The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-15 00:00:00

MINORITY

Of 47, who on Friday Even inn voted for Mr. Humes Claim* In the
Mutiny Act
Allan, J. A. Gord,n, Robt. Leiceiter, R. Rumboldt, C. E.
Brytres, Sir G. Gunny, Bullion Martin, John Stuart, William
Blaine, Sir F. Guise, Sir Wm. Macdonald, Jai. Smith, John
Ilernali, Ralph Graham, Sir S. Alaberly, John Smith William
Benet', John Heron, Sir R. Moberly, Maier Sykes, Daniel
Burdett, Sir F. Hobhouse, J. C. Mona, J. R. Sefton, Lord

Buxton, T. F. Huneywood, T. P. Nugent,Lord Taylor,, M. A.
Broughton, Rouse Howard, Henry N.:tertian, R. W. Woo& Aid.
Crompton, Sam. Hutchinson,Ho.HOrti, Witliant Wharton. Jobe
Denison, Wm. Johnson, Cu!. Palmer, C. F. Wilson, Sir K.
Evans, E. Knight. R. Bickford, WM. Williams, Wis.
Ferguson, Sir R. Kecawitcb, W. 111146C11, Lord J T J.lissas
PAIRgn Orr--Itlght Hoe. G. Tierney; Hight Hon. W. Bartle.
• " That from and after the passfug of this Act it shod' not be lawful
to Inflict corporal punishment, by stripes or ladles, on any soldier serrin;
in time of peace In the army, regulated by this Act, in any part of Great
Britain or Ireland, notwithstanding any law or usage to the c.lntrary."

EXPORTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
lir MIL. C.I:SAR SOU AU. TREUTTEL MID WURTZ, SOW-

SQUAIIE.

Mr. Moreau, who is well known to the public as one of
the most indefatigable compilers of the present day, has
published another valuable work, from the lithographic
press, relating to British commerce.
It is a " statement exhibiting the whole British and Irish produce
and manufactures exported from Great Britain to each kingdom.
state, or colony, respectively, in every part of the world, from law
to 11324, diatinguiiilillg the years of war from those of peace.
" To whicti is prelixed an introduction, showing from the earliest
period the real causes of the progress of British commerce and
manufacture.; anti front 1814 to 11124 a comparative statement of
the official and declared value of the principal articles of British
and Irish produce and manufactures exported from Great Britain
to all parts of the world, according to the declarations of the mer-
chants' exporters.
" The whole concluded by a summary recapitulation, sheaving, in
twenty-four taLlcs, constructed on a new plan, and exhibiting, from
11114 to 1824, the true increase or dectease of the leading branches
of the whole British manufactures exported.
" The whole carefully compiled. digested, and arranged the
ancient part from the most authentic original records, minted and
manuscript ; and the modern part from the records of Parliament,
the Board of Trade, the accounts of the Custom-house, and tit:
ablest writers, foreign and British.
" Deilicate:l to the agriculturists, manufacturers, and merchants
in Great Britain and Ireland."
The author, in the well-written introduction to his eI.P.
rate work, assigns the following causes for the commercial
supremacy :
" I. Its Constitution, which for more than a century arts 151 i
has invested all landed property and productions of industry 'rich an
inviolable guarantee. under the protection of which they have beta
enabled to increase and develope themselves in perfect secari:Y.
From this primary benefit have arisen the following :--
"2. The chief promoter of all liberty, that of the press, whence
have proceeded, with electrical rapidity, all the inventions of Cc*
nius, the progressive advancement of the arts, the laws of mecha-
nics. and in general every liheral idea, every useful discovery.
" 3. The institution or the jury system in all matters ofjuriarett
tion, placing the life and property of every citizen under the isle'
guard of the law, and plote:ting him from the assaults of hulas
passions.
From these three organical points have arisen secontlarY igtl`
which are at once results and causes; these are the following:—,,
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4. The long credit, which the immensity of capital acqul
by English merchants has enabled them to give to buyers;
the fait
dealing, probity, and fidelity, that preside over the colleted
of die Nation.
5. The immense consumption of almost all the nations in the
two Indies, which, having recovered their liberty, or being randell
subservient to the sceptre of Great Britain, are maintained, and si
still, tier a lengthened period, be supported, by the productions of Ita
astonishing industry.
" 11. The magical nower of its credit, which, notwithstandingstandlng
tits
transitory reverses which it has undergone, and now undenn
will always furnish it with means, we will not say to foment and
maintain all wars it may deem necessary to its interest, but to se*
cure its independence and its glory againstits enemies.
7. Notes of It toil, rendered inviolate by the national faith and
by means of which England causes a circulation of the riches 01
both hemispheres in favour of its commercial iinterests."
8. Lastly, the extent and übiquity of its naval force, protect r'
at all times the immensity of its political organization, both cow-
merciai and financial.
•"l's all these causes may be added a no less important one, whose
powerful agency predominates over all tintes; we allude to ;:te
existence of the Council of Trade and Colonies, whose active so,!,*
diode has, for the last 14 yenta, embraced the past and present.
In this work Mr. Moreau gives a strong proof of the in-
creasing prosperity of Liverpool. In 1821 the exl*ris
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same year, they were 13,30,169/.

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I)RURY-LANE THEATRE.
Ifumorrow Evening, THVIISDA Y. Mwreb 16, will W performed a Dew
Operatic Play, called
BENVOWuKT ; Or, THE lAILEs OF X AMSCHATICA.
The Millen,' Chantrters by ?dew.. Bennett, Wallach, Horn,
Fliewll-
Nam, Tenley. liedbrd, W. Bennett, Browne, and Harley. Mimes Foote,
Cabin, and line).
To conclude with the Farce of
MONSIEL'a TONMON.

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COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
To-morrow Even!on, TIll'itSIMY, March 16, will be performed the
Comedy of
TIIE GOOD-NATVRED MAN.
Mr. lioneywood, Mr. Warde s Croaker, Mr. W. Farren ; Lofty. Mr.
Jane.;; Slt Wlt!hon Haneywood, Mr. Barsky; Leontiee. Mt. Cm per
Janis. Str. Planehard. 311ss Richland, Mn. Ebaßerlei Mi..
A. Jesse; Mn. Croaker. Mn. Glover.
After which the new Operatic Piece of
'TWAM
The principal Character. by Nero". Portrait, Keeley, From, and Darnell
Mimi Jones. Madame VerAtil, and lire. Davenport.
To conclude milk
THE SCAPE-GOAT.

COVEN'CoARHEN THEATRE.
cusp PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC,
11011 710 NANA sin
This F.rening, WEDNESDAY, Much I.
Paw I.—A %election from Der Itrel+ittuts, ender the direction of the
Conipmer, Carl Maria Vun Weber ;being Ms third public appearance
ia this ronntry;•
Pall? 11.—A Orand Selection from Gramm, Bishop, Mozart, Perry, Bar-
nett, and Model.
PART 111.—A Grand 3fl"cellenerrul Act, eoneistiror of Selection+ from
Mrs. Me% 11,yerbeer. Ekhop, Moran, and Haydn.
Principal Vara! Perfonnere—Meagre. Brahai and Phi Madame
Traria and Illas Paton.

TO-NIORT.
KING'S THEATRE. OPERA CONCERT-ROOM,
HAYMARKET.

EITIOCRANION.
Mr. D. V. t LEER'S AMTRONOMIC 4,L lA:en:Br on lids original
TEANSPAFFN r CtitHERV, which he hag refitted and enlarger!, will
take place thr. t.re.rtit WEDNESDAY EVENING, at Half-past 8-even.
The varlets. Phenomena of Day, Night, Twilight, the Seasons, Phases,
Eclipse% the S ilar and Sidereal `Systems, will he splendidly illitutrated
and the Earth... True Figure (that of an Oblate Spheroid., and the 1.7.1 e of
the Ceicetial Ghlte end the Longitude ut Sea, demonstrated.
Bogey ge. ; Pit 2.. • Gallery its. Piece. and particular. at Mr. Ebert's,
OTd nnctd-utreet • and at the Ma-nice °fate Theatre, dallY •
Thelided4 I,c:gterenrylle Don. Tavern, Kennington, on Friday Even-
ing N. mg Chandlery.

LAST NIGHT ONE IN LENT.
ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
Thf• Evening, WEDNESDAY, March is,
LitmanON ASTRONOMIC AND THE PHENOMENA OP TAN
HEAVEN% AND OP THE EARTH,
TO HE DELIVERED RY DIR. BARTLEY.
Begin! nr veven—Coneludev at Ten.

The BRUME Paw Commenced publi.hltur yesterday seraligt at •
quarter part seven o'clock.

LON: DON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13,1891.

The French Papers contain a Ito- yal Ordonnance for the
regulation of the Normal Schools, and a Proclamation of
the Emperor NICHOLAS for the convocation of the Polish
Diet. A number of commercial failures continue to be
announced in these Papers. We have no room for ex-
tractg.

It will be seen by the Parliamentary proceedings of last
night, that Lard Liv ERPOO L gave notice of his intention to
move for a Committee to inquire into the state of Banking
in Scotland and Ireland.

The elnquent and impressive speech of the CHANCE

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Loa of the EXCIIEQU ER, in bringing in the Budget, was
well calculated to quiet the apprehensions which so much
pains bad been previously taken to excite as to the financial
condition of the country. 11 is clear and candid statement con-
tained all that was necessary to satisfy the public, and to jus-
tify the immense majority, both within and without the walls
of Parliament, devoted to the principles of his administra-
tion. The firm and dignified tone in which he repelled
the taunt of Mr. Hem e, so frequently thrown out against
himself and his colleagues, of retaining expensive and
useless offi2es on account of the patronage annexed to
dean, was highly honourable to him as a Minister and as
a man. His disinterested desire to have every public office
ably and effectively filled is well known ; no man cares to
have the beet attributes of his character wrested from him,
and to he held up to the reproach of the country, where
he is moat conscious of deserving its confidence and its
praise; it was therefore with a proper feeling of self-
esteem that he challenged the public approbation, for not
suffering the loss of patronage to act as an impediment to
a wise and honest measure, or to stand in the way of any
retrenchment which the efficient service of the country de-
manded. The Rt. Hon. Genes statement on Monday night
caused, we believe, no small surprise to many, who ima-
gined that the late confusion and embarrassments of trade
would be found to have extended to the finances of the
41 country. He prefaced the etails of his statement, by an
ex pan of his financial m sores since he first accepted
office, sufficient to soften t rigour of those even who were
most stubbornly disposed . o sinister anticipations. The
relief to the country from a considerable weight of taxa-
tion ; the reduction of duties, in order to extend our coin-
merce ; and the fulfilment of his predictions with respect to
the result of those measures, together with numerous proofs
of the national prosperity which ensued, were all oppor-
tunely recapitulated: in touching on the late revursions, he
estimated the loss to the revenue which might arise from
them at about 1,300,0001. We confess that whether we con-
sider the origin or extent of those difficulties, they appear to
us to present a momentary impediment to our progress,—a
shock arising front the sudden extinction of a quantity of
fictitious capital, which had existed too short a time to
become intimately connected with the industry of the coun-
try ; one of these natural fluctuations in the commercial for-
tuneof the nation, which no human prudence could avert.
With respect to the dead weight annuities, he stated dis-
tinctly that he did not think that the arrangement made
with the Bank was quite unobjectionable, but at the same
time he could not understand the force of all the argu-
ments used against it. Now, it appears to us, that, viewed
merely as a financial measure, that arrangement is liable
to very little objection, if to any at all ; and this shall con-
tinue to he our opinion until, at least, it be shown us how
an equal sum might have been raised on terms more ad-
vantageous to the public; but as far as the Bank was colt-

cerned in it, and induced to advance money on inconver-
tible security, we think it wholly unjustifiable.
This transaction indeed may be viewed in another way,
which seems hitherto to have wholly escaped attention ;
we may able them, with what intentions or motives did
Government sell a long annuity, terminating in 1860, to
a body whose charter expires in 1833? Was there any
understanding between the parties as to the renewal of
that charter ? or are we to believe that the Bank took
upon themselves all the hazard of bringing so great a
property to market before the arrival of that period?

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No reduction is to take place, except of the duty on
tobacco ; this we doubt not will call forth loud compleints
from certain quarters, but we beg leave to remind those•
gentlemen who earn a frail popularity by complaining of
the public burdens, that the nation has no alternative
between increased debt and taxation : with respect to
the increased amount of taxation (we beg pardon for
having unwarily slipped into the sophistical expressions
of certain gentlemen of the opposition benches), we mean
the increased amount of revenue, it is gratifying to rind
that it proceeds front an increased productiveness (.50 per
cent.) of the former taxes.
Mr. Hume, however, still insists that more money is
taken from the pockets of the people now than formerly,
and that taxation diminishes the comforts of the people.
Can he not see, that; while the taxes are the same, the
increase of revenue cannot be a new encroachment on the
comforts of the people—that if more money be collected, it
must be from the pockets of a greater or more opulent po-
pulation—that, in short, the increase of revenue, under
those circumstances, is a proof that the people are not
weighed down by the weight of taxation ?
It would be well, indeed, if nations had never contracted
debts • but these are the consequences of war, and are
therefore to be reckoned among the inevitable ills attend-
ant on the infirmities of mankind. But when once those
burdens have been created, we wish to know by what !locus
ppm (a familiar phrase with the opposition benches,)
Ministers are to pay the interest of the National Debt, and
support a Sinking Fund, without imposing taxes? In other
words, how are they to pay what they owe, without a re-
venue, and yet to have a surplus? Now, this is precisely
what Mews. Beats and MADERLY require. With re-
spect to the able and economical arrangement of public
offices, referred to in the CHANCELLOR of the Excitc-
ctuE ell speech, these are facts well known and admitted.
That Ministers will continue to adhere firmly to tbat

just and liberal t..urse of policy which they have hitherto
pursued, is sufficiently attested by the declaration of the
Cu AN C Et.t.oa of the EXCHEQUER, that he was determir ea

to keep pace with the progress of knowledge, and to
apply the lights of political science to the practice of his
Adtninistration.

CITY,
TUESDAY EVF.If MG.

The Stock Exchanges were in great confusion this morn-1
ing, and Consols varied at their opening between 77.1 and
77 ; however, they subsequently settled down to 77. An
improvement to 77k occurred about one o'clock, and the
closing price was 774. 1. Exchequer Bills were Ss. 4s. 6s.
35. pm., and India Bonds 2s. Is. This amendment in the'
Exchequer Bill market was in a great degree occasioned by
the relief that is expected to he afforded to it by the pro-
posed funding. Bank Stock for the Account was 203, and
India ditto, 233. The new Four per Cents left off at 941.
The Commissioners appointed by the Bank of England
for distributing the sums to be advanced on loan in Glas-
gow, state, in the advertisement in the Glisgow papers, that
ilia mast inviolable secrecy will in every instance be ob-
served. As at Manchester and elsewhere, the loans are to
be not above 10,0001. nor under 300/.

The question of the expediency or inexpediency of re-
ducing the quantity of the unfunded debt, by converting
it into stock, is one on which the Ministers ought to have
the best means of judging. If Exchequer Bills fall to a
discount, and are habitually paid to the receivers of taxes,
to whom in certain cases they may be legally tendered at
par instead of money, it becomes absolutely necessary for
the Government either to increase the interest on them, or
to reduce their amount by funding.
In the Foreign market there was but triflit.g business,
the attention of the jobbers being directed entirely to Con-
sols. Colombian Bonds 474 to 47—buyers; Mexican 62
to 621 ; Russian were 1 per cent. higher, 77. In the
other Foreign Stocks, or in Shares, there was little
variation.