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London, England, 1830-04-01 00:00:00

with the Porte may l;e wholly dis,olved. However; let
what will happen to us, we Were lx.fure so miserable, that
any change in our political condition most be for the better,
and be considered by us a, a benefit for which we are in-
debted to the magnanimous Sovereign of Russia.

V/KNNA, lIAP.CH

The Paella of Belgrade will no longer allow the ringing
of the bells, and has ordered that to be taken down which
was in the Illyrian Church in the Raisin town. This has
been done. The circumstance has been reported to Prince
Milosh Ohrenovich.

It is a remark of GALIANI, an Italian writer,

:hat the corn laws of every country take their
one from the spirit of the Government. Where

;he Aristocracy predominates in the Legislature,

as with us, it is therefore natural that the corn
laws should likewise be aristocratic in principle,
or designed to enrich the landed interest at the
expense of the community. It however by no
means follows that the landed proprietors benefit
in the long run front measures intended to pre-
vent their incomes from falling, which are in-
jurious to the general industry of the country,
and in this light the corn laws are beginning to
be viewed by the enlightened part of the Country
Gentlemen. Lord KING and Sir FRANCIS

BURDETT in particular, lately expressed them-
selves in a manner which shewed them to be not

less alive to the real welfare of the landed inte-
rest, than conversant with the sound principles

of public economy.
There never was a greater delusion than to
suppose it necessary for the security of a country
from the risk of want, that it should grow its corn
upon its own soil, any more than its wine, sugar,
or tobacco. The Roman Empire at the height
of its power was dependent upon foreign sup-
plies, and to enact that the principal article of
subsistence shall only be produced in the country
itself, is to provide in effect that the industry and
wealth of the people shall at no time exceed a
certain point. It is equally absurd in principle
as to declare that the supply of corn shall only
come from a single county, for both a particular
county, and the whole country, are from their
limits inadequate to afford corn at the cheapest
possible rate. The position in which the Go-
vernment stands with regard to the Aristocracy,
often makes it necessary for Ministers to resort
to specious defences of abuses, which their
means of knowledge must have satisfied them
are untenable ; such as the allusions made by
the Duke of 'WELLINGTON to the prohi-
bitory system of NAPOLEON, and the disposition
of foreign Sovereigns to prohibit the exportation
of corn at the present time. Surely his Grace
must have forgotten Mr. JACOB'S Reports,
which so clearly establish the fact of the very
earnest wish of the Prussian and Danish Govern-
ments to have a regular market for their pro-
duce in Great Britain, and of the necessity they
have been under to encourage manufactures, be-
cause their agricultural produce cannot now find
a vent ! To suppose that:foreign nations can
have any motive for refusing to sell us their
produce, at the very time when a scarcity in Eng-
land would yield them a higher price for it, is
contrary both to all experience and all reason.
Lord ABERDEEN expressed on Tuesday
night his determination to support the Recipro-
city system, and shewed the continuing increase
of our mercantile shipping. Whether our
tonnage had of late years increased or decreased,
the necessity and usefulness of the Reciprocity
system would have been exactly the same, for it
was adopted because we were driven to it by the
refusal of foreign powers to trade with us
on unequal terms. It may be very well for
such statesmen as Lord STANHOPE to indulge
in idle declamations against speculative theories ;
but the fact was, that the Prussian and Ameri-
can Governments had expressed their determina-
tion not to submit to the discriminating duties
and regulations with which we were accustomed
to tax their ships, and a change in our policy
was imperatively required for the preservation of
our commerce. We have derived much benefit
from the free system of trade so far as it has
gone ; but we should have received far more if
free trade principles had been fully, instead of
partially carried into effect. The greatest of all
the obstructions to the working of those prin-
ciples is the Corn Law—which is equivalent to
a tax of twenty millions a year upon the coun-
try—and is in its nature a thousand times more
injurious than if impositions to that amount
were directly levied, in addition to the rest of our
burthens.

Dr. ROBERT LEE, Physician to the British
Lying-in-Hospital, was on the 25th March elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
TOTTENHAM-STREET THEATRE.—A new
two-act melo-drame, called the :air Maid of Lyon►,
was produced at this house het night. It is a translation
(if we mistake not) from a French piece, played some few
years ago, at the Theatre du Vaudeville, with complete
success. Like most of the serious French dramas, its sen-
timentality is of an exceedingly mawkish character—nor is
it all relieved by incident; however, as it is short, and
remarkably well acted, it will serve as an occasional stop-
gap. VINING and Miss A. TREE were warmly applauded.
The house was crowded at half-price. Madame VESTRIS
and her shadow, Mr. P—, were in one of the private
bores.

A paragraph has found its way into the News-
papers, stating that 140 new Dormitories had been con-
structed at Christ Church Hospital, and that there would,
in consequence, be 140 new presentations. It turns out
that there are no new presentations, as the 140 new dor-
mitories are in place of 140 old ones pulled down.

'The weavers who are emigrating to the United
States have received acecunts from their friends that the
kind of cloth which in this country is paid at 2i-d. an ell,
is paid in New Yor Si. It wool,l require a pretty
heavy tariff to co difference..-,Glasgow Cron.