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forms o•, that the occonols fr,im the ill.foted city
NI Philad.lobio, repreoesit the state of things throe
to be in the highest degree Maiming; that &Nths
are doily occurring.

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Our city continues to etiny au stott.unl ,te of
; the disease, I am sorry 10 •ry,

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Itrwi•irls and 114mloorgli wriverle
Tlie following are tlie wily t traya til(0111 1.610.01.1,

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11AM1Q1 RCM, qiPTElllifl 26.

A Treaty ar Crienuterre is tiesoeistosig Is. twerp 1.). umiak
sod Norway, by whirli Kull silvatutaz•-• will lw uirrurtd I.
the ship+ of both ust loos in rack 1111. r, . p iris respectively,
but those *hall not ext. oil to the paisaige of the Sousa, be-
cause Norway hss Nothios Is offer in morn.
II is said that $ regakr
established laftvarea Rugs stud 11w weld of polor, Ay Pecans
of strain-busts, which are so ply lirlyrers 1.,. Ira, sod Lubeck.

ie intended 10 he

HAMMING'S, SIPTEMORIII 21.

0.,, journals nslaia a paper without signature, dated the
frontiers of Savoy, 411, of Scriemtier, which pnrports to lie
an Address from the Priniontele, to his 31ajesty the ffstig of
Sardinia, retreating hies to give them • Constitutional Go-
vernment. In this paper the petitioners espress their Arm
attachment to his Majesty and his Illisetrions Howse, and
their confidence in the wisdota which always presides is he.
Council., and have awaited since the regeneration of
what Ids Majesty might determine. But tirrnhi anticipate
us, !lee changes in Naples affect us too nearly, thu Neapo-
litans are Italian* like oniaelves, and their revolution has
become a family concern.

TRIFSTr, PrPTINIIICIt 14.

Il is pietended that the Rusaian fivelt ahirh has sailed
from Sebastopol, will leave the Black st* during the winter,
awl come into the Mediterranean.

ICc• a few clays since directed the atieutiop of
the public to the Report mach• by the
hush Ciouniatee ►o a pol►tic ineeilog of the •nlea-
brtants of that town, sport the suliject of the de-
cline of trade, and the di►tressea that too g+eee►ally
prevail among the snanufacturnig and lobe itrieg
classes throughout all parts of the empire. The
Committee, to avoid the ohjictiiiii mussily made to
general etatenterits, and to foiled their claim to the
coeti :fence of the Goverement, the 1. g.tlature,
and the public, upon the more certain 1.1.414, of local
knowledge and individual experience, turn front
the extended view of the collective trifle of the
empire, and limit their inquiry to the stale of the
manufacturing classes of their own town, and from
the discoveries thence obtained, they naturally feel
themselves justified in concluding, deal they have
obtained a tolerably correct estimate for forming an
opinion respecting the local circumstances of ether
manufacturing districts. The first object to which
they direct this information, is to deny the correct-
ness of Lord LIVERPOOL'S statement in the House
of Lords on the Marquis of LANSDOWN'S MODOD.
that the home cousumptiots of the last year, as com-
pared with that of the two years preceding, had
not fallen off; and they observe very justly that
their individual and minute inquiries from certain
retail dealers, form a better criterion of the increase
or diusinutiois of the home consumptiou than
could he derived font the custom house arid exi•rse
books, to which alone Lord LIVERPOOL could or
did refer for information. In the absence of more
correct sources of intelligence, the Government
and the public mast be satisfied with the books of
office, although it must be obvious to every owe that
Malty eaIIOCS operate to render them a very iusuffi-
cient evidence of the actual consumption of ail
entire people ; hut the Birmingham &Committee
have in effect opened the books of the retail trader•,
and from them they have collected that the con=
sumption ref certain articles of primary importance
had fallen off in
years, more titan one-third. The aspect of gene-
ral distress throughout the country is an arsurunce,
a posteriori, that this intelligence afforded by
the Birmingham Committee is correct, for if she
consumption of the country had remained undi-
minished, as Lord LIVERPOOL supposes, the ms-
nufacturing and labouring chutes had never found
so mach cause for complaint.
The- Committee, in treating lightly the Marquis
of LANSDOWN'S motion for an inquiry into the
means of promoting the foreign ifadtt of the coun-
try, seem to have fallen into what we conceive to
be a common error, namely, that foreign trade is
but the exuberance of a domestic trade—and that,
consequently, the domestic trade ought to be the
object of principal interest with the Legislature.—
The progress assigned by ADAM SIS ITU and other
ecotionsists to agriculture., manufactures, and fo-
reign commerce, has always appeared to us to be
extremely fanciful, as it undoubtedly is opposed to
the experience of history. Have we not often stet
, nations commercial without being
- pursuing ass extensive foreign trade without haver •
a single domestic manufacture ? The agrieultuer
excellence of the Dutch succeeded their camper.
cisl prosperity, as it indeed appeared to be the
consequeuce of it. The same may be said of the
Venetians, Genoese, Pisrrne, the Portuguese, Suitt
in our own days of the Americans. Circumstances
peculiar to a people lead them to some particular
pursuit, which habit and experience advance In
• .eatistroce, and it will he found an idle display of
theory if we seek to trace their prosperity to the tin-
' staled operation of the principles of political economy.
• it is to he► foreign commerce p►imarily. aided by
a Lug enjoyment of domestic tranquillity, that
England owes her accumulation of capital, lire
great internal trade, and, finally, her agricultural
excellence; and as under its fosterieg shelter her