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London, England, 1821-09-15 00:00:00

then received from all parts of the kingdom cer-
tainly bore • very despontlin character. Later
accounts, however, offer better holes; yet the corn
markets still maintain their high prices, and the
supposed probability of even a further rise has op--
, rated injuriously upua.ltlu Sio ck.Fmcistuarps.
anincliesitione me entertained that the ports
will be opened for the importation of foreign corn
for the home reuveliption, and that Der gOl,l
coinage will be.rspidly drawn stet, of the cosietry.
The apprehensions of a very deficient Wrest,
if they lie strongly felt in the even mittltet..'
will, no doubt, produce an srtificisi want for so L.,
short time, and the Mill laws will be thew',
brought into action ; bet to SU/IWOe That in inf.
portation of grain for the home consumption of •rs
inconsiderable an amoent as easy be required
compensate for our own deficiency. could pro tuee
1411 impression upon cur metallic currency of
et I ious nature, argues very little knowledge of the"
opr net ions or commerce, anti of the cause. that ac-
tually affect the circulating median of • country.
The Stale of the homiest throughout England
owl Scotland, although inferior to %lad it was in
the last year or the year preceding, is ykt owls
better titan was anticipated about a fortnight or
three weeks since. The grain, though small, is
abundant, and if it be brought into the market
freely, there is enough to keep down the prices be.
low the aveiitgis specified in the Art of Parlia-
ment. The harmers and traders will probably feel
the advantage of ut t hoardi:ig it, as by doing so
they wit! evciattmlly injure their sale by admitting
forrigis produce to compete with them in their own
markets.

The uncertain state of the harvest weather, nal
the consequent probability that the money in the
market would be employed in corn speculations,
has had its operation in depressing the fonds with-
in the lest. few days. They sufkred a further fdlt
yesterday.

Sir ROBERT BAKER resigned 114 Pittliiioo as
Chief Magistrate of the Police of the Metre-
polis on Wednesday last, tool on the following day
Mr. BIRNIC was appointed by Lord SIDIIOUTH to
succeed him. To those who have observed the
temper and spirit of the present Ministers, who
have noticed their jeslousy of power and the little.
ness of mind with which they have at all times
resented the offence of presuming to question the
infallibility of their judgment, this piece of intelli.
genre will occasion no surprise. Men who could so
far forget eve' y feeling of decency as to deprive Earl
FITZWILLIAM of the Lieuienstitcy of the Wert
Riding, for having ventured to doubt the wisdom
of the Magistrates of Manchester; who were guilty
of a flagrant attempt to undermine the independence
of the !louse of Commons, by removing the Earl of
FITE from the Bedchamber, because he had the
temerity to vote in favour of economy; could not
be expected to pats over the conduct of Sir
1101111111 T BAUM in suffering the funeral pro.
cession of the QUEEN to pass through the in-
terdicted route of the City of London. Lord
SIDMOUTII has often been called a" humane inan;"
we will, theiefore, put it to his boasted humanity,
whether an adherence to a certain route in a matte►
which to the Government of the country must have
been one of utter indiffereuce, was to be placed in com-
petition with the life or limbs of the poorest man iii
London ? The experience of the combat at Cum.
berhind-gate must have impressed Sir R. BAKER
with the firm assurance that per►everance in the
original plan must have been attended with the loss
of many lives; he saw that the soldiers were not
competent to resist • mob within narrow streets;
that they, therefore, must undoubtedly have been
sacrificed ; that many of the multitude must have
been killed; that the lives of all the persons form-
ing the procersion, many of whom were of rank
and estimation, were placed in the utmost danger;
and ar a man of humanity, as a Magistrate bound
to protect the lives, and property of the inhabi-
touts of the metropolis from the danger of a
violent commotion, he yielded to circumstances
which, without the sacrifice of important iuteresP,
he could not control. Nothing short of 'the use of
artillery could have cleared the streets of the impe-
diments raised by the multitude ; and we think
that even Lord SIDIKOUTII or Lord Livearoo►.
would not desire to purchase the glory of a triumph
over the people of Lundou by the employment tat
artillery in their streets.

Yesterday morning his Serene Highness the
reigning Duke of SaitE•lllElW I NUNN. accompanied
by Boron BAUKBACH, Boron FIOREZE. •ud Ltrul.
EDWARD HALL. R.N. left town ism Franco,

The worthy Recorder of Rochester, A. IgPoar,
Esq. has rebigned his situation. Mr. Massy/is.
nephew to the Earl of ROMNEY. and heiwii.r-
-I.•ND. of London, are the candidates to ottece,,l
Mr. MOOgE.
Geographical and Nautical sagacity of the Cot-
rier, illustrated in the following extract from that
Paper, of last night :—" Our letters from Milford.
Bridnl, Plymouth, arm Portsmouth, giving no 8.-
count of his hlaaasrx's appearance, we mud con-
clude that the royal squadron in its attempt to
brat round the Land's End has stood over to the
Irish shore ; and if the weather was as tempestour
on that slime aa at was here on Wednesday, No
MAJESTY would perhaps be obliged to put into
Cork harbour. No doubt, however, can exist, that
whether the squadron went into Cork, or only mood
well over towards die Irish coast, it will, with the
prevailing winds, be able to weather the Lod
Lid, and it may be hoped that his MAJESTIC s
arrival at Poriantowa will very mpg be an.
uouuced" !!!!