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London, England, 1825-10-25 00:00:00

TUE LONDON JOURNALS.

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Eittracts from tire illqinini;• Papers, Oct.'2s, 1825.

[THE TIMES.]
Various draughts of petitions have been sub-
mitted to use one and all affirming-the oppression
of the Corn Laws to be the real source and only
justification of the disputes between manufac-
turers and their men. We do not go the length
of these petitions, so far as concerns the above
statement of opinion, because we feel satisfied
that some of the disturbances which have recently
alarmed the country have been got up and pro-
longed by scheming incendiaries, with no pur-
pose under Heaven but that of supporting them-
selves in an artificial state of affluence, idleness,
and power. But the objects of the petitions—
namely, the removal of the Corn Laws—we need,
not say has our full and hearty concurrence. In
fact, the monopoly inflicted upon the people
in that vital article of public subsistence, is no-
thing less than a tax upon the exports of Great
Britain, and a bounty to the manufactures of all
foreign nations in their rivalship with ours. When
the journeymen quarrel with their masters
for more wages, the argument of greatest
-weight that can be thought of is the ten-
dency of overgrown wages to curtail or
destroy the manufacture itself, and thus to
reduce to absolute want the parties who have
insisted on an unreasonable share of the
joint profits of capital and labour. So it is with
the State, which insists on the journeyman paying
too much for his bread, and therefore compels
the master to raise the wages, or to lose his work-
men : the State itself commits the very folly
'which the combining journeymen are charged
Keith,--viz. that of driving its own manufactures
out of every foreign market. And to what amount
is this tax, equally cruel and impolitic ? Why,
assuredly not less than 20s. at the lowest on
every quarter of corn ; for the average price of
wheat on the Continent of Europe is certainly
'very seldom within 255. of its value in the market
here. If, then, the consumption of the United
Kingdom he 12 million quarters, here is a tax at
one stroke of 12,000,0001. on the national indus-
try of Great Britain,—at the moment, too, when
we are diminishing the duties of importation on
the manufactures of Foreign States; thus creat-
ing a double bounty in favour of foreigners, and
exposing our own manufacturing interests to a
double peril ! The thing cannot stand,—it is
physically impossible.

CHRONICLI.I
It is very confidently stated, that the remon-
strances of the Government of Spain and its sup-
porters, against the purchase and equipment of
two ships of the line, in a port in Sweden, by
one of the Independent States of South America,
have had the effect of suspending or rather an-
nulling the contract, and, it is added, that the
earnest money paid on account of the purchase,
has been returned. We have not heard which
of the Continental Powers befriended Ferdinand
in this negociation ; but the result shews, that
the present King of Sweden stands in awe of the
Holy Alliance.

The Anniversary (Ist October) of the Free-
dom of King Ferdinand, and Royal Family li-
berated from the hands of the Constitutionalists
in Cadiz, is now regularly kept in Spain, with the
Liberal solemnities of a dress-levee, Te Deurns in
the Churches, salutes, reviews, and illuminations
in the evening. The last anniversary at the Pa-
lace of San Lorenzo and in Madrid is represented
as having been very brilliant, and the felicitations
of the Foreign Ambassadors at Court, on this
memorable occasion, were extremely pointed and
flattering.—(/bid.)

We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday.
They are devoid of interest. The Journal des
Debats has a long article on the late King of BR-
varka, who is extolled " for having taken decisive
measures for the extension of knowledge by mul-
tiplying primary schools, placing them under the
civil authority, restraining the power of the
clergy respecting domestic education, and at the
same time granting to Universities a wise liberty,
which has been the means of diffusing sounder
ideas among the Clergy of the different persua-
sions." - The King of Bavaria was a Catholic ; we
wish Protestant England would only imitate his

[MORNINte POST.]
A treaty of federation has been concluded be-
tween the Republic of Colombia and the United
Provinces of Central America, in which the con-
tracting Parties guarantee to each other the inte-
grity of their respective territories against the at-
tempts of the King of Spain, or his adherents,
and, promise each other assistance in case of in-
vasion. lii order to render that assistance more
immediate and effectual, it is agreed that either
party may commence military operations in the
territory of the other, whenever circumstances
may not allow sufficient time to communicate with
the Government, whose country is invaded.—

Reciprocal privileges, civil and commercial, are
conceded, and a provision is made for the Ge-
neral A ssembly of Delegates of the New Ame-
rican States at the Isthmus of Panama. The
-whole concludes by the following article, in
which both Parties bind themselves not to ac-
cede to any demands for " indemnity" Which
may be set up by.. Spain or any other nation

" this convention shall not in any manner

terfere, with the ,exercises of the national sove-
reignty of either of the contracting parties, whe-
ther as regards its internal government, or its re-
lations with foreign powers. Nevertheless, they
expressly and irrevocably bind themselves not to
accede to any demands for indemnify which may
be set up by Spain, or any other nation on her be-
half, for the loss of her former supremacy over these
countries ;Mealier to enter into any treaty with
Spain, or any. other nation, to the prejudice of
their independence, but to sustain on all occa-
sions, and in all places, their mutual interests,
with the dignity and energy of free, inde-