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ta revenue.. Th, re arc Three :al.ibitioaa of the value of MI. per
Tlniiin each, for schol.,r. Flom dila school to Chrkl Church,
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bition must haec ban two years and a half at the school previous
to election. The txtlibci,..,4 are tenable for sever years ; but if
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ailowed 211. per anntim for the remaining three years. The present
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&is of the Curpomtion m.f t' c Burough.
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SILK 7'1L41.)147.

TO TIIC EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

SlR—May I heg Ir,re, through the medium of your
Paper, to offer some explatiation of the fact stated by the
Piesident of the ltuatii of Trade in his reply to our me•
mortal of the I ttli ult., and to the letter of the Mayor,
which acconilsmied it ? The depressed state of the weavers
an' silk dyers of Mace is admitted, but Mr. ilus-
kisson, in his letter. states that " in the judgment of this
Board, the prt.sint depression of prices, and stagnation in
the silk trade, arc mainly to be ascribed to other causes
than the passing of the .li.t of the Simision before the last;
and among these causes, in no small degree to the extra-
vagant speculations in the raw material, and to the very
unusual exertions mule in many parts of the kingdom, hut
more especially at Alacclestield, rapidly to increase the
manufacturing establishments, and the number of hands
engaged in them ; speculations entered into, and exertions
made, since the passim, of the law for the admission of

foreign wrought ;Us, said when this change must have
hen as much within the knowledge and contemplation of
the parties as it is at this moment." Now 1 am free to
simit that this does require explanation. It certainly does
ae m very inconsistent on our part, that being aware that
a law was passed to introduce wrought silks into Great Bri-
tain on the .;th July, I's on payment of 30 per cent.
du•y, that we should lay in a heavy stock of raw silk and
enlarge our establishments, and nowcotnplain of the dread-
ful consequences to the trade of this legislative enactment,
cilia h we knew would come into operation at the time
staid. The charge is brought ktainst us with a great ap-
pearance of justice ; but a candid statement of the truth
will show that it is one, in appearance, and not in reality,
that we are to be blamed. When this law was passed, it
was strongly maintained in Parlia.nent by those who
brought it forward, that it would be extremely beneficial
to the silk trade, and we ourselves, many of us, concurred
in thirking that it would. The present Ministers we knew
to be men of sitlightenttl views, and to have adopted more
liberal principles of trade tl.an had ever before been acted
upov. IVe had than made no inquiry into the state cf the
1 reign silk manufacture, nor into the price of labour in
Fian:e , Switzerland, and elsewhere on the Continent; and
so little was the superior excellence of their machinery,
and the low wages of their workmen, known, or were sus-
pected, that, to my knowledge, eight silk manufacturers
out of ten were of opinion that the trade would not suffer

by ferign compeiith.in ; it was thought that though' is
sortie 'vides we might be excelled, yet that upon the
whole we had very little, if anything to fear from any ri-
valahip in our own market. Then again it must be recol-
lected that, in addition to this inducement to expend this
addit'onal eapiial, as was done in Macclesfield, trade
wu getting brisk in every department; money, which had
been extrermly scam!, had got plentiful; and the silk
trade, which, dealing in an article of luxury, hail for a long
time been very slack, having felt the efects of she general
depression, began at this time to revive; the demand for
silks begame very active, and the supply required put the
trade on the al rt. There was therefore, it will be seen,
every encouragement for the manufacturers of Macclesfield
to make the preparations they did. But when the mann-
tacturcrs bestirred themselves to make all those necessary
inquiries as to the capacity of the French and Italian ma-
nufaelurers ta supply our market, and the price at which
their silks could be brought in--an inquiry which till then
had never I eon made, it was soon found that we had gone
upon very !erroneous calculations; that instead of being
able to compete ::ith them, as the majority of us had sup-
posed we could do, it was proved to demonstration that it
MEI utterly impossible: and from that time, and in pro-
portion as this conviction gained ground, which it did very
rigidly, the silk trade has stagnated. The mercers have

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declined to buy lest they id have l s lime an unsaleable stock
i
of British goods on hand. in consequence of the foreign
importation ; the manufacturers have sopped giving out
work to the weavers, and this state of things has produced
all the distress which now prevails at Macclesfield, Con-
.. . ...

vlcon, and throughout all the silk manufacturing districts in
f:!tgland and Scotland ; but it is to the former place that 1
sore particularly apply flicse observations, which I hope
'lay find a place its your raper,
I am, Sir, _

!NI acclemfield.

A SILK ItIANUFACTURER.

_ .
We understand that Prince Sw•artsenburg, who has been
in England a few months, left town on Thursday night
Inc Vienna; be is the bearer of despatches to the Austrian
Government.

A letter from an American gentleman in Guayaquil, of
August 4, states that nothing new had occurred there, but
mentions as a novelty the arrival of a steam-vessel from
England, which had created no small amazement among
the natives, as they could not conceive how fire and water,
by making steam, should propel a vessel faster than wind
and nails. The writer remarks that the people, though
poisessing good natural talents, are deficient in education ;
but that they have so much shrewdness in trade that there
it little chance for citizens from the United States.

An event of a very melancholy nature is related in a
ester received yesterday from Mexico, dated the voth of
ieccoibtr. It states that a few days before, Mr. Ward,
be lion. Mr. iValdegrave,.and Mr. Baring, had gone out
a shooting excursion in the neighbourhood of Mexico,
..mag which Mr. Baring's gun went off by accident, and
Mr. Waldegrave on the spot.—Morainy Paper.
woman of the department of Gent is accused of a
Notr:ble crime, which the tniud can hardly conceive,
rid 14 which the will be tried at the next assizes to
1).1.1 at Auch. Having kept up a criminal correspon-
'l"e. notwithstanding she was married, she destroyed
arsenic the infant which was the fruit of her illicit
l'Ill'Irs•--Puris Paper.

ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVENUE
January, NU, and the sth January, 11:28; aho'

No.
INCOME and CHARGE on the CONSOLIDATED FUN

CATROLIC ASSOCIATION.

Ills Grace the Duke of Norfolk has returned the follow-
ing answer to Mr. 011orman's letter, inviting him to take
the Chair at the Meeting of the Roman Catholic Associa-
tion in Dublin, on the 10th insth.:—

FORNHAN, DEC. 20, Ink.
St a—l beg you will assure the Catholics of Ireland that I highly
prize the honour they have conferred upon me. by inviting me to
fill the Chair at the Meeting of the Catholic Association on the
10th of January- next. It is with unfei,red regret that I feel
called upon to decline a station of such high importance. Possess.
ing no property, and being distinguished by no title, connecting
me locally with Ireland, 1 should consider it a presumption to
take a Chair which, in my opinion, would be more suitably filled
by an Irish Catholic Nobleman of eminent private virtu and
lorpried worth.

The Irish Catholics will do me the justice to believe, that I take
the most lively interest in their welfare, and appreciate as I ought
to appreciate the value of the entire cordia/ity which subsists be-
tween them and the Fmglish Catholics, bound together as ice are
by the same views, interests, and duties, by a common faith and
common wrongs.

The Irish Catholics will find me, in all seasons, the active prct.
rooter of every measure calculated to relieve Ireland from the dia.
gra-eful remnants ot' a partial code, which has so long oppressed
and disligured that fair portion of the British empire, eamtleinned to
sterility her fertile soil, and sunk in abject misery her active, hardy,
and sagacious people.
The injorious effects brought upon the whole community, by the
unjust and impolitic coercion of a portion of it, are now clearly un.
derstootl t. and I am fully convinced the day cannot be far distant
when the Catholics of Ireland will enjoy the protection and happi.
nest they deserve, under the mild administration of just and equal
laws.

To you, Sir, personally. and to Mr. Shell. I return my sincere
thanks fur thethtteriog expression of your good opinion.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your faithful, obedient, and humble servant,
NORFOLK.
Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman, Es c% Secretary
to the eatholics of Irelind.

A report was circulated on Wedneaday morning in Paris,
that larshal Suchet, Duke of Albufets, had died at
Marseilles.

A letter from Coethen states that the chain bridge of
Nieuberg, which was lately broken in so unfortunare a
manher during a rejoicing, was not constructed in the
English mode, but after a plan and particular process,
which left among other innovations a power of opening in
the middle a trap for the passage of the masts of vessels.
They say that there were upon the part which fell about
300 persons, 5‘2 of whom were killed, and a great number
so much wounded that most of them have since died. On
the Gth the Duke of Anhalt-Coethen, on his return from
Paris, passed the bridge with the Princess his wife, which
interrupted the works that were going on for the consolida-
tion of the structure; it having been previously discovered
that it was a little weakened. The unfortunate architect,
Berghauer, is guarded by two soldiers, and a judicial in-
quiry is going on with respect to this event.—Efoile.
The meeting at Sleaford on Monday last, to form an
Association far the protection of British Agri. nit ire, was
most respectably attended. The County M m lets, Sir
William Ingilby and Mr. Chaplin. took part in the busi-
ness of the day, and were deservedly thanked for their de-
votion to the agricultural interest.—Lincoln Mercury.
An interesting occurenee has just taken place at Saint
Ives, in Cornwall. A French slave ship has been driven
in by distress. She was fitted up with all the apparatus
for the horrid traffic; chains, thumb-screws, &c. and had
on board five slaves, youths who were kept, out of a cargo
lately landed in the West Indies, to assist in the naviga-
tion of the vessel. The ship has been fitting up in France
for another voyage to Africa, and was taking back these
five slaves, who would probably have been sold with the
next cargo. The arrival of the vessel under such circum-
stances excited considerable interest in the neighbourhood
of Sr. Ives; anti route person sent information to Mr. Wil-
berforce and Mr. Stephen. Through them the Chief Jus-
tice Best has been applied to, and has issued a writ of
habeas corpus, for bringing up the slaves to London.
Some person expressed a wish to the French Captain to
have one of the youths, but he said he-would not sell him
under forty pounds! The vessel, too, it is understood,
will be forfeltvd.—fr're,riig Paper.

ear ended Quarters eaded
Y
year endcd
.1; n 5, it Jan. 3,
1824. :1 Lth April, sth July, 10th Oct. 6th Jan. 1826.
1825. 1825. 11125. 1826.
.1 X. C. X. X. C.
10.239.739 ' 1.277,215 3.935.641 5.278.453 3.709,943 15,194.254
25.113.283 •1 5.575.448 4.249.11.45 5.154.850 4,544.470 19.524 621
6,753,096 .1 1,714,819 1,629,646 1,1123,519 1,636,249 8,997,233
4,922.1170' 477,396 2,035.463 474,423 2,062,846 4.990.138
1,444,1)00 387,000 369.000 379.000 382,000 1,517,000
340,571 111 80,669 20.926 76.379 112,581 350.573
48,812 759 !'10,512,567 12,493,521 13,196,644 12,381,089 48,573,821
1.733,333
50,546.092 .16 512,567 12,493,621 13,186.104 12,381,069 148,573.821
47,525,260 '140,404,673 11,498,988 11.634,958 12,030,204 45,558,823
3,020,232 107,894 1,004,523 1,551 6811 336,885 3.014.998
50.546,0991110.619,567 12.493,521 13,186,644112,381,069 48,873,821

No. 11.
of GREAT BRITA
wing the Increase and

'N, In the Years sad
/mean an sash Head

!tution ended the 6tl
Iteseot:

YEARS ENIICD JAI?. 5. !
Incrase. Decrease. QIARTERS "D•jAN. 6. Inereue. Demease.
1823. 11126. 1825. 1826.
• X X .0 .0 X .1; X X
Coo4ome - . .. 10,231).739 15,191,234 4,954,515 I 2.814.841 3,702.943 808,102 Zsciss - - - 25.113.2113 19,4.2 1.1i21 -- - 3,5118.662 ; 6,840,503 4,544,470 -- - 2,096,093
Stamps - . - 6.753,096 6,487,23.3 244.137 1.636.032 1,836,249 217 Post 0 ffice .. . 1,444.000 1,517.900 73,000 366.000 38'2,000 16,000 Taxes - - - . 4.922.070 4,9!01,238 68,068 1,9811.048 2,002,846 14,798
Miscellaneous - - 310,571 330,373 10,002 i 125,371 119,581 . - - 12.990
--
48,1112,732 48,573,819 5,349.722 5,388,662 ! 13,571,035 12,301,0119 919.117 2,1010,003
— --
Deduct Increase - - - - 5,349,722 Deduct Increase - . . . 919.117
Decrease nn the Year - { L 238 940 Deere's,' on the Quarter - . - 1,1112,266
_ ._ ______

I), in the Quarters ended the 6th of January, 1823`and 1828.

Quarts. ended Jan. 5. I
1 Quarts. ended .an. 5.
- •
INCO3IS. 1825. 1826. I CHARGE. 1825. 1826.
___l....__,
.C_
.4;
£
Customs - - - •
Excise - . - - ..
i2L.,648104:800,..63 34_,.3.44524_:04.7380 I,OE. eueht ever Aeuicies : - .
3.679 3,152
h Sea Company - 97,704 97.762
-
S amps - - - - - 1,836,032 1.6;16.249 1 Rank on their Capital .
- • 09,125 89.125
Post-Office - . - 366.000 382.1" Dividends
Taxes - - - - - 1,91111,048 2,0112,LW; . . . - 8,506,194
18,487,581
National Debt - - 1,211,800 ,232,000
31 iscidlaneous . - . . 125,571 112,:k81- -
Trustees for the Payment of Naval and
. . .
13,571,014 ;12,030.204 C Military Pensions - -
ivil List 212,500 212,600 Tontine Money, Ike. .. . 12,100 I 1:3,333 pensionChary* - - - 265,206 185.671 - - 89,549 92,369
s . -
- - Cult to he brought to this Account from
. the Ways and Means to replace the hke Other
-- - sum issued out of the growing Produce
400
of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for 10,474.757 10,
• - 080,900
for public Services, in the Quartet end-
Surplus - - - 5.517,440 2,,81W
ing 10th October - . . 408,683 439.321
13,992,197 12,480,1180
113,292,197 .12,480,880 Exchequer Bills issued for the Cone°.
lidated Fund, at 10th Oct. 1835, and
paid off out of the growing Produce of
that Fund in the Quarter ended 6th
Jan. 1826 . . - - - - 4,023,531
Surplus Sth .pan. 11126 - . - 2,000,880
Issued out of the Consolidated Fund, on
account of the Supplies granted for the
service of the year 1826 - - . 3,631,983
Total at sth Jan. 1826, to be provided
for by art issue of Exchequer Bills --
charged on the growing Produce of the
Consolidated Fund for the Quarter end-
ing 6th April, 182 d - . . . - 5,574,654

TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.

The number of Vessels reported at the Liverpool Cuttonthouse
for the last six months is live Thousand and Forty, to which add
Two Hundred and Eighty that have gone op to the Port of Rug.
torn, via.—

From FonJim Parts 1954
Ireland . 12.2 Tonnage 696,13.10 Sons.
Coastwise . .....

5040
To Runcorn

Total ..... 0320 713,040

In 1824 3260

636,641

'acreage— GO Vessels. 7d,4311

COTTON.

TOTAL IMPORT 4NI) RTOCR OF COTTON IN
GREAT BRITAIN.
TOTAL. IMPORT-1818. 686.000; 1819, 646.3115; 1820, 671,070;
1821, 491,376; 1822, 663,637; 1823, 670,408 ; 1824, 539,059
bag*.
STOCK-1817. 477.900; 1810. 29.9.616; 1819. 351.0001 1820;
406,209 ; Rl2l, 364,714 ; 1822, 286,376 ; 1023, 303.1130 bar.

Liverpool . . .
London . . . .
Clyde, dm • . .

IO2:.
705.357 bagi.
82,940
32,000

Total fm port 820,197
Stock, 31st Dec. 182 E . 233,3.50

EXPORTED. 1,0:4,817
From Lont!on . . 38.2g0
Liverpool - - 31 ,511 I
Clyde - 1;30
--"-- 74,391

PRESENT STOCK. 9C1,156
London . - 97.020
Liverpool . 311.114)0
Clyde . 7,039

1 S,SW

Leaving . . 668,11,7
bags for home consumption, equal about 10,870 bags weekly.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—Our Cotton market is steady;
about 1,500 bags sold, principally to the trade, at similar
prices to yesterday.
Fitts AT Devoweorrr.—Saturday evening the neigh-
bourhood of Catherir.e.street. Devonport, was thrown into a state
of the utmost alarm Py a fire, which broke out M that densely
populated part of the town known by the name of the " Cribe."
and which at the outset assumed a very serious aspect. The
flames were first perceived bursting through the roof of one of the
houses, which, with the roofs and tipper stories of the two ad.
joining dwellings, were speedily in a blaze. The inhabitants of
this district, who are almost exclusively of the lower order of
society, were seen hurryinglo and fro, anxiously endeavouring to
rescue their little property. One old man, a cripple, was obliged
to be let down front the window of his chamber by the assistance
of • rope and a ladder, his bodily infirmities not allowing him to
seek safety himself. The town engine soon arrived. and being
plentifully supplied with water. and aided by the activity of the
firemen, with their hooks, the flames were got under without any
loss of life baying occurred. A guard of 24 soldiers belonging to
the 32d (or Cornwall Regiment) was in httendance, to prevent
depredation. Great credit is due to the Commanding Officer of the
32d for allowing the instant attendance of the guard, and to the
men themselves for their steady exertions to preserve good order.
The cause of the fire has not transpires!....Plymounk Journal.
The News of Literature and Fashion, Science, and Act,
No. 113. being the First Number for the present year, or the first of
the Fourth Volume of this Weekly Journal (which is just publish.
.ed by Mr. E. I). Pouchee, INn. 7, Brydges-street, Covent.garden,
and sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen), contains, among many
other interesting articles :—I. Address to the Readers-2. The New
Year —3. Political Reflections-4. Public Character of hard Hex.
ley-5. Scottish Manners, by a celebrated Novelist-6. Art of Em-
balming discovered-7. New Patent Christmas Piece-8. Operas
and Opera Singers-9. Poetry-10. The Townley Marbles, No.
411, with a Drawing-11. General Observations on Dress-12. The
Art of Female Drew and the Influence of Fashion-13, atetropo.
litan Architecture, No. 7, New Church at Brixton-14. News of
the Drama-15. News of the Fine Arta-18. News of Literature__
17. News of the Sciences-18. News of Professions and Arts.—le.
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