 91.; light Pepper Cid. a 7ld.
IRISH PROVISIONS.—In Bee or Pork there Is no variatior. ;
Baton is dull. Carlow Butter 1045., Wear ford 265.
OILS.—In Oils there is no alteration.
DYE-WOODS.—The prices are catirely nominal ; the buld;:rs
will not sell in the peewit languid max of the trade.
SALTPETRE.--At a public sale of-Saltpetre its. was refused ;
the whule was taken la.

BRITISH STONE AND SLATE COMPANY.—
No further Applications for Shares can be received. Sur-
veyors are now engaged in surveying stone and slate quarries;
after their report the Shares will be appropriated, and the names of
the Directors and Oscers advertised.
All communications .1 be addressed to David Icing, Esq. at the
OfEee of the Company, 22, Lincoln's Inn-fields; or to Mama
Andertun and Williams, Solicitors, Quality-court, Chancery-lane.
SAMUEL ROBERTS, Secretary.

'.iVEW ZEALAND COMPANY.
On Wednesday the 23d Instant, a most respectable Meet-
ing, oonsisting of Members of Parlhunent, Merchants, and Ship-
owngrs, was hoiden at the King's Head, Poultry, when an AS-
SOCIATION was formed for originating COMMERCIAL
ESTABLISHMENTS in the Islands of NEW ZEALAND.
Treasurers. Curtis, Robarts. and Curtis, Lombard-street; and
Rogers, Towgood, and Co. Clement's-lane.

PERUVIAN MINING COMPANY*
Notice is hcreby given that the DEED for the Regulation or
this Company will lie for Signature at the Banking-house of Mews'
Frys and Chapman, St. Mildred's-court. in the City of London,
for Twenty-one Days. from MONDAY next, the 28th instant
Month of March, within which time the Subscribers are requested
to attend and execute the mime, and receive Certificates u Share-
holders, in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, or their Shares will
be forfeited.
By order of the Directors.
March •J'2, 1821. JAMES JENKINS, Sec.

ENGLISH and BRISTOL CHANNELS SHIP
CANAL.

—.....--.
A GENERAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to the
PROPOSED SHIP CANAL between the ENGLISH and
BRISTOL CHANNELS will be holden THIS DAV, the
26th of March instant, at the London Coffee House, Ludgate-
hill, at Twelve o'Clock, for the purpose of receiving a Report from
the Committee of the present favourable state of their Proceedings
in the prosecution of the .Measure, and to consider the propriety of
completing the Negociation between the Bridgewater and Taunton
Canal Company snd this Committee.
• The Chair will 5e taken at One o'Clock precisely.
By order of the Committee.
KING sad LUKIN, 5. Can Inn•square•
N.B. Subscribers are requested to bring their Scrips.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
Established by Royal charts'r in the Reign of King George

the First.

March, 1825.
Persona whose Annual Premiums fall due on the 25th instant
are hereby informed, that Receipts are now ready to be delivered at
the Company's Offices, over the Royal Exchange and in Pall-mall,
as well as by their respective Agents in the several counties; and
the Parties A ssurrd are requested to apply for the Renewal of their
Policies on or before the 9th of April next, as the usual Fifteen
Days allowed for Payment, beyond the Date of each Policy, will
thee expire.
SAMUEL PENNING. Jun. Secretary.
0,,* Attendance is given daily at the said Offices for the Amine-
ance of Buildings, Hoods, Merchandises, and Ships in Harbour.
in Dock. or while building, from Loss or Damage by Fire ; and
also for the Assurance of and granting Annuities on Lives.
N.B.—Fire Policies will be issued free of Expense to the As-
sured, where the Annual Premium amounts to es. or upwards.

HACKNEYsTCOAcg El/EXAM/MET,
A 22, lb'

Whereas the following Articles., Matters, and Things have, at
the days and times get opposite to each, been deposited at this Of-
hex by Hackney Coachmen (who found the same in their Coaches
or Chariots), pursuant to the directions of a certain Act of Parlia-
ment. made and mimed in the 35th of the Reign of his late Majesty,
cap. 159 :—Notice is hereby given, that unless the same Articles,
Bloaters, and Things be claimed and described by the respective
owners within one calendar month from the date hereof, the same
will be sold to pay expenses, and the balance of the produce of sale
delivered to the several Hackney Coachmen who deposited the same
at this Office, as by law is authorised and directed.
A
(SI.I ST igned)
OF A JARTICLES. 3IES QUAFE, Clerk, &c.
When Descriptioc of When
deposited. Property. deposited,
1824. 11124.
Writing desk -23 d March 7th Oct.
Cat steel ornaments 25th . 13th
Great coat and hand- 13th
kerchief - 3d April
Shawl - - 3d
Cloth pelkse . 13th
Gold snuff-bee -22 d
limde book - 224
to
. - 27th
Parasol let :May
Umbrella - 7th
Ditto - 26th
Papers. &c. - 27th
Gold snuf-box .'Bth
Parasol . 29th
Gold seals, &c. 3d Juts
Parasol 6th
Pair horse clfrhit 7th
Purse, containing
money . - 19th
Ivory }an . 19th
Reticule 294
Large silk bag, re-
ticules, &c.
Black scarfa .
Great coat, snuffers
and stand - 26th
Parasol - nth
Ditto . .Itlth
Shawl . 10th July
Bead reticule - 13th
Steel purse - 13th
Umbrella - 16th
Snuff.box gold
mounted
Bunch of keys .
Parasol
Ditto -
Purse, containing
money 3d Aug.
Umbrella - 4th
Parasol - sth
Two umbrellas and
Parasol - 9th
Parasol - 12th
Blue coat . 14th
Shawl 14th
Books, 2 cols -1911 i
Green coat - 21st
Umbrella, sword-
stick, and walk-
ing ditto
Sabre
Folio of drawings,
music, &c. . 31st •
Telescope - 3d Sept.
Reticule . 7th
Prraeol 9:h
Umbrella - I I th
Parasol _ 14th
C4nibltt cloak - I iiih
Parasol - 224
Shawl
Knife and keys - 2::th
Great coat, &e. 27th
If. country note . 30th
Music Grammar 4th Oct.

Degeript ion of
Property.

Reticule -
Plaid cloak
Parasol
Spencer and Red.
cult - 18th
Prayer-book, &c. 25th
Pocket-book, &c. 2lhh
Umbrella . I st Nov.
Ditto 6th
Ditto . 10th
Classial Diction-
ary - 10th
11 etory of the Bible,
I vol. . 12th

Reticule - 13th
Drawing cue - 15th
Piwtol - 15.11
Homing whip loth
Cloth cloak - 211,11

Green book - 2d Dec.
Parasol. &c. - 3d
Mourning ring 7th
Cloth cap -
Small bluff . 10th
Packet of letters 10:It
Bunch of key, 18th
Foliogown of 31apv, &c. 2dth
Silk td
Scarf. -22 d
Umbrella -23 d
Great hand.
kerchief. &c - 27th
Silver snuff -box - 27th
31ufand umbrella 29:h
Map 3Uth
1823.
Lookirg.glass,B4c. 3d Jan.
Lady's cloak - 3.1
Parasol . 3d
Cloth boot - llth
Frock coat . 16:11

- 2241
23411

- 17th

23d
-23 d
-23 th

Bracelet ISth
Sealskin cap - 111th
Gun and case (two
double barrels) 19th
Cacib!et cloak 20•11
%calking stick - 21st
Umbrella - 21st
Camblet cloak 1. 24:h
Umbrella - 3.1 Fcb.
Fire irons 7th
Camblet cloak oth
Gee.ming case -
Medical book - 19th
Lady's cloak . 24th
Bunch of keys - 24th
An hydrometer 25th
Double.barrelltd
gun - sth March
Snuff-box - 7th
Pocket-book and 11.

-23 d
26th

country note - 9th
Greet coat - thh
Coffee biggin . V h
Folio of music 11th
loot. bank note 14th

N. B.—The Public are mini
the hours of tea sod three o'Cloci

ted to call at the °eke between

BARE AND VALUABLE BOOKS.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,

By Mr. EVANS.
At his House, No. 93, Parte:sat in MONDAY MCP, March
28, ond Three Following Days,
/11,.. COLLECTION of Rare and Valuable BOOKS,
and BOOKS of PRINTS; including Cabinet de Crow,
2 vols. large paper; Houghton Gallery, 2 vols.; Museo Pio Clc-
memino, 6 vols.; Museum Florentinum. 8 vols.; Houbraken's
IJeads ; Valentyn's Collection of Dutch Voyages. 8 vols. large
paper, rare; Braun, Civitatea Orbia Tetratunt, 6 vols. with the
scarce View of the Palace of Nonsuch ; curious Collection of old
English Voyages and Tracts; curious Collection of Italian and
Spanish Books; a I,vtel Boke that apeketh of Purgatory', a Poem,
excessively rare ; PAWL Galeria Ju Muse, Napoleon, 10 vols.
line impreesiona, incrocco; English Poets, 100 vols., with Sharpe's
plates, proofs, inserted, Ito.

(-1 and A. OLDRIDGE return their sincere thanks to
le is the Nobility, Ladies, and Gentlemen of Great Britain, for
the liberal encnuragonent given them in the sales of their BALM
of COLUMBIA, recently discovered and imported front Phila-
delphia. Its grand Chemical Virtuct are of ruch a nature that,
on either young or old, they will prevent the Hair from falling oil
in farty-eight hours front its first application ; it always causes the
young hair to appear, though the person be totally bald, in threw
weeks, and gen ?rally Fir:duces a full bead of hair on young mr.ons
in lefts than twenty weeks. It likewise prevents the hair from
turning grey. and restores it, though grey, to its original colour.
If the hair curls but a little, a few applications beautifully improves
it, making it of a brigiu glossy colour, and cleansing it from scurf.
N. B. One Bottle, price 3s. 6d., will prevent ti.e hair trona fall-
ing at: or cause Whiskers :o grow thick though there were none
on the parts. A bottle, price 65., wiil prevent the hair from fall.
ing from the head, and likewise make k new growth appear; and
one at 11a. gives, in general, a full head of hair to one that is young.
co.tpleatee will be showe, and references given, at their estab-
lishments, 351, Strand, London, and 12, Church-street,
Yorkshire. where deairrs may he supplied on reasonable terms;
and likewise at the following respectal.l.! Perfumers and others. in
I.ondon :—Messes. Barclay alid Suns, Fleet market ; Messrs. Hill,
No. 84, Cheapaide; Loiter-1% 4, Bridge-street, Westminster; and
Colly, 28, and Barber. 43, Hishopagsie
Any Lady or Gentleman whose hair is falling off, and doubts
the virtue of the Balm of Colombia, may have their hair staid
aeatls,„by applying at C. and A. Oldridges Establishments, be
I the hours of el!!! and ten any morning (Sundays excepted).

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TROPICAL FREE-LABOUR COMPANY.—.
CAPITAL—X.4,OOO,OOC
PRESIDENT.
His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
William Wilberforce, Esq. Steph. Lushingtem, E q. H.O L.
Right Hon. Lord Caltborpe M.P.
Thomas Babington, Esq. William Smith, Esq. M.P.
Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. James Stephen, Esq.
Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq. Daniel by_ltee, Esq. M.P.
M.P. W. W. Whitmore, Esq. M.P,
William Evans, Esq.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
William Allen, Esq. G. G. Larpent, Esq.
T. 0. Babington, Esq. Z. Macaulay, Esq.
0. G. Babington Esq. Henry Pownall, Esq.
Edward Carroll, Lsq. W. Ir. Reynolds, Eta
James Cropper, Esq. Anthony Robinson, .
Henry Ihutilniond, Esq. Thomas Sturge, Jun. q.
William Fry. Esq. I Joseph Truentan, Esq.
Lake Howard, Esq. Henry Weymouth, EMI.
RANKERS.
Sit P. Pole, Bart. Thornton, Free, Down. and Scott, Bartholo•
mew-lane; and Messrs. Drutnmund and Co. Charing-cross.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Tilson and Preston, 210, Coleman-street.
SECRETART.
John Dougan, Esq. 18, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, t
whom all communications and applications for Shares tray be
addressed.
The object of this Company is to promote, within the British
Dominions, the growth of the severd articles of Tropical Prucluc.
don by means of Free Labour.
With respect to Indigo, this object has been already accom-
plished. It was once produced solely by the labour of slaves in the
West Indies and America. In consequence of the application of
British skill and capital to its production, nearly the whole of that
article which is now consumed in Europe, amounting in value to
about Four Millions Sterling, is raised by free labonr, and alines&
entirely in British India.
A simi ar effect might have been expected with respect to Cotton,
had the same means been employed in the saute quarter to extend
Its culture and to improve its quality. This, however, has not
been done; and therefore the ('otton Trade of our Asiatic Domi-
nions continues to labour under many disadvantages. Such,
nevertheless, was the impulse given to the importation of Last
India Cotton, on the opening of the trade with that country, that
in a few sears its price throughout the world was reduced to nearly
half its former an ti
(Ni this extratodtitary fall of price, the Cotton of India, which
is of the lowest quality, vris neglected, and no further attention
was paid, by Europtaha, either to its culture or to the improve-
ment of its stsple. Had a contrary course been pursued, it cannot
be doubted that the present alarming increase in the price of that
article might have been prevented. It is now the more important
to provide an effectual remedy for such an inconvenience, and fur
this India seems to hold out the only certain and permanent re-
source.
The official value of the Cotton Goods exported from Great Bri.
rain in 1C24, amounts to a aunt exceeding thirty millions sterling.
The continued and progressive prosperity, therefore, of the vast in-
terests which are connected with our Cotton manufactures, and
which obviously involve most deeply the interests of the ration at
large, requires that a vigorous effort should be made to enlarge the
imputation from British India of f'ottoti Wool of superior quality,
if possible, to any which is now grown there. Without such an
effort our manufacture!. sire likely to be reduced to very serious dif.
&tildes from that enhanced price of this indispensable article,
which must be the effect of an increasing consumption without •
corresponding increase In the supply ; while a new impulse will be
given to the extensi in of the Slave Trade and Slavery in the pos.
sessions of foreign nations.
It will not be denied that moth may be done by an Association
like the present to counteract these evils, by stimulating the in-
creased growth of Cotton in India, and by facilitating and encou-
raging the substitution of superior descriptions of that article for
the low and comparatively worthless kinds which are now grown
there. To this truly national object the attention of the Tropical
Free-labour Company will be particularly directed.
Another main purpose for which this Company has been formed
is, to promote the production of Sugar by free laboUr.
The British Dominions in Asia are well adapted to the growth of
this article, and are capable of supplying it to an indefinite extent ;
but from the unskilfulness of the natives in the process of mom-
facturing it, combined with their want of capital and the fiscal
strictions to which it it subject, little progress has hitherto becu
made in introducing the Sugar of that put of the world into general
consumption. If effectual niearis, however, were adopted of ob-
viating these disadvantakee, the Sugar Trade of British India
could not fail rapidly,to lisp-tease.
The requisite oritelriS to' this ehd have been folly pointed out in
a small pamphlet published by Ilatchard, and entitled " East
India Sugar; or, an Intuiry respecting the means of improving
the Quality and eedueing the Cost of Sugar raised by Free Labour
in the East Indies.",,Thst Statements contained in it are taken front
authentic document% 4.fflcAtly furnished to the East India Com-
psay,and by them Wet before the public. That East India Sugar tray
be made a profitable article of culture, even under all the disad-
vantages with which it has to contend, no one, who candidly ex. .
amines the evidence 'there' produced, will doubt. %ilia& is chiefy
required is, that British intelligence and British capital should be
cmployed to 07z:lee and a right direction to the industry of
, the natives--by rig the more extensive cultivation or Sugar
I—by improving the mode and lessening the ex fence Of its manufac.
ture—and by thus genevallintisiog its quality s.ed diminishing its
coat, so as to render it an article of mere enlarged and more be-
neficial commsrcial intercourse with our Asiatic possess:oils than it
is at present.
The Tropical Free. Labour Company proposes, therefore, to direct
a large share of its -attention to the objects of promotirg the cold-
ration and manufacture-of Sugar ity Free Labour in British India,
and by facilitating its -admiseion into general use, not only in the
United Kingdom but in all other parts of the world. The will
be 'chiefly effected by introducing into India improved modes of
manufacture; and by making such safe and judicious advances to
the manufacturers, end, through them, to the cultivators of the
soil, as may be necessary to promote the increase of prodnetioo.
Such advances as may be made from year to year, with the
view of promoting the growth or manufacture of Sugar, or of any
other article of tropical growth, will be annually liquidated by the
consignment of the produce thus rais,ril to the Company, whose
profits will arise from the usual etamitiseions on the sale of such
produce, and the interest chargeable on its advances,
The course which it is intended to pursue in this respect has
had the sanction of lengthened experience. It is precisely that
course which has been uniformly pursued in similar courses by the
East India Company, and by the capitalists of British India; and
which has already proved so signally successful in promoting the
cultivation of indigo, and in otherwise developing the faculties of
that vast and fertile region.
. _ _

Proceeding on the data already referred to, and which stand fully
confirmed by other satisfactory testimony, it appears that the whole
advance which can be required for the production. for example, of
a ton of Sugar, would be from twelve to about fifteen or sixteen
pounds, even on the toippcsition, which is a very improbable ea,
that the manufacturer possessed no fun3s of his own. To ensure,
therefore, the production of 10.000 tons of Sugar annually, the ut-
most advance that could be required would not exceed 160,0001.
And it is obvious, that, if the success of the Company should lie
such an 111 AT fairly be expected, it would be possible greatly to en-
large its efforts. An additional supply of 10.000 tons of Sugar
might be raised by every fresh advance of 160,0001.; until a suth-
tient amount of capital should be employed fully to meet that
growing (Mound for Sugar which may be anticipated from the
combined effect of the diminiehed cost of its production and the in-
among prosperity of the empire.
The advantage which would accrue to the commercial interests
of Great Britain, and still more of Ireland, by the extensive crea-
tion of fresh means of malting returns, to meet the rapidly increas-
ing demand of our mar.ufactores on the part of the immense popu-
lation of British India —to say nothing of the benefits which would
thus be conferred on that population—is too obvious to need to be
infsitheee d
schemeon. But
it t powerful recommendation
should succeed, it must
eventually trod to extinguish Slavery in Foreign an well as in Bri.
multitudes, ant
W that,the sas
if it
o
de" Colonies; and to put a final period to the Foreign Slave-Node,
which still prevails at the coast of Africa.
Although the preceding statements have an especial reference to
British India, yet the Tropical Free-Labour Company does not in-
tend to confine ite rows to that quaver, but to extend them, as
Mr openings may occur, to the British dominions in other parts of
the world, and particularly to Africa and the West indica.
The capital of th- Tropical Frett•Labour Company is fixed. for
the present, at Four Millions of Pounds Sterling, to be divided into
eighty thottaand shires of fifty pounds each.
The conduct of its affairs will be entrusted to a Board of Direr.
tors in London, to be eloaen by the Subscribers; but at each o:
the Out poem of the United 1/ineom, where subscriptions shall be
received to the amount of 100,0001.. a Subsidiary Board will be ap-
pointed, to receive consignments and effect sales at such port. In
the mean time, a Pros isional Committee has been named, for the
purpose of carrying into effect the propose plan : and to them it is
left to sake the necesamy measures for legally constituting the (10m-
pany ; to franc laws arid regulations for its government ; to collect
further information; to establish agencies; and otherwise to pro-
mote the objects contemplated by tire present prospectus.
To enable the Committee effectually to prosecute these objects,
the sum of one ponied per sham will be required to be paid by the
Subscribers to one er ether of the Bankers named above, as soon as
they shall have received notice of the shares that have been appro.
printed to tham.
When the Board of Directors shall have been chosen, they shall
beat liberty to make further calis on the Subscribers, as ctrcum.
&mem may require, to the amount, in ail, of ten per rent., or five
pounds per shore of the capital subscribed. But, before any call
beys.od ten fun cent. shall he made, the Direciors mur
rised to du so by a General Meeting in London, sr
mooed for the porpoise., on a day of which four week
be e:yett ; brute whirli Meeting the Dircetors shall
of tine state and proems; of the Company's affairs.
The Sharon of this Company will not be '-
the consent of the Directors.

1i!(1111 WATRR THIS DAY AT I.ONI
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