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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1830.

HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

The following is the Bulletin issued this day—
" Windsor Castle, June 4.
" The KING had but little sleep last night, yet passed
it on the whole quietly. His MAJESTY'S respiration was
embarrassed from time to time.

(Signed) " HENRY lIALFORD.
• " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 29th May
contains a very sensible article on the Tariff
lately imposed by his HOLINESS on articles im-
ported into, and exported from, the Roman States.
The several duties are so oppressive as in some
instances to amount to a prohibition, but in
others to be found impossible of being carried
into effect.

Mr. SADLER, last night, in a speech full of

pedantic quotations of great names, and of vul-
gar abuse of political economists—an appellation

which he levels only at those who hold doctrines

different frOm his own—moved for the imme-
diate introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland.
As Mr. SADLER'S notice of motion was for an

inquiry into the state of the labouring classes
generally, his conduct was rather unfair, as being

calculated to take Members by surprise—an ob.
ject, however, which be failed to accomplish

The fact of a Committee being sitting to inquire
into this very subject was undoubtedly a suffi-

cient reason for negativing Mr. SADLER'S pro-
position as being premature, and ill-timed. The
Hon. Member must now try to find some other
topic in which his list of great names may be
equally useful.
The Report of the Committee on the Poor
of Ireland, now sitting, is a document which
will be looked for with much anxiety, and will,

It is to be hoped, prove of real utility. It is
Full time that the very important question of the
introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland should be
decided one way or the other, and that its diffi-

culties should be met boldly, if the prepon-
derance of reasons appears really to be in favour
of the measure. It is a subject full of doubt

and perplexity, and when the opinions of en-
lightened men are so widely opposed to each
other, it savours of presumption in most indivi-
duals to speak upon it with any degree of con-
fidence. The Committee will, of course, give it

he fullest consideration, and therein will, doubt

:essly, not overlook the valuable chapter on the

Poor Laws in Mr. M'CuLLocti's new edition

of his Principles of Political Economy. The
arguments for and against a poor-rate for able-
bodied men are there stated in the strongest
manner, and Mr. M'CuLLocir finally decides
in its favour for reasons founded on the history
of the English Poor Laws, from the reign of
ELIZABETH down to 1795. He thinks the
evils of our present system to be owing, not to
the rates themselves, but to the abuse of them
commenced about that period, by the practice of
paying wages out of the rates, and by adminis-
tering relief elsewhere than in work-houses. Mr.
M'CuLLocii has removed from his mind ob-
jections which he admits to have appeared to
him at one time insuperable, and his new ideas
are particularly worthy of attention front those
who are against Poor Laws, in principle, alto-
gether, or at least as far as regards persons who
are able to work.
There is no lack of advice on the state of the
population of Ireland, and though all writers on
this subject can hardly receive attention, such
philosophical essays as Mr. WILMOT Hon-
TON'S Third Series of his " Inquiry into the
Causes and Remedies of Pauperism," deserve
and ought to be thoroughly studied. The five
letters to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT contained in
this series, on the relations between landlord and
tenant in Ireland—on the effect of the use of the
potatoe as food,—of tithes, and of the Sub-
letting Act, &c., on the condition of the
peasantry, are valuable dissertations ; and
Mr. IlonToN has taken occasion to expose
the knavery of those who quote Scripture,
to make the people believe that emigration
is an irreligious measure, and are imprudent
enough to cite Lord BACON as an authority
against it, when, of all writers on the subject,
Lord BACON is time one who has expressed him-
' self the most clearly in favour of its expediency.
The Quarterly Review, in an article on pau-

perism, containing not a few propositions of the
strangest nature imaginable, (such, for instance,
as the imposition of a direct tax upon machinery,)
takes occasion, for the second time, to urge the
establishment of Poor Colonies in Great Britain
and Ireland, on the plan of those at Frederic-
soord, in Holland. As so much' has been said

and written about these. Co',Dies, and as mans
people in this country, among whoin were our-
selves, were originally so much ,truck with then; as
to believe them to be a national good, we think it
right to inform the Q.:arter/g Reviewer that opi-
nion in the Netherlands has recently changed
considerably with reference to their utility.
The second number of the Revue Beige,
published at Brussels, contains an article which
gives, from personal inspection, a -more minute
account of the " Institutions de Bielifaisance"
than any we have before seen, and which pro-
nounces them a bad speculation and an unpro-
ductive employment of capital, in a. country
where no other persons can be found to cul-
tivate the sandy heaths of the Northern
Provinces, though the ordinary interest on
capital is but two per cent., and often less. The
Count ARRIVABENE, by whom this latest ac-
count has been written, is known as an active

philanthropist, but has not suffered his judg-
ment to be so far misled by his .benevolence, as
to withhold his censure from a plan in opposi-
tion to those sound principles of public economy
whose observance is the only sure means of
advancing the general happiness. We wish the
Quarterly Reviewer could see Count A RRIVA•
BENE'S Narrative ; it will set him right in many
errors into which he has fallen, not
,only in his
reasoning but in his facts ; as a proof of which,
the last official return of the population of all

the Dutch Establishments makes the numbers
relieved only 8140, whilst the Quarterly Re-
viewer has stated them at 30,000. If the Dutch
Colonies do not answer, as is now said, we must
be careful in citing them as models for our imi-

tation. Upon the whole, they seem calculated
to aggravate, rather than diminish, the redun-
dancy of labour, and consequently to increase
the very evil which it is our business to remedy.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

FOUR AND HALF PER CENT. DUTIES.

Copy of Minute of the Lords of his Majesty's Trea-
sury, by which the Customs Duty payable on Sugars
brought to this Country, in discharge of the Four
and Half per Cent. Duties, have not been paid since 25th
March, 1828 ; and the authority under which such Ex-
emption has been male. GEO. 11. DAWSON.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Nil 27, 1880.

COPY OF TREASURY MINUTE, DATED APRIL 15, 1828.
Read letter from the Solicitor, dated 26th ultimo, en-
closing a case, r. specting the Four and Half per Cent.
Duty, laid before the Attorney and Solicitor-General, in
compliance with the directions contained in the letter of
this Board, of 21st ultimo. The opinion of the Attorney
and Solicitor-General is requested on the following point,
viz.—
" Whether (as it has been held that no property of his
Majesty is, unless specially subject to duty, liable to the
payment of it) the Sugars granted to the King in kind,
and not specially subjected by any Act to Custom Duty,
being also subjected to his Majesty's disposal, and now
applicable to public objects pointed out by Parliament in
the Act 6th Geo. IV. cap. 88, (namely, the payment of
the Expenses of the Ecclesiastical Establishment in the
West Indies) are liable to the payment of any Custom
Duty ?" Upon which point their opinion is as follows :
" We arc of opinion that the property in the Sugars in
question being in his Majesty, the same are not liable to
the payment of any Custom Duty." Transmit copy of
the case, and of the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor-
General thereon, to the Commissioners of Customs, anti
desire they will give such directions as may be necessary
fur the delivery of these Sugars in future without the pay-
ment of any duty. Transmit copy of the case, and of
the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General there-
on, to the Husband of the roar and Half per Cent. Duty,
and acquaint him with the directions given to the Com-
missioners of Customs.

The last 'State Paper presented to Parliament,
bearing the signature of Prince LEOPOLD, iv very generally
reported as coming from the pen of Earl GREY.
MEETING OF THE MIDDLESEX MAGI-
STRATES. —Yesterday a numerous body of the Middlesex
Magistrate's assembled in their Sessions House, Clerken-
well-green, for the despatch of business, connected with the
business and expenditure of the county.—FRANCIS CONST,
Esq., Chairman. A report from the Committee appointed
to inquire into this subject, with a view to reducing its
expense to the county, was read by the Deputy Clerk of
the Peace, and resolutions founded thereon were agreed to.
In our Scottish Church there are but few
offices of emolument, independent of the parochial living.
Among those few are, belonging to his MAJESTY'S house-
hold, four Deans of the Chapel Royal, and six Chaplains
in Ordinary. It is remarkable that, within these few
weeks, three of these offices have become vacant—one of the
Deans, by the death of the Very Rev. Dr. BROWN, of
Aberdeen, who was also Dean of the Order of the Thistle;
and two of the Chaplains, by the death of the. Rev. Dr.
SOMERVILLE, of Jedburgh, and the Rev. Dr. FLEMING,
of Hamilton. The ages of these three venerable arrgy-
men, taken together, amount, we are informed, to nearly
250 years.—Edinburgh Observer.
We have some advices from Lima, but they
entirely relate to local matters. In consequence of the
litigious spirit manifested by members of the Imperial
clan, his MAJESTY has enacted some new laws concern-
ing them, the tenor of which is to this effect :—Should
any member, direct or collateral of the Imperial clan,
appeal to any Court in an affair that does not concern him-
self, and should it be found that this was designed to
obtain money by fraudulent pretexts, he shall he sentenced
to one hundred blows with a cudgel. And in affairs that do
concern themselves, if they form a conspiracy with wit.
nesses to extort money, the offenders shall be transported
to Kirin, deprived of their honorary distinction, and
receive a chastisement of forty blows with the bamboo.
At Ele, the place of transportation on the north side of
Trenshan, the Celestial Mountains, the EMPEROR has
required Iron the resident author ities an account of public
affairs at the close of every year. YALAFUN, a Tartar
Colonel, is transperkd to Ele, and subjected to hard
labour for the crime of adultery. HiS MAJESTY expresses
great contempt for the Colonel's shameless conduct.
FRENCH TELEGRAPHIC SYSTEM.---In
Paris there are three chief telegraphic stations, viz. :
Hotel de la Marine (Admiralty), Church of St. Sulpice,
and Rue Notre Dame des Victoites, and one on the heights
of Montmartre, a short distance outside the bat riers. By
this means intelligence can be received at Paris in three mi-
nutes from Calais, by way of twenty-seven telegraphs ; in
six minutes and a half from Strasburgh, by forty-six tele-
graphs ; in two minutes from Lille, by twenty-two tele-
graphs; in eight minutes from Lyons, by fifty telegraphs ;
in fourteen minutes and a half from Toulon, by ninety-
three telegraphs ; in sixteen minutes from Perpignan, by
eighty-nine telegraphs ; in fifteen minutes from Bayonne,
by eighty-six telegraphs ; and in eight minutes from
Brest, by eighty telegraphs. In 1822, a telegraph station
was established on the height on Montmartre, so as to
communicate by night with Orleans, Nantes, Havre, Bor-
deaux, and other commercial sea-pot t towns, by means of
lighted lanterns ; but, after many unsuccessful attempts,
the project was abandoned, as a sufficient reflective light
was not able to he obtained so as to make it distinguishable
at any distance. Many plans of the same nature have been
suggested by highly scientific men ; but, as )et, there has
been no further attempt made by the Chamber of Com-
merce, although, if sucerssful, it would be of the greatest
service, especially as Paris is about to become the great
entrepit for colonial and natural produce. A night tele-
graph station ha,6, however, been established at Pari, since
the preparations for the expedition to Algiers, which coin-
municatr s with Toulon, and ;s found to answer perfectly
well ; the lanterns are made with very powerful magnify-
ing glasses, with a strong reflector, and they me lighted
by portable gas : similar ones ate to be adopted through-
out the fleet, and along the African roast, as soon as they
may have effected a landing.

ARUNDEL MARKET.—June 1.
3s. 0(1. to 3s. 10d. 4d. to 4s. M.
Mutton 3 4 4 4 I Pork--..., 0 0 0 0

Lamb 4 tki. to ss. 8d
A moderately good supply, and a dull trade.

CITY MARKET S.-(T WO O'CLOCK.)

SUGAR.—There has been a considerable increase of
business in British Plantation Sugars within the last three
days, and purchases were freely made, both by grocers and
refiners, at former prices, except for low soft qualities,
which went cheaper. The quotation of low brown
Jamaica is 4Ss. ; good ditto, and coloury grey, 50s. to
538. ; IoW brown Tobago, 4Ss. ; soaie very good coloury
Berbice realized 70s. per cwt. total sales for the week,
ending this mourning, are about 2,500 casks. For fine
yellow llavannat there is some demand, but the supply
being limited no business is doing. As the quantity
Mauritius offered within the last day or two 11,s been
small, it went off freely ; low yellow at 455. to 465. 6d. ;
brown, 41s. to 455. ; awl grey at 475. 6d. per cwt.—
' There have been several parcels of Refined Swors disposed
of fsr the Mediterranean markets, but for Ilambing the
demand is inactive. Ordinary brown lumps are at 705.,
and good sm from 735. to 74's. ; some fine crashed sold
so high as 40s. per cwt.
COFFEE.-Inereaseel activity is observable in this mar-
ket, and this week the public sales have been pretty large.
Jamaicas have sold at firm prices. Fine and fine ordinary
sorts sold 2s. higher, the grocers being buyers. Low to
middling Berbice sold from 50s. to 575. Mocha has sus-
tained no further fill, about 160 bales fetching GOs. to
SOs. per cwt. Coloury Foreign Coffees are in demand ;
but there are very few in the market. Ordinary Bengal
are at 31e. St. Domingo pale good ordinary, 31. 6d. to
329. Gil.

THE TEA SALE.—The Sale of Teas at the India
House is proceeding with great animation, and, up to this
morning, 31,915 chests have passed. The demand is
very active. As far as the sale has proceeded advanced
prima have been paid. Boheas have gone off about 2d. ;
ditto, Congou Packages, from 3d. to 4d. ; and Congous
'2d. per lb. dearer than last sale. It is understood that
the East India Company, owing to the suspension of the
trade to China, do not, for the present, intend to get ready
any further ships to proceed to that quarter.
TILE SILK TRADE.—There is rather inure doing in

this market ; of Persian Silks several parcels have been
taken off at 9s. Gd. per lb., the stock is at present smaller
than it has lo,en ►or some time past ; China Silks are heavy,
owing to the quantity arrived. The delivery last month
was pretty large.
Rum..—There is a great want of activity in this market,
attributable chiefly to the uncertainty which exi,ts as to
whether any alteration will be made in the dit,y on
British Spirits. The prices are nearly nominal.
SALTrETICE is firun—By public sale fine Madras has
brought 325. unretracted, and 500 bags of I3engal at 3'7s.
Gd. to 3Ss. per cwt. refracted.
Hors.---The accounts this morning from the planta-
tions are favourable—the bine is strong and growing

rapidly, notwithstanding the prevalence of fly. The duty
is now called 120,0001., about a fortnight ago it was only
90,000/. The market is heavy.
flumr an:l FLAX remain the same. •

TILE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Extract of a letter from Matanzas :—" A large Spanish
Guineaman, with 300 slaves on board, was chased on
shore by his Britannic Majesty's schooner Pincher, but
she succeeded in landing all her slaves, got off, and ar-
rived here. The Captain of the Pincher has demanded
her of the Governor, but the ltvter refuses to give her up."
The Buenos Ayres Papers of the 9th March state that
the number of British subjects of all ages now resident in
the province of Buenos Ayres is estimated at about 4,000.
Count Montlevault, Prefect of the department of Cal-
vados, in France, has published a proclamation, in which
he states that an imposing force is on its way to the de-
partments of Calvados and La Manche, likewise two regi-
ments of the Royal Guard.
Accounts front Colieza (Hungary) of 3d May state,
that the above town for these last six weeks was en irely
under water, owing to the inundations; and since 16th
March tla: Danube has broken its embankments in several
places, and more than 190 houses Live been carried au ay.
Accounts from Lisbon :41ention that the French Consul
was on the eve of leaving the above capital.