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THE SUN.

50L231 QUIN DICEIik •FALSUM AUbli./11.

LONDON, •
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1.%

A meeting of the Merchants, Bankers? S°P
i.t;
owners, Manufacturers-, and Traders talthe 7.
of London, has been appointed by th'e -V-)o
MaTon for to-morrow, in order to consider I'
expediency of petitioning Parliament for .°
vision of the Corn Laws. It is to be held -017111
City of London Tavern. On Friday last 4t ve;
tion from Liverpool for the same .purrse :et
carried unanimously. Perhaps there is no brsT-
iOS
of our trading system that requires, re.° or
more than this, and we hope the time 0' Vet;
far distant when the people may be permit
to eat theirbread at the cheapest possible r3O(
at which it can be obtained. If the prinOPlH.e
free commerce is to be applied to our inilnilfro.
tures in general, we cannot. perceive on eAsited,
tional ground the trade in Corn is to be eiceP itt
and besides the good policy which alone 3c,r,
recommend the measure, justice requires its aP°O(
tion. The system that favours the prodlej.co
our own country against rival competitors- '4750
foreign soil is intelligible, but that which gi
advantages to one class of persons at th 9 43.0
pence of another class of the same. connnuriv.
is manifestly unjust; and yet it appOrs Itist
intelligible system is to be removed, whilst 6e
which is marked with the stigma of Wog.'
is still retained. If those who laboui'
0
to
ducing our manufactures are to be open 7 .rei
rivalry of foreign nations, common sense-reqite;
they should have their food as cheap as polsit)
and how can that be, if the price of home 4r°:4,0
Corn is kept up, and importation of foreign AT at
Corn restrained by prohibitory enactment:6r
heavy duties. We are, however, compelled t° the
fess, that for some reason or other, (perhaP6
ere
price of labour or the high rents) the farmerbtoi
is unable to bring his corn to market at a G4c9 toot
will yield him a reasonable rout and enable c,
to compete with the foreign grower. On thiS 115
r
count a duty on importation, calculated as 1)-°
Or° •
may be to equaliie the charge, and thus - the
both home* and foreign grown Corn int° j
markets on. the same terms, may be onee—
eft
The object of the duty h; not s'O much t° r
al
the English farmer, as tuts lace him on•Bfdro.
footing with the foreign, farmer ; and:, 11#-ie

the amount of duty, and how it shall be charged,'
bec(lines a question. The method hitherto pur-
suell .11 S been at so much pee bushel, but it
4rsPe'ars to us far better to take the duty, ad
(ifreilz, at the port
.of importation, and not
41' 50 much per bushel, and this foe two rea-
sG" ; lust, because the price of Corn varies ac-
"tiling to its qualities, and. according to the
dud.; and secondly, because by compelling
the trtrporier to value his Corm at the port of
"Pertaion, the duty would have always the
same operation, and the home and foreign
41r.°1'ee.* be retained on the same equal footing
that it was the intention of the law to place them.
or it is obvious that the value of the corn on
Impartation would be according to the price of
the day, and thus the dray would conform to cir-
eAuttelltaces, and become more or less high as the
Pnce 01 Corn varied. To illustrate the position, let
118. tate the duty at 15 per cent.on the value of the
it,6**.t!, and suppose 100 quarters of corn to be
1001., the duty on that sum would be 151.;
if the price of corn should fall, and 100 quarters
corn should be worth only 901., the duty would
141 proportion ; but if, on the contrary, the
1/tice should rise, and 100 quarters of corn be
w°lllllol., the duty would rise in proportion,
" thus would always bear the same relation to
the-value of the corn as it bore at the time the duty
" imposed. By these means this great incon-
"%ifttcP (an inconvenience that appears to us the
44)stPa'rable concomitant of a specific duty on
tlte bushel) would be avoided, namely, that by
."3031 of the variable price of Corn, the specific
ttutlY would sometimes operate as a prohibition,
s"Eltimes would give-no protection at all, and
terlainlY it might sometimes happen to hit the
"act medium it was intended, but that result
ea" never be calculated upon, and, as far as we
"Page, would very seldom occur.

Paris Papers of Saturday arrived last
iota The
Etoele contains a long article de-
the state of the Turkish capital, which
sue' not to be in the slightest degree im-
Ptatt'll• The insubordination of the Janissaries
:"tinuPs in spite of all the efforts of the PORTZ
tli; retlUee them to obedience, by arresting their
litraders, and putting them to death pub-
tvY' t't secretly by the means of poison.-
71
thing indicates the weakness of the
(14:113 vOlile on the other hand the Greeks
tion,.ay the utmost boldness in their naval opera-
' capturing Turkish ships almost under the
4111 glins of the Ottoman forts. It would seem
° "1" if Patras has not already surrendered,
'I'M Soon
1,
~ be obliged to capitulate to the
eta-ot

Den
p 1 -Ce METTERNICH was expected to leave
Ml* on Saturday for Milan, by the way of

X 111" -8/°ife gives the substance of the official
-73 from Peru, relative to the defeat of the 5pa-
:114:43, from the English Papers; and, from the
:l'or of its remarks, it would seem that all at-
"lrs at the re-conquest of its South American
I:cossessions are not abandoned by Spain. The
ledie thinks, supposing the news from Peru to
be true, that the misfortune is not without re-
-111"1‘7, and that Royalism and bigotry may yet be
ie'established in the new States of America by the
getotion and firmness of the Spanish nation. The
'Pattiards, however, will find that the independ-
ence 3 of those States is established on too firm a
alis to be subverted by any attempts that they
thaY now make.
atel'gr"n PoNDs.—PARIS, APRIL 9.—Five per Cents.
20c. ; Bank Stock, 2,061 f. 25c.; Neapoktanßentcosn,
‘ue-; Spanish ditto 181 • Spanish Loan, 59. Exchange
Jondon._,,
4,44,4naglik.pe.n)e month, '2sf. ; three months, 24f. 85c.—(Court

ran i-c.' .Papers of the 9th instant arrived this
and, communicate the great satisfaction
ced in the Netherlands and at Ilarnbur.gh,
at the ;„,
re, '."tended reductionthe
nerri Stz."l ti 9 Mr. IlusKissorr. The Dutch Ge-
ier p: '''RANENHOFF is on the point of departure
T'ziracoa with several Officers of. Engineers.
he Object of their mission is said to be, to Mr-
" and extend the works for the defence of
that
island, and likewise to erect fortifications
Ilethe island of Aruba, if it should be judged
cessary.

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4•11 D EXCHANGES.
016, AM, APRIL B.—London, n. 7. ; two months,
11414:""°}1, APRIL s.—No list printed on account of the
Tione on London at 2i-35. 93.
10e r-EitsmunGrt, MARCH 22.—London, 10. 5-322; Paris,
Ltipstc, MARCH 31.—London, three months, 6. 132.

;„rrillarn burgh Papers to the 6th instant, which
tie, lied this morning, furnish the following ar-
-01 of intelligence :

'
HANOVER, APRIL 2. .
AiTilli! col _ collection of the laws contains a notice of the Cabinet
dell ,rY$ by which the inhabitants of the kingdom are for id
liave.f, bear titles given them by foreign Princes, unless they
A _uootained the permission of the Ministry. telv'tend ther remittance of 1500 pounds sterling has been re-
LOWER London for the sufferers by the inundations.
ring I4owER ELBE, APRIL 4.
'tiltto a Mandate of the King of Saxony, dated 21st
the',_.viduals who have taken part in secret associations of
Students shall be excluded from public employments.
The 6' • ' . tiTocicium.m, MAncrt 23.
al ,__ overnment has just sold to the house of Michaelson
.builrntwoftlicks,•of this city, the Tapperhiten, ship Of the line,
4S ,rnero ears.ago at Carlscrona, but only with so many guns
11411trciet) tradin to the West Indies usually carry, forthe
g

sum of 171,000 dollars Hamburg Banco.. The purchasers have
bought for a London house—it is said, B. Goldschmidt and
Co.—and it is supposed to be intended for the trade with Co-
lombia : it is 1000 tuns burden.
MAnciz 29.—Besides the commercial treaty with the Nether-
lands for the introduction of reciprocity in commercial and
navigation duties, negociations arc supposed to be on foot with
England, which are expected to lead to some further modifica-
tions of our prohibitory laws with respect to English goods and
Colonial produce, independently of wh,Lt has been done by the
last tariff.

NORTHUMBERLAND ItArt.-goAn —By the post
this morning we have received the following from
an intelligent Correspondent :

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 9.
A meeting of the Shareholders in the Newcastle and Carlisle
Rail-road was held this day for the purpose of appointing Di-
rectors, at which a Board of twelve Directors was chosen, em-
bracing some of the most able and intelligent men of business
in this country. The skilful and judicious management of the
affairs of the Company has been thus eactually secured. The
following disposition of the 2,500 shares, which remained after
setting apart 500 for the landowners, appeared to have been
made—namely, 1,000 had been allotted to Newcastle, 1,000 to
London, and 500 to Carlisle; and the whole had been fairly
and openly brought into the market, without the slightest at-
tempt to forward the sale by artificial means. Of the number
of shares allotted to Newcastle nearly the whole had been
taken, not by mere adventurers, but by persons of weight and
respectability, intending to remain permanently connected with
the undertaking. Returns of the shares disposed of in London
had not been received at the time of the meeting. No doubt,
however, can be entertained but that the whole of the shares
will be taken in a few days.

Private letters from Milan state that the Em-
peror and Empress of AUSTRIA are expected to
arrive in that city towards the close of this
month... Their Imperial Majesties will reside
in Italy two mouths, and then proceed to
Hungary. Report says, that the Coronation
of the Empres3, as Queen of Hungary,
which it appears has not yet been solemnized,
will take place during the visit of their Imperial
Majesties to their Hungarian dominions. It. is
positively stated that no Congress will be held
at Milan, as generally supposed, and that the
journey of their Imperial Majesties to Italy ►s
unconnected with any political objects, but
simply one of pleasure.
Ills Royal Highness the CROWN PRINCS of the
Netherlands arrived at St. Petersbnrgh on the
Qth March.
_ _

The marriage of the Princess LOUISA of Prus-
sia to Prince FREDERICK of the Netherlands, is
to take place on the 20th of May.
Great consternation was caused at Naples on
the 17th, by a report that the lightning had
struck the Palace of Caserta. In fact it did
strike into the apartments above that in which his
MAJESTY was writing ; but he did not evince any
alarm, though the shock was violent.
The Russian Privy Councillor KoTzcllullET,
has resigned the direction of the Department of
the Interior, but he continues to be Member of
the Council of the Empire.
The Prince of CORVEY, Bishop of Munster,
died at Corvev on the 18th ult.

All Levant-produce is rising in price at Con.
stantinople, in consequence of the purchases made
by the English.
FROM THE MAINE, APRIL 5.—.111. RUIII.,
Counsellor in the Aulic Tribunal, and friend of
HOFFMANN, has been put under arrest in his
own house in Darmstadt, by order of the Go-
vernakent : his papers are under seal.
A very dangerous epidemic has broken out in
Scania among the horses, which has already ex-
tended to the horses of the cavalry in Stockholm.
In order to prevent its spreading, the intended
encampment of troops in Ladugardsgoerde will
not take place this year.

The Continental Gas Company have contract-
ed to light the city of Gothenburg with gas.
The loss sustained by the destruction of the
Theatre at Weimar by fire is estimated at
100,000 rix dollars ; unfortunately it was not
insured.

We understand that a Company is forming for
the purpose of trading to the Island of Hayti.
Subscriptions for Shares are now receiving at
Messrs. FRY and CHAPMAN, Bankers, St. Mil-
dred's-court.

Letters were yesterday received from Guati-
mala, dated December 23. Every thing was
tranquil, and the Government in a very settled
state. Arrangements were making for the junc-
tion of the two seas, but no particulars had trans-
pired.
Accounts from St. Petersburgh state, that a
great quantity of snow had fallen in the Crimea
since the month of December, so that sledging
was in perfection. The cold varied from sto 10
degrees of Reaumur. The Bay of Odessa, how-
ever, continued open, and the navigation un-
impeded.
A late number of the New York Gazette says,
they can state, upon the most unquestionable authority, that
Governor CLINTON has received from the President Elect the
offer of the appointment as Minister to the Court of st. James.
Letters from Emden say, that the corn ap-
pears to be almost generally destroyed, as It may
be drawn out by the roots (which already begin
to putrefy) with little difficulty. The rape
seed is also in the same perishing condition, a
great many maggots sheaving themselves in the
roots and in the stems. The sheep which stood
in the salt water nearly all die ; they begin to
cough, though they still eat pr.etty heartily ; they
soon, however, grow lean, and ere long are un-
able to walk. • In this state they died off ra-
pidly.

. _
The state of trade in Nottingham was never
so flourishing as at present. The town has had
au increase of not less than 10,000 inhabitants
within the last year ; and the earnings of the
operative classes are so considerable that many
get from 30s. to 21. per week. At Leicester the
weavers are earning from 21. to 31. per week.
The town and vicinity of Dumbarton (says a
Glasgow Journal) are enjoying their full share of
the prosperity of the country. The different
print fields and bleach fields on the banks of the
Lieven are very throng. The glass-works are
brisker tham they have been for a number of
years.
We understand that the only part of this town
which has been submitted to the process of Mac.
adamization (Dean-street), has been found not to
expectations entertained of its utility,
consequence is, that the paviours
oir theimatroteir operations in a short tim itece their
e,
aaawnitistdllwl
,cetth e
street will, resume its original appear-
ance.(Newcastle will,

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FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
The Marquis and Marchioness of • Exeter, at his new resi-
dence in Connaught-place, from their seat, Burleigh, Lincoln-
shire ; the Marquis and Illarchioness of Lansdown, from their
villa, at Richmond; the Earl and Countess of Lonstiale, and
Family, froM their seat, Cottesmore, Rutlandshire ; the Earl
of Mount Edgcumbe and Family, from their seat at Richmond;
Dowager Lady Anson, from a visit-to Mr. and Lady Anne
Coke, at their seat in Norfolk; Hon. Colonel Howard, M.P.
and Family, from Ashtead Park, Surrey ; the Viscountess
Chetwynd and the Misses Chetwynd, in Portugal-street ;
Charles Morgan, Esq. in Pall-mall, from Wales ; Mr. and
Lady Anne Baird, in Dover-street; Miss Cartwright and Miss
Clerke, in Half Moon-street, Piccadilly; Marquis of Bath, in
Grosvenor-square ; Mrs. and:Miss. Cleveland, in Glotia.ter-
place ; Miss Cavendish and- MiSs ,•Catherine Cavendish, in
Clarges-street, Piccadilly; „Major and Mrs, Aubrey, in Baker-
street; Mr. and Mrs. EtlivarrlS,,,in;,Portland-plate ; Lady
Harriet Lascelles, at the Earl, of klariwooa's, in II anover.square;
Mrs. and Miss Benyon, in 4rosvenotaquare ; Mrs. and Miss
Donovan, in Bryansteine-sqnare.; -Mr. Chas. Cavendish, at
Burlington House, Piccadilly; -14-ord,Macdonald and the Misses
I3osville, in Brook-street; Captain ;Seymour, ira Piccadilly;
Mrs. and Miss Howard, in Sonth Audley -street ; Lady and
Miss Petre, in Grosvenor-square; „Lady Harriet Marsham,
Lady Amelia Charlotte Marsham,, and the Misses Riddell, in
Grosvenor-place; F. Bradshaw, Earl. M. P. in Grosvenor-
place, from Newmarket ; Lady Martha Keatinge and the
Misses Keatinge, at the Coburg Hotel,, Charles-street,- Grosve-
nor-square, from Paris ; Mr. and Mr:S.IAM%, at Batts' Hotel,
Dover-street, from Naples ; Mr. Steuart, at ditto, froM a tour ;
Colonel Keating, at ditto; from Newmarket; Mr. and Mrs.
Nielson, at ditto, from Fork; the Lord Bishop of Chichester,
Mrs. Carr. and the Misses Carr, at Miller's Hotel, Jermyn-street,
from the Palace, Chichester. for the season ; Henry Entwistle,
Esq. at ditto, from Hastings • Blaney Balfour, Esq. at ditto,
front Dublin; James Daly, Esq. N. P. at ditto; Mrs. Stanley
and family, at her house in Cumberland-street, Portman-
square' from Brighton ; Mr. and Lady Sarah Bailey, at Kirk-
ham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from a tour; Sir Charles
and Lady Bagot and family, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-
street; Sir fledworth Williamson, Bart. at ditto, from Don-
caster; Lord and Lady Gage, at Greillon's Hotel, Albemarle-
street, from their seat in Sussex-.
DEPART U RES.—The Earl and Countess of Sefton, and the
Ladies Molyneux, for their seat, Stoke Farm, near 'Windsor ;
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Agar-Ellis, for the Duke of Devon-
shire's
.seat at Chiswick ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Co-
ventry, for their seat in Kent; Lord Hervey, from Miller's
Hotel, for the MarquiS of Salisbury's seat, Hatfield ; Henry
Middleton, Esq. and Mrs. Middleton, from ditto, for Bath.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
The Earl of Cassillis entertained a distinguished party at
dinner yesterday, at hit; house in Privy-gardens.
Lord Maryborough had a dinner party yesterday at his house
in Saville-row•.

Sir George Warrender, Bart. entertained a party at dinner
yesterday at his house, Whitehall-place.
The Countess of liarewood has issued cards for two routs,the
18th and 25th inst.

The Countess of Orford has issued cards for a juvenile ball on
Monday next, at her house in Berkeley-square.
On Saturday last, Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Walker entertained
et dinner at their house in Bryanstone-square, the Earl and
ejuntess of Moray, Count and Countess Ludolf, &c. &c.

The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday from the
Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia.
The Duke of York visited the Princess Augusta on Sunday.
Mrs. Canning returned to Gloucester Lodge yesterday from
the residence of the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck, Notting-
hamshire.

FRIENDS of FOREIGNERS in DISTRESS.

Yesterday the Antirverh.ary Dinner of . this
Charity was held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
.
street, when a most numerous and respectable party of Gentle-
men attended for the purpose of celebrating the occasion. At
halfrpaat six o'clock the Duke of WELLINGTON', the per-
petual President .of the Society, entered the room amid loud
applause, and sat dOwn to dinner, ityfoited on his right-hand
by Count Munster, and on his left., by the Baron Stierneld
several other, Gentlemen ofi,diatinCiion were present, and ap-
peared to take a lively interest in the objects of the Society.
After " Non Noltis Dentine" had been sunk by Messrs.
Bell ing, Broadhurst,- Jolly, Sola, Taylor., Terrell, and Master
Smith, the Noble President apologized for his having taken
the chair on the occasion, when the Duke of York had been
expeetetV to hold that high station, and he stated that other
important Imsiness had prevented that office being undertaken
by his Royal Highness.. " The King" was then drank, and
subsequently the healths of the Emperor of Russia, the Ern.-
peror of Austria, the King of Prussia, the King of the Nether-
lands, the Duke of York, the Duke of Clarence, and the King
of Sweden; on which,
Baron STIEnN E I.D acknowledged the honour that had been
'hewn to his master by the company.
After the Patrons and Patronesses of the Charity had been
drank with applause,

Count 31 uNsTEit begged leave to propose as a toast the
health of the hero who had rendered such great and eminent
services to Britain, and he could.not help expressing how happy
he felt, in conjunction with the rest of the company, at having
for Chairman on that occasion the illustrious individual who
had contributed so largely to the honour and glory of England.
He begged leave to propose " The health of his Grace the
Duke of Wellington."
The Duke of WEnatwaTtiN returned thanks for the great
honour that had just been shown him ; and observed, that the
only consideration that had induced him to undertake the office
of perpetual President to that excellent charity was the hope
of being useful.--(hear, hear !)—ln his opinion the charities
of England reflected more honour on the country than all its
greatness and wealth, however powerful or wealthy she might
be, and among all those charities he found none so eminent
and distinguished as that one, which might justly be called the
head of them all : it was on this account, therefore, that he felt
peculiar pride in holding so high an office in it as that of Pre-
sident; and he trusted that, after having expressed his own
sentiments on the occasion, the subscriptions of the evening
would show how ht ‘, a sense the Company present enter-
tained of the merits a utility of the Institution.—(Applause.)
A list of the Subscriptions wait then read by the Secretary ;
among others, we observed those of the Duke of Wellington,
50 guineas, for the fifth time; Count Lieven, 20 guineas;
Count Munster, 10 guineas; Baron Maltzhaan, 10 guineas;
Mr. Seymour, 10 guineas, exc. &c.; amounting, in the total,
to upwards of 7001. .
On the Corporation of the City of London being drank,
Mr. T. Weasom, M.P., returned thanks, as one of its Mem-
bers. He felt that he owed much of his elevation and prospe-
rity, such as they were, to foreigners in prosperity; and he
therefore felt it as a most paramount duty, the relieving such
foreigners as should be in distress.
The Report was then read by the Secretary. It stated, that
the Society was at that period at a higher rate of prosperity
than had ever previously been known. The sum of 1,1961. had
been subscribed at the preceding anniversary—a sum exceeding
by far that of any' preceding year on a similar occasion ; in
consequence of which, the Hoard, instead of encroaching,
as in former years, on the permanent fund, have been en-
abled to add to it, by purchasing 2501. Stock Three per Cents.
and during the whole year the -Committee have been en-
abled to administer relief, without being compelled to have re-
course to those painful measures to which they had formerly been
driven by necessity. We extract a few of the most interesting
passages :
" The Board have further to notice a circumstance which is
calculated to prove that the operations of the Society have of
late attracted an increased attention from its numerous friends,
by their,having taken a more active part in the last election of
Pensioners than on any former occasion. At tha't election, it ap-
pears that a greater number of subscribers voted than at any pre_
ceding period : the highest number of votes of Candidates elected
havinghigiiesr beenuas in 1824,
182at,d37thile, alonwdetshte7. During lowest 9 20, when when in 1821 year,the
the whole
fifty pensioners have been enjoying that most beneficial aid to
and help_Directors
lwehoi
chi
rtcboelinr
srteasupeeeciita Us
01 r character
lee
dn d
ttihi
,t 1 isantrdes sithneg
if the •
have niolahnesitation in saying that, Society did nothing
contribute so effectually to the comfort of old and
foreigners,in their declining age, and to secure to them at
where to lay their 1 ea s, it would fully deserve
misery, are
leak a placefeeling, heart, and Merit tl the sympathy of every
ho placed aboVe wa and
.ant generous
contributions of those, w
of
mwoo.rrte4t
good.. T 1
h the means dollll,le sinitple reading of
blessed wit
for pensionF chosen &dm amongst a great
the list of'candiclates
forcibly to the Ica
ses speaks -heart ; and it is with
many more ea
that the Board were so far restricted) as to call
deep regret
to select only thirteen pensioners from
list of forty-eight candidates
upon the Subscribers.
who were all 'eligible all 5
in want,
all worthy of assistance."