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1. That the late progress made in the mechanical arts,
in chemistry, and in various other sciences, has rendered
manual labour less necessary, and therefore less valuable,
in a commercial point of view, than formerly.
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2. That manual labour being, as society is now consti-
tuted, the only medium through which the industrious
class can obtain the means of support, the reduction in
the commercial value of labour has necessarily produced
among them the great and general distress at present pre-
vailing.
3. That the commercial value of manual labour having,
in agriculture and in many branches of manufacture, sunk
to its minimum, while the extension of scientific power
still rapidly increases, commercial affairs are, in consequence
speedily rulvancing to a crisis ; the approach of which is
viewed by the middle and working classes (a number com-
prising two-thirds of the whole population) with feelings
of the utmost anxiety and alarm.
4. That, under the existing commercial system, it is
impossible that manual labour should ever again success-
fully compete with the powers of science.
5. That the working class, as the only practicable, and
at the same time peaceable, mode of ameliorating their
condition, will be compelled to adopt a system of mutual
exchange of labour for labour, and thereby render them-
selves at once independent of the non producing classes.
6. That this measure, if generally adopted by the
working class, would create great confusion and misery
among the non-producing classes, as their wealth would
thus lose the adventitious or relative value it now possesses.
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quences above-mentioned, yet, that, if carried into effect
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the aid of the higher classes, and under the sanction of
attended
Government, the introduction of the measure would pro-
duce time must permanently beneficial results to the whole
population.
8. That the physical and mental, as well as the scientific
powers of society, are now so misdirected, that enormous
evils, moral, political, and commercial, are entailed upon
all classes.

9. That these evils are daily upon the increase ; any:
that the sufferings which they have created, are such ,

to mite arum a large portion of the community to
ardent desire for a thorough change hi the system of
society.
10. That, without a union of interests am,sng all classts.
a right direction cannot be given to the recently augaiented
s ientific powers; and that this union can only be effort. .1
by means of an entire change in the moral, political, ,c,l
commercial constitution of society.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

COUNTRY BANKERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU

Sit:,—The theories of political economists wilt
generally be found delusive, because instead of le:Kld
ing the mind to, they abstract it from, a correct
view of the existing order of things. Whateve
point be raised, or principle advanced, the super.
structure too often reposes on a base of untraceable
originality.
As society advances in civilization, and commer-
cial acquirements, rules, and regulations in adapta-
tion therewith supersede the shackled movements
of primitive operations, in contradistinction thereto,
these changes are properly called artificial. It ii
this ingredient, I assume, that should claim the
calm consideration of reforming economists, in order
that anomalies and abuses therein may be corrected.
The disease meets not a remedy, if the good and bad
be indiscriminately cast away.
Taxation must necessarily produce, according to
its extent, more or less of artificial arrangements in
the currency, or circulating medium, and where the
foreign and domestic relations of commerce are un-
limited, it follows, that if this medium be too much
restricted, commerce will decline, confidence cease,
and distress ensue. If, instead of interdicting the
circulation of provincial one pound notes, due secu-
rities and limitations had been required, much of
the present embarrassed state of our home trade
would have been avoided.

The relative situations of the London and country
banker are essentially different, the one lends or dis-
counts from the funds constituting balances in his
hands,
soh)g the
his
notes.othe
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ha
et
distress lin such resources)
echoingfrorn almostbyis
every town in the kingdom may be traced to the
stoppage of these commercial aids, in other words,
telling the provinces they are to be deprived of the
necessary facilities of carrying on trade. Let the
trade of London, in like manner, be checked, and
ere a " little month" shall have passed dreadful
would be the consequences; hence that which has
raised to commercial importance so large a portion
of the Empire is to succumb to every principle

but one, namely, common sense.
Revulsion' in commerce have been ascribed to
provincial circulation, as well might they be attri-
buted to the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, unless
the latter be figured to the London speculative
capitalists. Whatever of good can be rendered
available in the machinery of society requires the
fostering care of governments. This feeling is
strikingly displayed in Great Britain, the genius
and energies of the people being protected by each
branch of the Legislature. States have fallen from
neglecting the means which produce benefits to
mankind, for in seeking their own glory they be-
came reckless of the foundations on which the well-
being of the people could be sustained.
The drama of political economy exhibits various
plots, without the incidental causes that led to them.
The rocks of Scylla and Charybdis seem harmless
when compared to the Protean character "currency"
is made to assume ; whether clothed in gold or tine
linen, the evils of mankind are all traced to this
hydra. If a paper currency represent the value for
which it be given, and legal convertible responsi-
bility rests somewhere, the provincial ene pound
note is in principle the same as a bill of exchange,
local circumstances marking the relative distinction ;
and as before stated, if due limits be fixed thereto,
gold and paper would move together, and the ex-
changes never materially be affected. The difference
in the value of the guinea and one pound note, so
often adverted to, arose out of existing circumstances,
and the peculiar situation of the country at those
particular periods.
The senseless cry of "cheap commodities" is
prominent in the vocabulary of every political eco-
nomist. The way to. arrive at this desideratum is
not by annihilating the means of creating them. If
the materials of the reforming code be fairly exa-
mined, I fear there will be found more of a rest-
less desire for a change generally than of patriotism,
or legislative discrimination.
Much has been said, in and out of Parliament,
about loss to the holders of provincial 11. notes. If
the aggregate amount of dividends from the estates
of country bankers exceed 17s. in the pound, and
the great benefits that have been derived to the
country by the circulation of their notes be duly
considered, the fallacy of such arguments, in a com-
mercial view, will be fully established.
I have no cffering to make at the shrine of wealth.
Of country bankers I have scarcely any knowledge,
but as regards what has erroneously been imputed
to them, I am of opinion (for the reasons alleged)
that they are not only blameless, but entitled to the
gratitude of their country.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
OBSERVATOR.

At a meeting of the overseers and other prin.
eipal inhabitants of a parish a short distance from WO-
lington, in this county, it was agreed that the sum of
7s. 6d. be paid to dispel the effects of sorcery upon a
poor fellow labouring under epileptic fits !—Shroesbury
Chronicle.

ORIGIN OF FAIRLOP FAIR.—TO the dose
observer, and active searcher after eccentricity, how Dome-
runs are the instances which this great and populous metro-
polis presents for the gratification of appetite, and how
frequently will the good-natured inquirer find at once his
curiosity satisfied and his feelings interested for the sub-
ject of his research. The individual whom we are abou
to notice, is no longer amongst us, but his name is still
recollected by those who reside in the neighbourhood
where he dwelt, and one of his eccentric ads laid the
foundation of a custom, which has since afforded one day
annually of mirth and festivity to thousands : we allude
to the late celebrated Mr. DANIEL DAY, the eminent
block-maker, of Wapping, to whom Fairlop fair owes its
origin. Mr. Dar sv,,s the possessor of a small estate
situate in Essex, and in the immediate vicinity of that re-
nowned oak, which for ages sustained the above title. To
this venerable tree, it was Mr. DAY'S custom, on the
first Friday in July, annually to repair, accompanied by
a party of his friends and acquaintance, and under the
shade of its widely-spreading branches to give his friends
a repast, consisting of beans and bacon, with a quantum
sttif of good ale and punch to raise their spirits, and
many a time has tl:e silence of the sylvan scene been
affrighted and put to flight by the echoes of the merry song
and jocund laugh which were sent forth by the happy
group which invariably surrounded the hospitable board
of Mr. D•Y upon his anniversary. The fame of Mr.
DAY'S harmless celebration, however, in time spread
abroad, and other parties were formed to meet him, and
to participate in the honours of the sitting ; the founder
of the feast never failed to provide a bountiful supply of
beans and bacon, which be himself distributed from that
which served him for " kitchen, parlour, and hall," the
trunk of the old oak. Amongst those who followed
him were a party consisting of about forty of the
block-masters of Wapping, denominating themselves
" DAY'S Alen," who, determined to follow in the
path of their leader, and do things in a singular
style, used to travel from Wapping to Fairlop over
dry land, in a vessel resembling an Indian canoe, hol-
lowed out of one piece of fir, covered with an awn-
ing, mounted upon a four-wheeled carriage, and drawn by
six horses; and this practice they continued for many
years, even after the fair Was established, and bad become
the resort of thousands of the inhabitants of the metro-
polis. A few days before the death of Mr. Dsr, his fa-
vourite oak was shorn of one of i:s largest branches by a
violent storm, out of which Mr. DAY had a coffin made
for himself, and in which, upon his death, at the age of
84, his remains were deposited. In the course of his life
he was once thrown from his horse, and once overturned
in a carriage; and fearful that such a mischance might
overtake his remains after death, if he ran the hazard of a,
vehicular or equestrian conveyance to the place of inter-
ment by land, his corpse was, according to his own direc-
tion, conveyed by water to Barking, accompanied by six
journeymen block and pump-makers, to each of whom be
bequeathed by will a guinea and a new leathern apron
Such was the origiii of Fairlop fair.--.Countx7c4oThick.

IRELAND.

PASTORAL ADDRESS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCH-

BISHOP AND BISHOPS TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY

OF THEIR COMMUNION THROUGHOUT IRELAND.
The Archbishops and Bishops, whose names are under-
signed, to the Clergy and People of the Catholic Church
of Ireland, health and' benediction.
Beloved brethren in Christ Jesus,

Being assembled in Dublin to deliberate, as our custom
is, on our own duties and the sacred interests confided to
our care, we are urged by the charity of God, and the
love we hear you, to address to you the following brief
instruction.

And first we give thanks to (toil and the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that net only '-du continue to be of one
mind labouring together in the faith of the Gospel, but
also that this Gospel intreases and fructifies amongst you,
en that your Improvement is manifest to all, whilst your
faith is spoken of throuehout the entire world. I3e mind-
ful, however, that "neither he that plahteth is any thing,
ktl/4r he that watereth, but facet that giveth the increase."
I Car. iii. 7. As also, that "be that shall persevere
unto the earls he shall be saved." Matt. x. 22.
Indeed) belotted brethren, the present should be to us
and to yen an acceptable time, not only on =Count of
tour edvaneement in virtue, but also beeatise our divine
religion has of late been sotneWhat relieved, and your civil
rights greatly extended. since we last addrested you, a
great and bentneent and healing measure has been enacted
by the Legislature for your relief.
Only last year, and this Country was agitated from end
to end, and from ita extremities to its very centre. The
dominion of the passions prevailed over the dominion of
the law; and men born to love each other contended to
almost the shedding of each other's blood ; the public in-
terests were neglected 'at forgotten ; the ties of kindred
were broken ; the power of Government was weakened,
the laws thettlselves were paralysed, and religion, which
MYed to t:tettee passion and consolidate the public peace,
was %teal:ale freely to discharge her functions. It was at
tide time that he, by whom kings reign and legislators
decree just thing's, arose, and as it were, said to the sea be
still, and to the north wind do not blow. Our gracious
and beloved Sovereign, walking in the footsteps of his
Royal Father, (whose memory be ever cherished,) com-
miserated the state of Ireland, and resolved to confer upon
her the ieestimable blessing of religious peace. This great
boon became the more acceptable to this country, because,
among the councillors of his Majesty, there appeared con-
spicuous the most distinguished of Ireland's own stns,—a
hero and a legislator—a man selected by the Almighty to
break the rod which had scourged Europe—a man raised
up by Providence to content thrones, to re-establish altars,
to direct the councils of England at a crisis the most diffi-
cult, and to stench the blood and heal the wounds of the.
country Which gave him birth. An enlightened and wise
Parlientent perfected what the Sovereign and his council-
lors commenced, and already the effects of their wisdom
and justice are visible and duly appreciated by all the wise
and good. The storm which almost wrecked the country
has subsided, whilst social order, with peace and justice in
her train, prepares to establish her sway in this long die-
traded Country.

And is not the King, irloved brethren, whom by the law
of God we are hound to honour, entitled now to all the
honour and all the obedience, and all the gratitude you can
bestow ? And do not his Ministers merit from you a con-
fidence commensurate with the labours and the zeal ex-
pended by them on your behalf? And that Legislature
which raised you up from your prostrate condition, and
gave to you without reserve all the privileges you desired—
is not that Legislature entitled to your reverence and love?
We confide that your feelings on this subject are in unison
with our own, anti that a steady attachment to the consti-
tution and laws of your country, as well as to the person
and government of our most gracious Sovereign, will be
manifeated in your entire conduct.
Labour, therefore, in all things to promote the end which
the Legislature contemplated in passing this Bill for your
relief,—to wit, the pacification and improvement of Ire-
land. Let religious discord cease,---let party feuds and
civil dissensions he no more heard of,—let rash, and un-
just, and illegal oaths be not even named amongst you;
and if sowers of discord or sedition should attempt to
trouble your repose, seek for a safeguard against them in
the protection afforded by the law.
Be sober and watch, so that no one may have evil to say
of you ; give way to anger rather than contend with an
adversary, so that nothing on your part may be wanting to
promote peace and good-will among all classes and de-
seriptions of the Irish people.
To our venerable brethren the clergy, of whatsoever
degree, we propose, with reference to what here follows,
our own example : they will copy it into their lives, and
adhere to it as a rule of conduct. We united our efforts
with those of the laity, in seeking to attain their
just rights, and to attain them without a com-
promise of the freedom of our church. Success at-
tended our united efforts, because reason, and justice, and
religion, and the voice of mankind were upon our side.
We rejoice at the result, regardless of those provisions in
the great measure of relief which injuriously affect our-
selves, and not only us, but those religious orders which
the church of God, even from the Apostolic times, has
nurtured and cherished in her bosom. These provisions,
however, which were, as we hope and believe, a sacrifice
required, not by reason or policy, but by prejudices hold-
ing captive the minds of even honest men, did not pre-
vent us from rejoicing at the good which was effected
for our country. But we rejoiced at that result, not
snore on public grounds than we did because we
found ourselves discharged from a duty which ne-
cessity alone bad allied to our ministry—a duty
imposed on us by a state of times which has passed,
but a duty which we have gladly relinquished, in
the fee went hope that by us or by our successors
it may not be resumed. These are the sentiments
which the spirit of nor calling inspires, they are the sen-
timents which never ceased to animate us, and which our
clergy, always obedient to our voice, will cherish long with
us, that, as the Apostle commands, " all may say the same
thing, and there may be no divisions amongst us."
As to the rest, beloved brethren, clergy and laity, we
charge you to be steadfast in the faith ; preserve this faith
unimpaired and unsullied, for it is " a best gift from
above," (James i. 17), and surpasses all whatsoever this
earth or its rulers can bestow. Be not weakened by dis-
tress, or influenced by seduction. Guard from danger the
children of your affection, whom our Father in heaven Las
confided to your care. Let no wild fanaticism, alike
injurious to the Church and to the state, find access to
your families, or be blended with the education of your
children. Hope with us, that upon this subject of educa-
tion our reiterated prayers, founded as they are upon justice
and the public good, will be heard favourably bya Govern-
ment and Legislature anxious only to promote the public
interest and consolidate the public peace.
Beloved brethren, farewell ! And may the peace of
God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts
and minds in Christ Jesus.—Phil. iv. 7.
Given at Dublin, Feb. 9.
PATRICK CURTIS, D.D. D. MURRAY,
OLIVER. KELLY, D.D. ROBERT LAIFAN,
w. COPPINGEI, D.D. MICH. COLLINS, D.D.

CORNELIUS EGAN, P.D. WM. KINSELLA, D.D.
P. M`LAUGHLIN, D.D. W. 31. HIGGINS, D.D.
JOHN MURPHY, D.D. EDMOND FRENCH, D.D.
JOHN RYAN, D.D. JAMES BROWN, D D.
PAT. M`MAIION, D.D. ROBERT LOGAN, D.O.
P. M'GETTIGAN, D.D. EDWD. KERNAN, D.D.
JAMES KEATING, D.D. JOHN M4HALE, D.D.
JAMES DOYLE, D.D. THOS. COSTELLO, D D.
WM. CROLLY, D.D. F. McNICHOLAS, D.D.
THOMAS COEN, D.D. N. FORAN, D.D. V. C.
THOMAS KELLY, D.D.

It turns out, after all, and may now, we be-
lieve, be stated on very good authority, that the contract
for a loan of 2,000,0001. to the Brazilian Government,
entered into with Mr. MABER,Lv by the Marquis BAR-
BACENA previous to his departure from England, is not
to be ratified. One reason assigned for this is, that by
the Constitution of Brazil, no money transactions can be
entered into without first obtaining the sanction of the
Chambers, which do not assemble until the month of
May next ; but as this fact must have been perfectly
known to the Marquis BARBACENA before he put his
name to the contract, it can hardly, we should imagine,
be the true cause. Some of the merchants are of opi-
nion tbat.BAßßAcEsra, on his arrival at Rio, found the
situation of the Government in respect to credit so
much better than he anticipated when he left England,
that he declined pressing his contract on the attention of
the Ministry. The affair has, however, some circum-
stances of mystery still attached to it, which cannot be
cleared up Without some further information on the
subject. It is doubted whether any other contract is
pending for a loan of any such magnitude to Brazil,
and hence it is inferred that the cause of the young
Queen of Portugal is not to receive that effective sup-
port from her father which his change of Ministry, brought
about by removing all those who were opposed to such
course of policy, had led most persons interested to anti-
grip*

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1830.

A Deputation, consisting of several gentle-
men connected with the Iron Trade, and headed
by Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY, Bart., and Mr.
LITTLETON, M.P., had a long interview with
Mr. HERRIES, at the Office of the Board of
Trade, this morning.

The following are extracts from Hamburg and
Dutch Papers of the 9th and 13th inst.:—

ritom THE NEVA, JAN. 20.

A report is in circulation here of a detailed note deli-
vered by our Government to Lord Heytesburv, which is
said to relate to the affairs of Greece. Our Government
it is said firmly insists that for the present no change what-
ever shall he made in the Government of Greece, but that
the administration of that country must be left to the inde-
fatigable zeal of the unpretending and humane President.
The choice of a ruler it is added ought to be left to the
wishes and the will of the Greek nation, without the in-
terference of any of the great Powers. It is even affirmed
that the Sultan has expressed a similar opinion.—
Well informed persons affirm that this and other questions
relative to the general affairs of. Europe will probably be
discussed in a general Congress of Ministers to meet at
Berlin. Active exertions are making to complete our
army in the East, the detachments of new troops and the
officers lately appointed are ordered to proceed to their de-
stination as quickly as the rigour of the season will permit,
and it is said that none of the commanding Generals will
have leave of absence granted them.

COPENHAGEN, FEE. 2.

The bulletins relative to the health of her Royal High-
ness the Princess Caroline communicate the agreeable in-
telligence, that though her Royal Highness still suffers
from the injury she sustained from the fire, she is, how-
ever, recovering.

F RANK FO ItT, FEE. 3.

M. Von Munch Bellinghausen, the President of the
Diet, lass not yet returned to this city. It is affirmed that
the Diet will have its decree against the Duke of Bruns-
wick carried into effect. Great curiosity is excited with
regard to the steps that will be adopted. We hear nothing
of any other matters that ate to come before the Diet.

HAMBURG, FEB. 9.

BoasEN-HALL, HALF-PAST Foca O'CLOCK.—Our
Stock Market has been very heavy since Saturday, in
consequence of the fall of the Neapolitan Funds in Paris.
Falconets have been as low as 90, and are now quoted at
91i. Funds are, generally speaking, in demand. Some-
thing has lately been done in Greek Bonds. Discount, 2A-
per cent.

End of February.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent 73%,,
Anglo-Russian Loan lfs{
Hamburg-Russian Loan
Polish Bonds 124
Austrian Bank Shares 1284

Austrian Metalhone; lo3.ii
New Austrian 4 per Cents.
Anglo Neapolitan
Falconets -

HANIBURG, JAN. 31.

In a General Assembly of the Citizens on the 28th
instant, it was resolved that the import duties on goods
brought by sea, which were only 1 per cent., are reduced
to per cent. The duties on all fruits brought from the
south are to be reduced one-third of their present amount
at the end of April this year. The importation of raw zinc,
and of raw cotton and wool, is wholly free. The first
duty produced, during the last five years, on an average
772,198 marks per annum ; and the great diminution of
the revenue which the city will thus experience must be
made good by other means.
_ _

VIE HAGUE, FEB. 11.

His Majesty's frigate Eurydice is put into commission,
and the command of her given to Captain J. E. Lewe
Van Aduard.

HAARLEM, FEB. 10.

We hear that last Friday and Saturday the ice in the
Niewe Diep was immovable, a circumstance which the
oldest people do not remember to have seen before.

An animated discussion took place, last night,
in the House of Commons on the subject of
Greece, in the course of which Mr. PEEL, in
answer to a question put by Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL, observed, "the arrangement now in pro-
gress fbr the independence, happiness, and se-
curity of Greece, is in my opinion much more
favourable than that which was contemplated in
the Protocol. The territorial limits may be
less extensive, but the compensation for the
more confined limits will, I think, he found
ample. The boundaries will include all
those places with which our historical re-
collections are gratefully associated." Mr.
PEEL here implies that the territorial limits of
Greece will be less extensive than those con-
templated in the Protocol, which, be it ob-
served, assigned Arta and Vola as the boun-
daries of the new State. If this be really the

Case—if Greece is to be thus miserably crippled,
with what justice can Mr. PEEL assert that the
" boundaries will include all those places with
which our historical recollections are grate-
fully associated ?" Thessaly and Epirus—
Thessaly in particular, the most hallowed
spot in all ancient Greece, celebrated as
the birth-place of H ONI ER'S Achilles, asso-
ciated with the recollections of Pyrrha, Deuca-
lion, and the Deluge, and including within its
limits the classic vale of Tempe, the equally
classic river of Peneus, and above all, Mount
Olympus, the heaven of the Grecian Deities—
and Epirus, where flourished the oracular grove
of Dodona, linked for ever in poetic tradition
with Jason and his Argonautic expedition ; these
two immortal regions are, it seems, to be shutout
from the territorial limits of the new state.
But not only is this to be the case, but the Island
of Candia—the ancient Crete, the cradle of the
Dictman Jupiter, and the original site of the
early Greek mythology--is to be shut out also;
and yet Mr. PEEL comes forward and states that
the new boundaries will include all those places
with which our historical recollections are grate-
fully associated ! ! Had it not been for this
poetic flourish of the Might Hon. Secretary, we
should scarcely have noticed the subject at this
length ; but as he has thought fit to take credit
to himself for what he knows cannot possibly be
effected, so long as the spirit of the Protocol is
crippled and defaced, we hold it our duty to
place his declaration in its proper light and rate
it at its just worth.
With regard to Candia, Lord PALM ERSTON'S
remarks on this subject were admirable, and
what is better still, unanswerable. There can
never be peace for the new Government so long
as an island within a day or two's sail of the
main seat of Government is permitted to be at
the beck of a foreign power, from time immemo-
rial the unwearied foe to Greece. The degrada-
tion of Candia, which, as the old Crete, no
lover of his country's genius, can ever look on
with an indifferent eye, must always be a reflec-
tion on the patriotism of the new State, and as
such they will strain every nerve to rescue it. We
hope, however, they will have uo occasion for
complaint on this head.

If the abolition of the Philosophical College
of Louvain was a well timed act of conciliation
towards the Catholic Party in Belgium, the re-
newal of the peisecutions of the Brussels Press
is a measure which must defeat any attempt of
the Netherlands Government to recover that
popularity which it has lost by its own ill-ad.
vised conduct. We now hear that M. M.
DE POTTER, COCHE-MONIENS, and VANDER-
STRAETTEN, the two former of whom are the
leading writer and printer of the Courier des
Pays Bas, and the latter the editor of Le Beige
(two Liberal Journals, which with another called
La Belgique, represent the sentiments of the
whole population of Brussels, and are widely
spread throughout Belgium), have been visited
with prosecutions, the first step of which has
been to consign them to dungeons of the most
ignominious kind, for having encouraged the
people to subscribe, in order to raise a sum of
money to indemnify for the loss of their places,
a number of public functionaries who have lately
been dismissed from their offices for voting against
the Government. This proceeding takes place
under a forced construction of the law against
sedition, unexampled perhaps for its perversion
of the spirit of that law, and for its infringement
upon those fundamental rights without which
liberty cannot exist.
As a proof of the state of feeling in Brussels,
it is remarkable that, besides the official Gazette
des Prigs Bas, which emanates directly from the
King's Palace, the Government has lately set up
three Journals, Le Sentinelle, Le National, and
117/Tart/a, which it has paid for defending its
measures, but has totally failed in obtaining for
them a circulation. At Liege, Ghent, Antwerp,
and the other provincial towns, it is only the
Liberal Journals that meet with readers, and the
degree in which they have annoyed the Govern-
ment may well be conceived. His MAJESTY
now appears determined to put them down at
all hazards, and has again commenced operations
upon the Brussels Papers, although they have
actually done nothing more than recommended
the people to do that which they have a legal
right to do, namely, to raise a public subscrip-
tion for the use of whatever persons they please.
This right is surely as sacred as that of the
Government to dismiss its own servants fbr
thwarting its own measures, and in the present
case does not go any thing like the length of the
Irish Catholic Rent, which, by a Ministry dis-
posed to continue the oppression of Ireland,
must have been regarded with the utmost appre-
hension. Here the Belgic Papers have done
no more than we should, supposing (what we
have assuredly no intention of doing) we had
attempted to persuade the public to subscribe to
indemnify General KING for his late loss of his
place in the KING'S household. The King of
the NETHERLANDS is using all the means he
can to goad his people to insurrection, and if the
eventual alienation from him of a part of his do-
minions would be viewed with alarm by other
European Powers, it is time that those Powers
should at least employ some friendly admo-
nitions which might tend to secure the perma-
nence of the kingdom of the Netherlands as
established by the Treaty of Vienna.

It is the intention of Government, we under-
stand, to extend the system of bonding from the principal
outports into the interior of the country—a plan which
will, it is conceived, be a material accommodation to
the retail traders throughout England. At present, if
sugar, coffee, or any other article of general consumption
is purchased in London or Liverpool by the retail
dealer, it cannot he released from bond until the whole
of the duty is paid, and the advance from his capital
becomes consequently much larger than will be requi-
site if this plan is adopted, as he will then be permitted
to pay the duty, as he removes the articles from bond for
the purposes of trade. As the duty is generally as much
and frequently more than the import value of the article,
this is equal to an accommodation to that extent of a loan
without interest, and will make the trader less dependent
than heretofore upon the local banks fur assistance, which
is probably one object of the measure. It is equivalent,
therefore, to an increase of the circulation without any of
its attendant evile.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,..(THI

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, FEE. 16.—Wind S.E.--Remain the Albion,
from Singapore, and the Faith, Jackson, from St. Kitts.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind S.E.--Arrived the
Albion, Burrell, from Cephalonia.
PLYMOUTH, Fza. 15.—Wind E.—Sailed the Eliza-
beth, for Gibraltar. Arrived the Resource, Smith, from
the Mauritius; the Eliza, Snell, and the Telemachus,
Molter, from St. Michael's.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wind E.—Sailed the Genii,
Wells, for Van Dieman's Land; the Agenoria,
for Vera Cruz; and the Antelope, Hampson, for Corfu.
Arrived the Amity, Speers, from Barbadoes.

The Alice, Burnett, from Van Dieman's Land, has
arrived at Plymouth, sailed the 14th September.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Ten casks of oil, marked on the
bung S. I. S. have been picked lip and landed here.

NEWHAVEN, Fen. 16.—The Jane, Good, from Oporto
to London, which was on shore under Beachy Head, was
eot off yesterday afternoon by the assistance of a steam
vessel, after discharging about ISO casks of %vine, which
are deposited at Eastbourne, and she has been brought here
and is discharging the rest of her cargo. Part of the
lower tier supposed to be bilged.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

Papers from Van Dieman's Land, to the 12th of Sept.,
have been received at the North and South American Coffee-
house.

(From the Tasmanian, from Sydney the 14th Aug.)
We lament to state, that the affairs of the sister colony ap
pear to he of the two somewhat worse than our town. The
times of Sydney are very bad, the whole town is in a state
little better than a bankruptcy, and the merchants are at a
stand what to do.

We are happy to state that the Old Bank is. going on
prosperously ; the dividend was 8 per cent. for the half
year, and 34- per cent. for a sinking fund to increase the
capital. The Government has issued an order, that in
future no foreign coin of any description shall be received
in payment by any of the public departments.
Tt:c Hobart Town Papers, to the 13th of September,
state from Sydney, 4th of August, that the price of wheat
was Ils. to 12s. per bushel. There was a violent storm
at Sydney on the Ist of August.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 15.—We had but few country
dtalers in our timber market this week. Though
the weather has become more mild, the inland navigation
is not yet completely open, and the dealers expect to pur-
chose at a reduction in the prices. There has been some
inquiry for Indigo—the prices are well supported.