The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Yesterday the dispatches for Bombay and China, by the ship
Inglis, Capt. Serie, were closed at the East India House, and
delivered to the Purser of that ship.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when Capt. Richard Rawes was sworn into the com-
mand of the ship Warren Hastings, consigned to China direct.
Arrival at Rio de Janeiro—The Mary, Watson, from the
Cape of Good Hope, the 22d Nov.
Sailings from Rio de Janeiro—The Medley, Crockley, for the
Cape of Good Hope, the 6th Oct. ; and the Cumberland, Cairns,
for New South Wales, the 17th Nov.
Arrival at Bengal—The Stanmore, Gray, from South
A m eri ck
Mauritius, Nov. I.—The Barossa, Hutchinson, was to sail
from the Mauritius. for London, early in Jan.
Yesterday the Hon. East India Company's ships—Nellie
Castle, Capt. Adams, Scaleby Castle, Capt. Newall, and Kent,
Capt. Cobb, were dispatched ; the former for Bombay and.
China, and the two latter for Bengal and China.
Passengers per Kellie Castle, fox Bombay—Mr. John Doig,
Assistant Surgeon; Mr. Wm. Geddes, Cadet; Samuel Parr,
do. • Chas. B. Raitt, do.
do.
per Scaleby Castle, for Bengal—Mr. Fred. Valli,
day, Writer; Mr. Benj. Bell; Mr. Wm. Walker; Miss Grace
Barstow ; Mrs. Macleod.
Passengers
.per Kent, for Bengal—Mr. Jas. Grant, writer ;
Mr. David Pringle, do. ; Mr. Edw. R. Townshend, Assistant
Surgeon ; Miss Catherine Murray ; Mr. H. A. Shuckburgh,
Cadet ; Mr. John H. Hatchell, do. ; Mr. George R. Birch, do.

ROYAL MEws.—The arrangements for the re-
removal of the State Horses, Carriages, Servants,
&c. from the King's Mews at Charing--crosi, to
the newlperected Royal stables at Pimlico, have
been accompanied by an order from the Duke of
DORSET, as Master of the Horse, directing that
no married groom, helper, or pstillion, shall
be allowed to. have more than two children re-
siding with him in the new establishment.
(Morning paper.)

A serious cident hppened
.a short time since
to the only son of the aßishop of London while
playing with a powder flask) which unfortunately
burst in his hand,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

acls from the i'vers,Feb. 10, 1825

[mottNING POST.]
Mr. Whitmore has given notice of a motion of
great importance. his object is to obtain an
amendment of the existing Corn Laws ; and
though we are far from believing he will he able
to carry it, we think a better time than the pre-
seut to discuss the subject could scarcely be
chosen. Land produce now yields a price which
gives the immediate cultivator ,a large profit,
after paying the landlord a fair, in many instances,
a high rent. There is 4t the same time, owing
to a succession of good harvests, and the easy
circumstances of all the classes of the community,
no clamour either respecting the scarcity or ex-
orbitant rate of provisions. Hence the agricul-
tural and every other interest have their judg-
ments and feelings so coolly balanced, as to
come to the consideration of the Corn Laws at
this moment in a peculiarly happy temper, to
perceive the truth and act on it. At such a calm
period only is Parliament qualified to legislate
permanently on a question liable to every variety
of accidental influence. As a corollary from this
position, we may pronounce the existingCornLaw
to be necessarily temporary, even if time unsound-
ness of the principles on which they are founded
did not dictate their revision. They were passed '
in 1823, in the very height and crisis of the
severest agricultural distress which the country
perhaps ever experienced ; and the object of the
late Marquis of Londonderry, who principally
framed them, (and who by the way was wound
to death by the sufferings of the landed interest'
at the time) was to appease the prevailing alarm,
and pacify the Country Gentlemen. Circum-
stances being now so essentially changed, and
the prosperity of the nation requiring wise and
provident enactments respecting the import and
export of foreign grain, we wish Mr. Whitmore's
motion the amplest discussion. The inevitable
consequences of opening or shutting the Ports
according to the price exhibited by the returns of
averages is, that first, before importation be al-
lowed, a great and continued enhancement must.
have taken place; and next, that before importa-
tion be again prohibited, a monstrous glut of
corn may be introduced into the country, which
nil! cause an unnatural depression of the market
for a long period subsequently. There can, in
short, under the actual system he no steadiness
of price, nor can the agriculturists by possibility
calculate his profits, except for the limited, but
yet most uncertain, most capricious interval,
while foreign grain shall be excluded.

[THE TIMES.]
The motion made by Dr. Lushington on Tues-
day last was on a subject of great interest to the
peace of Ireland—if Ireland is ever so be a can-
didate for the blessing of peace. On a calm re-
view of the Irish Statute Book, one might sup-
pose that the entire business of the Legislature
whose performance it exhibited, had been to
make work for themselves and their successors,
—to enhance, instead of reducing, the difficulties
of governing a rude and unsettled country, by
rousing rather than assuaging those passions which
are every where the scourges of society, the
breakers of repose, amid the natural enemies of
ordinary legislators. Among the old laws for
hunting down Papists in Ireland, was that re-
ferred to by Dr. Lushington, which made a
priest hangable for marrying any but people of
his own persuasion, and which made the parties
on whose application he had thus exposed him-
self to be hanged, liable to three years' imprison-
ment for refusing to give evidence against hire !
We chnllange the whole world toexceed thissimple
of Irish state policy. Being brought into action
some short time ago in the county of Derry, by
the committal of certain recusant witnesses, after-
wards liberated by the Goverment, Dr. Lush-
ington moved for a copy of the warrant issued
by the Magistrates, whose names he considerately
suppressed. It appears that the chiefs of the
Catholic Association had, with no very creditable
candour, or in gross ignorance of the statute,
which left no discretion to the Magistrates, made
a furious attack upon their conduct, and held
them up to the popular hatred as persecutors of
the parties on the above occasion. On Dr. Lush-
ington's moving for the paper, however, Sir George
Hill and Mr. Dawson paid off the justices by a
p.inegpric as headlong as the worst abuse of
the Catholics had been, and, carrying the war
into the enemy's quarters in return, launched
out against the Association and its partisans.—
This it is to make bad laws, which serve but to
inflame revengeful passions. The Catholics lay
hold of a tyrannical law, as an engine of com-
plaint and contumely against those who enforce
it ; the opposite faction wreak their animosity on
the unjust assailants of the unfortunate law-offi-
cers, and the ball of discord is kept up for
ever. This vile statute will be repealed of
course, if were only for the vicious excite-
ment to which it ministers. The marriage state,
we are well aware, ought to be fenced round
by the most valid securities. The ceremony
which the law calls essential to marriage ought,
in all cases, to be clearly defined by law—
the functionaries who may perform it, well
discriminated—their responsibility full and per-
feet—the record of the fact unquestionable,
that the rights of lig,itimacy and of property may
be protected but no suck laws as this terrible
statute are productive of any wholesome fruits.
They are thorns in the flesh of society, and per-
petuate the malignant spirit by which they were
first implanted.

[NEW TIMES.]
We are somewhat surprised to see that the
Parliamentary friends of the Catholics (at least
those on the Opposition side of each house)
stand forward as defenderi of the Catholic
Association, which has certainly done more
harm to the Catholic cause in England than any
measure adopted for the last ten years. It is can-
didly confessed indeed that " there is much
to object to in the conduct of the members, both
in their individual and collective capacity;" but
then it is added, that persons under the political

disabilities which the Irish Catholics have to sus-
tain must naturally be expected to express them-
selves warmly. For that very reason, we say,
the Catholic Association is the more injurious.
If a large class of persons are actually suffer-
ing any inconvenience, whether from their own
fault or their misfortune ; if they are, as they
naturally will he in such a case, impatient,
irritable, and apt to give the rein to the angry
passions ; why surely it becomes necessary for
their own sakes that their guides and advisers
should be doubly cautious and reserved. And
here it is that we blame the Catholic Aristo-
cracy of Ireland. They have voluntarily with=
drawn from the station to which they were born,
for which they are fitted by education and cha-
racter, and in which, whilst they give weight to
the claims, they might have prevented the ex-
cesses of their countrymen. Nay, they have done
worse; they have lent their names to an Associ-
tion in which they are less than ciphers. They
have spredd their ermine over the shoulders of the
Demagogue, and crouched before him as foot-
stools. There stand their names, but the Noble-
men themselves do not venture to attend, or if
they come to a Meeting, it is to sit silent while
insult and contempt are hurled on the Aristocracy.
Meanwhile, what do the real leaders of the
Association ? They are for the most part
Barristers in search of Briefs; and they know
that popularity is a good road to business ; and
violence is a good road to popularity. here we
must notice a specious argument of Dr. Lush-
ington's. " You assert," says he in sub-
stance, " that the Magistrates who committed
Quigley to prison under the law against illegal
marriages were previously %veil esteemed by their
Roman Catholic neighbours, but that after this
event they became objects of hatred to these same
neighbours : what, then, must be the nature of a
law which could operate such a baneful effect ?"
To this we answer, the particular law in clues-
lion may be a bad one ; it may require revision,
or repeal, hut it had existed for a century with-
out producing this effect : it was as much in
force when these Magistrates were beloved as
when they were persecuted ; and the Magi-
strates themselves (lid nothing which by any fair
construction could render them unpopular. What
was it, then, that took away from the Magi-
stracy the respect so essential to the good order
of society ? It was the misrepresentations, the
violence, the brief-hunting, lucre-seeking, base,
selfish violence of the Lawyer Demagogues of
the Catholic Association. See the consistency of
the gentlemen who a few years sgo declaimed
against the Constitutional Association ! They
said it was monstrous that a Society should col-
lect from two or three hundred Noblemen or
Gentlemen six or seven thousand pounds, and
with that sum should legally institute prosecu-
tions against notorious disturbers of the public
peace. They said this was usurping the func-
tions of Government, and rendering that popular
and useful Public Officer, the Attorney-General,
a mere cipher ; nay, in their zeal, they went so
far as to move the old prosecutions instituted by
the Constitutional Association, right 'or wrong,
should be quashed, and that the Constitution it-
self should be wounded in the tenderest part, by
taking away from the subject the right of appealing
to the criminal justice of his country,and by vesting
it exclusively in the Attorney-General! Now, they
say, pray don't interfere with this pleasant, harm-
less, Body, the Catholic Association. Suffer them
to collect a thousand pounds a week, by pence at
a time from the starving peasantry : allow them to
enlist the whole Catholic Priesthood on their
side; and thus to engage six millions of people,
to remove at the beck of half a dozen agitators
in Dublin : permit these agitators to hold public
meetings, to deliver inflammatory speeches, to point
out individual Magistrates as objects of scorn, to
direct party prosecutions, to interfere in private
disputes, to stimulate religious bigotry to rage, and
finally to consecrate the hatred of Catholic
against Protestant as a fundamental principle of
their Union !—And then we are gravely told, we
are not to mind what Mr. O'Connell, or Mr.
Spiel, says or does—they are merely private
Members of the Association. But we should
like to know what would have been said in Par-
liament if the Constitutional Association had held
public meetings, and if Sir John Sewell, or any
other leading Member of the Society, had made in-
flammatory harangues at them, and designated
six Whig Justices by name as the tyrants and
oppressors of their neighbourhood. We beg to
ask what one prosecution was instituted by the
Constitutional Association on party grounds;
what libel on a private individual did they pro-
secute ; what appeal did they ever make to fac-
tion or bigotry ; when did they ever call upon
one class of men in the State to hate another
class ?—And yet the same men who condemned
the Constitutional Association are now found
defending the Catholic Association.

[BRITISH PRESS.)
In the German Papers received yesterday, we
observe a statement which tends strongly to cor-
roborate the opinion that the policy of England,
with respect to the new American States, will in
suhstance he followed by the maritime Powers of
Europe. The Government of the Netherlands
has sent out Commissioners, who are now in
America making the requisite inquiries prepara-
tory to the act of recognition ; and notwithstand-
ing the doubts we have seen expressed by some
who ought to know the character of the French
Government well, we believe that NI. tie Villele
will take the first opportunity of disengaging
himself from the trammels of his connexion
with Spain and the Holy Alliance, in order
that he may promote the commercial inte-
rests of the country over which he presides.—
He inclines decidedly to a pacific system, and it
is easy to
discern, that in his late financial mea-
sures a principal object was to restrain the war-
like propensity of the ultras by whom he is
surrounded and embarrassed. But if the state-
ment to which we have above alluded be
true, one of the leading members of the Holy
Alliance has also committed the scandalous of-
fence of suffering the interests of his subjects
to preponderate over the sacred principles of
legitimacy. It was rumoured some time ago
that the Cabinet of Berlin was disposed to

follow the example of England, and it is now
annonnced that the Prussian Government has
resolved to establish a commercial intercourse
with the new States ; and that for that purpose
a Prussian Consul has been appointed at Buenos
Ayres. It is in this quiet but effectual mode
that we expect the wise and temperate policy of
Mr. Canning will operate. The chief danger he
had to avoid, in accomplishing his object, was
that of giving to the violent party on the Conti-
nent a pretext for being offended. The Right
Honourable Secretary had steered safely and
successfully through all the difficulties of his
course, and peace being thus e►►sured, the mer-
cantile and manufacturing interests in each State
are left quite free to urge, on their respective
Goveruments, as we may be sure they will not
fail to do, the propriety and justice of protect-
ing them, by the usual arrangements with the
independent Colonies of Spain. 'fills question
will probably lead to the virtual dissolution of
that mischievous compact of Princes which most
indecently arrogated to itself the title of the
Holy Alliance.

[MORNING II ERALD.II,

There is one thing belonging to the Catholic
question that we did not before consider ; it is
this—the large weekly amount subscribed by the
Catholics of Ireland, and the statements that have
been put forth respecting the great wealth of the
Catholics, particularly those living in Dublin.
We recollect having seen a statement in some
newspapers, that the amount of wealth of a certain
portion only of the trading Catholics of Dublin
amounted to the sum of between 4 and 5 millions.
We had always understood that Ireland was a
poor country, AO that Dublin was is a state of
comparative wretchedness ; that almost all her
traders were ruined—that, in fact, trade and
commerce had left Dublin ; that the absence of
the Parliament had brought about all these evils,
to;!ether with the absence of the great land-
holders. Now here, in the face of these com-
plaints, we have a statement that certain Catholic
merchants of Dublin are possessed of nearly five
millions of property ; and further, that there is a
weekly meeting of the Catholics to take an account
of the sums subscribed in the name of the Rent ;
and that those weekly sums amount to from
OW. to 10001. a-week. If we strike the ave-
rage, and take it at 7001. a week throughout the
year—here is a subscription going on in Ireland,
on the part of the Catholics only, of 36,0001.
a-year. And this is the country that our Mi-
nisters said was so poor, that they took off its
Assessed Taxes. We do not know what was the
amount of the Assessed Taxes collected the year
before last in Ireland, but we should not be sur-
prised if the amount of the Catholic Rent, pro-
vided it be carried on throughout the year as it
began, and has continued, would not be equal
to what has been abandoned in the shape of
Assessed Taxes. It is a question whether
the Assessed Taxes hind not better be again
laid on time people of Ireland, seeing that they
have the ability to meet them, and seeing that
the Ministers were so grossly deceived ? We are
no friends to the expected measure of the Mini-
sters to put down the Catholic Rent Association,
because we cannot see that hitherto it has bee❑
productive of harm. What may come out to
alter our opinion, when the correspondence with
Lord Wellesley is produced, we cannot say ; but
hitherto we have seen no bad effects to arise from
this Association, but, on the contrary, inasmuch
as it has exposed the falsities which have been
circulated respecting the poverty of Ireland,
more especially Dublin. It is said that Mr.
O'Connell is making eight thousand pounds a-
year by his profession as a barrister, and that
Mr. Sidel is realising 1,0001. a-year. These
are the only gentlemen whose speeches can be
called inflammatory. Now, is it likely that either
would run the risk of losing such handsome in-
comes for the sake of bringing about a separation
of Ireland from England ; or of setting up an
Irish Parliament, to be independent of our Par-
liament ? Would they risk, thee one his 8,0001.
and the other his 1,0001. a-year ? Except the
Ministers can show better grounds than are before
us for stopping this tax inflicted by the Catho-
lics on themselves, we hope that in both Houses
their measures for putting an end to such volun-
tary taxation will be opposed,and in the Commons
we hope that the restrictive measures contem-
plated will be defeated by a considerable ma-
jority, except, however, the Marquis Welles-
ley's correspondence proves that there is more in
the back-ground with regard to this Catholic
Rent Association than meets the eye. In Mr.
O'Connell's speech last week there was one part
we highly disapproved. It was this speak-
ing of emancipation, he said that if that boon was
conceded, he hoped the next would he the re-
storation of the Parliament. Now, we should be
very sorry to see it restored. One Parliament is
surely enough for a population of only twenty
millions. As well might Scotland, Wales, or, in-
deed, the counties of York and Lancaster, have
a separate Parliament.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have seen a letter from Naples by the last
post, written by a person of great respectability,
in which he expresses himself, in the most sanguine
terms, with regard to the benefits he thinks are
likely to accrue from the rule of the new Sove-
reign. The writer touches upon a topic, which
may have great influence upon the affairs, not
of that kingdom alone, but of all Italy—we
mean the strong repugnance of the King to
the military occupation of his States by the
Austrians. The letter ascribes to him an
earnest desire to throw off this badge of de-
pendence ; the more so as he wishes to in-
troduce
iitn, which he must forego, as long as the
Austrians remain in the kingdom. The signs of
profound tranquillity which the country has ex-
hibited for some time will give a great weight to
any proceedings he may institute for the attain
meat of this most desirable object; and we trust
they will receive the cordial support of our own
Government. In fact, there is a fine opening at
this moment for establishing, British influence in
that country, which would be the more desirable
as, besides incalculably benefitting the Neapoli-

tans, it would have a decided tendency to
alleviate the sufferings of the rest of Italy. It is
really a heart-rending sight to behold the ab-
ject and wretched state to which that fine coun-
try has been reduced by the jealousy of Austria ;
and the pain is aggravated by the contrast of her
former wealth and renown. Italy probably af-
fords the best illustration of the effects of liberty
and misgovernment on the condition of nations.
When she was free, her cities were the emporium
of the trade of the world ; and with. her free-
dom only may be dated the resurrection of letters
and the revival of the arts. What a moral
lesson is conveyed in the vicissitudes she has un-
dergone ; and such nations as possess the
blessings that flow from a state of freedom,
may see in the present situation of that country,
as in a mirror, the fate that awaits them, if they
ever suffer that freedom to be wrested from them.
In the mean time, we have not much fear of the
cause of liberty retrograding ; on the contrary,
there is every prospect that it will make rapid
progress ; and the imperious necessity, which
exists on the part of England of cultivating libe-
ral principles, converts this hope into almost an
absolute certainty. A liberal course of policy is
indispensible to the preservation, and particular-
ly to the augmentation, of her present prosperity.
To retain her pre-eminence, she must strive to
promote freedom throughout the world, in the
same systematic manner in which the Holy
Alliance endeavour to put it down. Where-
ever we make a conquest in this way, there
our influence obtains a firm footing ; and
our trade, superior facilities. In every country,
from which our political principles are excluded,
our commerce is subjected to studied difficulties,
and our alliance scornfully rejected. To obviate
these evils, we have only to encourage such
signs as are said to be exhibited at this time by
the Neapolitan Government to improve the con-
dition of its subjects. Here is a noble field
for the labours of our diplomacy ; and the
encouragement to cultivate it is incredibly
stimulated by the reflection, that, whilst
it promises to yield to this country a rich
harvest of wealth and power, it has a cer-
tain tendency to promote the happiness of other
nations. As we are upon this important subject,
we cannot omit noticing the advantages that might
be secured for this country, as well as for the
cause with which her own interests are identified,
were her Government to mix more directly than
it has done of late, in the affairs of Switzerland.
That country might throw ten times the weight
into the political balance of Europe which she pos-
sesses at present. But we have, most unaccoun-
tably neglected her concerns ; and were the
patriotic feelings and martial spirit by which her
people were formerly distinguished, to be brought
forth again by the fostering care of England, it
would constitute one of the noblest victories
which our Diplomacy has to boast of.

We understand, from good authority, that
there is not the slightest truth in the report
which has appeared in the French Papers, stat-
ing that Prince Metternich was expected shortly
in Paris. Therefore it is unnecessary to notice the
speculations, to which his expected arrival in
that capital has given rise ; and his Highness
we presume, has business enough on his hands in
the affairs of Turkey, without subjecting himself
to the additional trouble, which the politicians
of Paris have thought proper to carve out for
him. The progress of the Greeks appears to
give' great annoyance to the Austrian Court,
which becomes more keen when it reflects on the
insuperable difficulties that oppose every scheme
for arresting it. Could even an Austrian
army be brought in contact with the Greeks,
it would be a problem, whether it could re-
duce to submission a people, who have uni-
formly triumphed over the military force of an
empire that has made Austria more than once
feel the effects of its strength. Even in our own
time, that power has received proofs that the
Turks are not contemptible enemies; and it
would be therefore downright presumption on its
part, if it calculated upon an easy triumph over
the victors of those very Turks.—ln the mean
time the presumption of Austria is not likely to
be put to the test, as it would be necessary to
march her armies over the ruins of the Ottoman
Empire, to be able to approach the Greeks.—
(Mid.)

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Mon-
day, and the Etoile of Tuesday. The latter con-
tinues its tone of satisfaction, and refers the hostile
Journals to the Speeches of Lord Liverpool and
Mr. Canning, as affording a proof that England
bears no ill-will to France. The Ultra Royal
Papers seem to be inspired by a different spirit,
and allude with complacency to the Congress of
the Holy Alliance,which is about to be held in Paris.
There is a report in circulation, that M inisters, not-
withsanding all these favourable appearances, are
not altogether at their ease ; and that the late
frequent Cabinet Meetings have not been of the
most harmonious character. However, we have
gained a triumph in Portugal, and what is rather
singular, that triumph has converted the Minis-
terial Journals of France into English partizans.
Amidst all this benevolence, we have reason to
believe that some of the largest Protestant Land-
holders of Ireland, hitherto hostile to Emancipa-
tion, begin to wish that question fairly at rest.

There were no arrivals yesterday by express
some (I.oxvit ee nv
es try, e
at sales, a
theles, and
close
from the Continent, and the market was steady.
Consols for the Account, however, were much
dfeelpi rteos s9e3di
1.
.owing
l to
of the day, 93426,1 n the F ()reign Market all
the Securities were steady. The South American
Bonds were rather higher than on Tuesday, but
any great rise is of course prevented by the New
ieywee ,
Mexican Loan, which was eagerly bought up at
at 31 to 4 premium. The applications to the
Contractors have exceeded in amount forty-seven
millions, although the loan is only for three mil-
lions two hundred thousand. The loan will be
apportioned this day. The list for the new
Greek Loan closed yesterday at twelve o'clock,
the applications having been very numerous. The
particulars of this loan are not yet made public ;
but it is supposed that a co i • th dt•rabic portion of

the last loan will be redeemed by it, and under
this impression there are many purchasers of the
Bonds now upon the market. Some extensive
purchases of Spanish Bonds were made yesterday
morning, and the price rose to 23 ; but when it
was ascertained that the purchases were not
caused by any satisfactory intelligence from
Spain, the Bonds went back again to the opening
price of the market.—(/bid.)

CANTERBURY, FEB. 9.

OPENING OF THE NEW CORN MARKET.
The opening of the New Corn Market took
place on Saturday. About one o'clock, a number of Gentle-
men having assembled, the Mayor (Osuons SNot7t.TE:f,
Esq.), took his station at the upper end of the Room, and ad-
dressed them nearly as follows;
" Gentlemen, the Corporation have redeemed their pledge
by opening this large and commodious Room, as a market
toll-free for the sale of agricultural produce. Resolutions for
that purpose have been agreed to, which, upon their being for-
mally sanctioned, will be made known to you, and to the pub-
lic. In order also to carry these resolutions into effect, regula-
tions will be framed by the Corporation, in conjunction with
the Committee of Country Gentlemen. The Market, Gentle.,
men, is now open for business, upon which circumstance I hope
you will allow me to congratulate you, and I trust it will re-
dound to the honour of our ancient City."
Mr. DEANE PARKER, then shortly addressed the assembly
to the following effect :

" Gentlemen-, for the opening of this noble, convenient, and
excellent room as a market, you are indebted, in the first in-
stance, to a munificent subscription from the Nobility, Clergy,
and Gentry of the County. Their offer was met in the most
liberal manner by the Corporation, and thus has arisen that ac-
commodation which you now enjoy, and which was so much
wanted. The Mayor has already informed you, that this mar-
ket is opened toll-free ; and on the part of the Committee I have
now to state, that the stands have been let without the slightest
partiality, those who agreed to take double stands, it was con-
sidered were entitled to a preference for the other stands, appli-
cations were indiscriminately received, and it has been deter-
mined by lot, to whom they should be let. The proceedings.
therefore, in this respect, have been perfectly impartial, and
there are still some stands (nine it was understood), for which
application may be made; when the regulations arc framed as
stated by the Mayor, they will be made known to you, as
also the resolutions. The market, Gentlemen, is now open for
business, and allow me likewise to congratulate you upon the
acquisition of so commodious a room for the transaction of
business. I trust the new Market will prove equally advan-
tageous to both buyers and sellers, that it will redound to the
honour of our ancient City, and be found a great public con-
venience."

Business, which had previously commenced, was then re-
sumed in the usual way. The room is admirably well adapt-
ed for the purpose for which it appropriated ;it is capacious,
very commodiously fitted up, and possessing the means of
good ventilation, and of having a free circulation of air.
There is also a well contrived stove, which on Saturday
rendered the temperature of the room very comfortable. It
is a corn-market which certainly does honour to the city of
Canterbury.
We cannot conclude this article without paying a tribute of
praise, which is most justly due to the agricultural gentlemen
of the county, who first set on foot the project for establishing
this market, and whose very liberal subscription, amounting u
1,7001., gave an impulse of so impressive a character, that to it,
the new corn-market may be said to be indebted for its exis-
tence, whilst the liberality of the Corporation essentially contri-
buted to bring it to maturity.—( Kentish Gazette.)

ANOTHER COACH ROBBERY.-011 Tuesday in•
formation was received at the Mansion-House, that two parcels,
containing 2,0-101. in Bank-notes, had been stolen on the pre-
ceding day, out of Newman's Gravesend coach. Notwith.
standing the great losses sustained by the carelessness of ban-
kers, the plans of the London gangs are still as profitable as
ever, to the speculators of stage-coach robberies. In this case
there was no blame attributable to those who transmitted the
notes. They exactly followed the directions of the bankers,
whose notes are thus probably thrown into a second circulation.
At a little after one o'clock on Monday, a parcel directed to
Messrs. Benchley and Co., Gravesend, containing 1,4031. in
country notes, was delivered to the coachman of the Gravesend
coach, and another parcel, directed to Messrs. Milian, Twiss,
and Company, Gravesend, containing 640/., also in country
notes, was likewise put into his care, with orders perso-
nally to give them into the custody of the two houses.
The first parcel was transmitted by the house of Williams
and Co., of Birchin-lane, the second by that of Sir John
Perring. The coachman at the same time was well acquainted
with the contents of both parcels. He immediately proceeded
to the yard of the Bull Inn, Leadenhall-street, where his coach
was, and deposited the parcels in a box constructed as the de-
pository of valuable property, tinder his own seat. He then
double-locked the box, and put a padlock over the first lock ;
so that he fancied all the efibrts of the thieves, particularly as
he had to go so short a journey, would b 3 ineffectual. Having
thus prepared himself for the worst, I e went into the inn to
have a little refreshment, after which he collected his passengers,
and drove offto Gravesend, supposing that all was safe. Upon
his arrival, when he went to open his box, he fbund that some
good-natured fellow had saved him the trouble. Both locks
had been wrenched open, and both parcels had been removed.
The coachman, upon putting in his hand, found nothing but
the padlock, which the thief left in order to prevent any un-
necessary expenee, as the repair of the old article would cost
less that a new one. When the houses at Gravesend heard of
the robbery, they immediately sent off intelligence to London,
and as the numbers of the stolen notes were known, and hand-
bills were immediately put in circulation in Gravesend and its
neighbourhood, there are some hopes entertained of the recovery
of the property.

On Thursday last a most respectable Meeting
of Hop Planters and Gentlemen interested in the trade, dined
at the SVoolpack, in Chilham, to compliment Mr. Jeremiah
Chittenden on the very spirited and liberal manner in which he
came forward as a purchaser of Canterbury and Fine East Kent
Hops. On Mr. Chittenden's health being drank, he returned
thanks in a very impressive speech, when he took occasion to
congratulate the planters on the prospect of the ensuing crop,
at the same time giving them an assurance he should continue
to be a much larger purchaser than he hitherto had been.
After which several songs, &c. were sung, and the company
departed highly delighted at an early hour.—(Kentish Gazette.)
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COAL AM RICET, FED. 9.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
751 Newcastle - 20
221 Sunderland - .

Price.
30s Od to 363 6d
293 6d to 39s 6d

BITHS.
On the Bth inst., in Harleyß-street, the lady of R. W. Hall
Dare, Esq., of a son.
On the sth inst., at Wandsworth, the lady of T. Chapman,
Esq., accoucheur, of a son and heir.
At Paris, on the 16th ult., the lady of James Arthur Wil-
son, 11. D., of a daughter.
Yesterday, the Oth inst., the wife of Mr. B. L. Slater, of
Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, solicitor, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the Bth inst., at Hurley, in the county of Berks, by the
lion. and Rev. A. F. Irby, the lion. Captain Charles Leonard
Irby, R.N., to Frances, daughter of John Mangles', Esq.
On the Bth inst., at Lewisham, Lieutenant Charles Goulier,
R.N., youngest son of the late Peter Goullet, of licavicree;
Devon, Esq., to Emma, fifth daughter of the late Thomas.
Britten, of Forest-hill, in the county of Kent, Esq.
At Alarylebone new church Walter Parker, son o H
f Wilharu
Mynn, Esq., of Wouldlini, , Kent, to Susanna annah,
. youngest daughter of NI Howard, Esq., of Park-street,
Grosvenor-square.