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London, England, 1824-05-14 00:00:00

THE ETs.

---5-E, MAY 14.
CORN EXClite
sacks. Prime dry samples of
week are tolerably good, being
The arrivals of Grain qlgo; Oats, HAI); Irish Oats.
Flour'attention of our millers at Monday's
Wheat command ttlties are neglected. The trade in Barley prices, but other (inn Beans and Peas no alteration since
continues veil cl: has been something doing this morning in
Monday.
the —nos are unaltered.
good Oats, but r
\l,WirOatquasgeoros;
curTIIFIELD 3IARKET, MAY 14.
have„o particular observations to offer on the Smithfield
We iie following is an accurate Report
Market-- CATTLE AT MARKET.
296 I Sheep and Lambs
Beasts Barley,s,lso
230 i Pigs
Calves
To sink the Offal, per one of 8211. reef
38 Od to 48 6dl Veal ss Od to 5s 611
Mutton 3s 10d to 48 fki Pork 4a 6tl to 5s ed
Lamb Os 0 to 7s Od.
NAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
May £4 Os to Xi 15s I Clover .£s Os to £6 68
Straw £2 Os to £2 Os.

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extraits from the Morning Papers, Mal 14.

[THIS TIDITS.j
An interesting conversation took place last
night in the llouse of Cornmons on the subject
of the existing Corn Laws, in consequence of
which, we hope that a total change of the sys-
tem will take place. Mr. Curteis, the Member
for Sussex, and a Gentleman who, we believe,
retains much land in his own management, com-
plained that the averages by which the importa-
tion of foreign grain was to be regulated were
never fairly struck. It would be a miracle if
they were, when those to whom the business is
confided have a direct personal interest, and a
-warm personal feeling, against discharging their
duty honestly. It should seem to us, when we-
consider the situation of the person complaining,
as if the zeal to keep out foreign grain, by the
exhibition of apparently low averages, had real-
ly, though unintentionally, injured the native
grower. This is no jest. Mr. Curteis probably
is not in the secret ; neither are we entirely :
but we know that the corn-market is at pre-
sent as much a mystified, obscure, whispered
thing, as the smuggling market. There is as
much false swearing in one as in the other;
with this difference—that the one system of
knaVery is practised to keep out the foreign
article, the other to get it in. With all the pains
that we take, we are never able to procure a full
and fair return oT the sales in Mark-lane: and on
every publication of the state of the market there,
we are sure to receive a great many letters from
corespondents, pointing out deceptions by which
we have been misled. Mr. Huskisson acknow-
ledged the existence of the evils of which Mr.
Curties complained ; and allowed the imperfection
of that system from which the evils emanated.
It is a grievous solecism in political economy to
enact laws, the executors of which shall have an
interest in eluding and violating them.

[BRITISH PRESS.
Another tax was voluntarily abandoned by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer last night—that of
the remaining salt duty. Colonel Wodehouse
brought forward his motion—" That the present.
duty on snit be continuedywith a'view of afford-
ing his Majesty's Government the power of re-
ducing the assessed taxes, payable on houses of
a low rate of assessment." The Chancellor of
the Exchequer immediately rose, and said it was
ILs deliberate opinion that Government was
pledged to the repeal of the remaining salt duty,
if it accorded with the wishes of the House.—
The Right Hon. Gentleman said, he did not
think the repeal was of that importance in which
some Gentlemen held it ; but as Government
was pledged to the repeal, if desired by' the
general feeling of the House, he , would re-
commend the Honourable Member for Norfolk to
withdraw his motion. If not withdrawn, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer said, he would move the
previous question. The Right Hon. Gentleman's
address was received all through with the loudest
cheers from both sides of the House, and Colonel
Wodehouse withdrew his motion. The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, by his conduct last
night, has earned another high claim to the con-
fidence and respect of the country. It gives the
assurance, that the remaining burdens yet press-
ing on the people at large will also be reduced
as soon as circumstances will permit, and not be
continued one hour beyond their actual necessity.
Ministers, by their present career in office, are
purchasing a well-earned and an enviable popu-
larity-, exceeding that possessed by any preced-
lug Administration in our memory.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Tuesday's Paris Papers reached us last night.
The Journal dcs Debuts again contradicts the ru-
mours of a French fleet at Rio Janeiro, as well
as some reports of a French naval force arrived
in the Tagus. The origin of the latter is stated
to be an order given to the French squadron at
Cadiz, to take the sea along the coasts of Spain
and Portugal in order to avoid the diseases inci-
dent to their being stationary in the hot season.
France, this Journal says, has no design upon
Brazil or any other quarter, or she would make
England undoubtedly, her ally, acquainted with
it. Possibly France has really no design of this
kind. The alternative however, put by way of
proof, that if she had, she should communicate it
to her ally, is not conclusive—or only as con-
vincing as that of the inn-keeper in Gil Blas—
" It is as I say, gentlemen, or I am not an ho-
nest man." Accounts in these Papers, profess-
ing to come from Gibraltar and other quarters,
state that the Royalists—or Spaniards rather, in
Peru, had gained a victory over the Independ-
ents, and were in substantial possession of the
country. The intelligence is stated to be brought
by the American corvette Fabius, which left Lima
at the end of December, and performed the
voyage in 105 days.

[NEW Timies.]
A Meeting was held yesterday by the London
Missionary Society. The London Missionary
Society gratefully acknowledge the attention
which was paid to their representations by Go-
vernment; while the Demerara Planters charge
it as a crime on Earl Bathurst, that he issued
orders to send home Mr. Smith to meet any
charges that might be brought, against him before
fhey Proclaimed •
a Jury of his countrymen !it
to be unconstitutional to rescue a Minister of the
Gospel from the grasp of Martial LAW—and that
*here the offence is actually charged to have
taken place when Martial Law did not exist ! It
is but justice to the West India Planters generally
to say, that few of them participate the turbulent
and irreligious spirit unblushingly avowed at De-
merara. Few of them would dare to assert that
Christianity must not be taught to slaves.—
So different the feeling which has been mani-
fested in the island, of. St. Vincent, that the Go-
vernor (Sir C. Brisbane), the Members of Coun-
cil, and the Mfnibers of the House of Assembly,
.have lately come forward in the handsomest man-
ner in support of the Wesleyan Missions. Sir

Charles subscribed 201.; the Members of Coun,
ell 161., Si., or 41. each ! the Members of As-
sembly 161., 81., and 51. each, and various other
sums, amounting in all to 6891. currency. There
cannot be a more instructive commentary on the
monstrous proceedings against the late Mr.
Smith than the violent Resolutions of the De-
merara Planters, and the Anti-Christian senti-
ments of the Demerara Journalist.

[MORNING POST.]
The Debate on Lord Althorp's motion, and
much more the appointment of the Committee,
in accordance with Mr. Goulburn's amendment,
will, we are convinced, give great satisfaction in
Ireland. When it is recollected that the object
of the latter is " to inquire into the nature and
extent of the disturbances in those districts which
have been subjected to the operation of the fa.
surrection Act." it will be admitted that a very
wide field indeed of investigation has been
thrown open. Besides although the parts of
Ireland which have not been proclaimed, may
be considerably behind that state of
improve-
ment and prosperity
which is so desirable,
it is allowed that the evils which afflict the
Sister Country are general to the Nvliole island;
and, therefore, in examining those portions
where the disease has assumed the most vi..
rulent character, there is a priori the greater cer-
tainty of discovering its real type and origin, as
well as of applying the best medicines for effect.
ing a cure. We cannot, in fact, imagine an Irish
grievance deserving of redress, the considera-
tion of which is not implied in the terms of
the amendment supported by his Majesty's Mi-
nisters. It also appears to us, that an investi-
gation embracing such a variety of important topics
to be at all practicable, should be more or less
limited in other respects. Had Lord Althorp's
motion been adopted, we fear no 'Committee
could thread its way through the labyrinth of
details it would have to encounter, so that in the
end Parliament and the Public would be as
much in the dark, and still more puzzled than
they are now. This complexity and confusion
are avoided by the course which has been chosen,
at the same time that the information and con-
clusions which will be obtained respectinga por-
tion of Ireland must be such as may be ap-
plied, with the necessary modifications, to the
whole of that country. T. gaiu these advantages,
it really seems to us that Government has made
great sacrifices, as well as shewn its sincere
anxiety to lay bare the roots of the mischievous
system prevailing in the sister country, rather
than make out a plausible case in justification of
the measures that have been hitherto employed
in that portion of the United Kingdom. Were
it otherwise, the matter for investigation might
easily have been narrowed to suit the object ;
but, on the contrary, by merely restricting the
details of the inquiry proposed by the Op-
position, while its principle was admitted,
the usual appendage of a Parliamentary
triumph—a large majority—was yielded to
the attainment of great national good. Having
said thus much of the result of the late debate,
we do not deem it our duty to notice particu-
larly many opinions advanced oh 'that occasion
with regard to Ireland. Sir Francis Burdett's
project of colonization is, in-our opinion, -inor9
classical and theoretical' than calculated to re-
lieve the Irish peasantry. Of all the people on
the face of the earth, we believe our fellow sub-
jects on the other side of the Channel the most
attached to " the fields where their forefathers
dwelt," and the least prone, except as an alter-
native from death itself, to migrate any where.
However, therefore, the Hon. Baronet's motives
shall be prized in Ireland, we imagine his new
panacea will meet with very few admirers.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
A few days ago a memorial, signed by the most
eminent merchants in the City of London, was
forwarded to his Majesty's Ministers, in which
were represented the great importance of the
trade existing between Great Britain and Co-
lombia, and Mexico ; the total want of regu.
far channels of communication with those' ris-
ing and productive States ; and the advantages
hich would be reaped by British merchants,
from the establishment of Post-office packet
stations in one convenient port of each of these
Republcs. It is this day understood that this
representation has been favourably received by
his Majesty's Government, and that two new
chains of packets will be established—the one
with Colombia, and the other with Mexico,
as soon as the necessary arrangements can be
completed. This improvement in the communi-
cation with Colombia and Mexico, will not be
attended with any additional expence to the
public, for the foreign mails are now generally
forwarded by his Majesty's brigs, and the
postages will fully repay the expences of the
additional post-office agents, which it will be ne-
cessary to employ. This will certainly be a most
important advantage to British subjects, who are
interested in the prosperity of the new American
States ; but still, until his Majesty's Ministers ap-
point Envoys or Ambassadors to reside in their
capitals, it is impossible for British industry to en-
joy a tithe of the advantages which a complete
recognition of their sovereignty and independence
would inevitably confer on them. It is asked by
some, why British commerce may not be equally
safe under the protection of Consols, as of En-
voys or Ambassadors ? to which, however, the
answer is extremely simple, for until the inde-
pendence of the Government of these States be ad-
mitted, it is impossible either to sue them, or to he
sued by them in a British Court of Justice. It is
not many months since the Lord High Chancellor
declared, that he knew not the Peruvian Go-
vernment, and it is still fewer days since the
Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
was
ofa
equally officially ignorant of the exist-
ence Government in Colombia. The mo-
ral effect, which the extraordinary conduct of
the British Ministers must produce, however, on
the feelings of the South Americans and of the
Mexicans towards the British nation, by delay•
ing to acknowledge their freedom, and to extend
towards them the common courtesy of civilized
o must be deeply injurious to British in-
terests,scyietfor it is insolent to say to these nations,

that the Government of England is secretly in-
clined to cultivate with them the advantages of
commercial relations, but that, at present, this
intercourse must not be visible to the Holy Al-
liance, and to the Bourbons.

CONSTANTINOPL E.-MOSQUES.

It may be interesting to our readers to present
to them a description of the interior of the
Mosques at Constantinople, which it rarely oc-
curs that Professors of the Christian faith are
permitted to see, since it is considered as cer-
tain death for Christians to enter the walls of
Mahomedan temples without most formal per.
mission, as will be seen from what follows :
" I had the good fortune to be here at the
time Sir Robert Liston intended to avail himself
of the privilege conceded to the British Ambas-
sadors during an embassy, namely, to enter and
examine the different Mosques of the Capital.—
On this occasion his Excellency, with distin-
qinguished politeness, invited the English Gen-
tlemen who were at Constantinople to accompany
him. They met in the palace at seven o'clock
in the morning, and each was accommodated with
a pair of slippers", which were put in the pocket.
The procession set out from thence, joined by
some Foreign Envoys, and went down to the
harbour, where all embarked in boats, preceded
by the Ambassador in his own state-barge. On
landing at the opposite side, they were met by
the Aoha'', or High Ecclesiastical Judge, on
horseback, with his attendants, and the whole
party walked direct to the Mosques, which were
visited in the following order
"Selim—liarige Djaniessi—Mahomet, dedicated to Ma-
hornet the Second—the Tomb of Mahootet—Solyman—Osman
—Santa Sophia—Sultan Achmet.
Before they entered, each of the party was
obliged to throw off his shoes at the great door
and put on slippers—as if the temple of Mahomet
was less contaminated by Christians treading in
the one than in the other. The chief object of
attraction was unquestionably the temple of St.
Sophia, originally built as a monument of na-
tional taste and religion, which is of greater ex-
tent than any of those originally founded by
Constantine, and at the prodigious expellee of
one million sterling. The altars were demo-
lished when the capital was taken by the Infidels,
who converted this edifice into a mosque. It is
269 feet in length, 243 in breadth, and ranks next
in point of dimensions to any other edifice, ex-
cept that of Great St. Paul's church in London,
which, it may be observed, is 1062 feet less in
length than that of St. Peter's at Rome, accord-
ing to a measurement I made of those cathedrals
on the spot ; their dimensions are enumerated on
the floor of St. Peter's. The entry to St. Sophia
differs from those of other churches, as it is not
by an ascent, but by a descent of steps. Cisterns
of water are erected near the door for the pur-
poses of ablution on the part of Mussulmen, con-
nected with their deVotions. The floor is covered
over with matting, and, the:church is surrounded
by lofty marble columns, many of which are of
green jasper. Some of them deviate from the
perpendicular position, and are supposed to have
originally adorned, the idolatrous temple at Ephe-
sus, and bear. a variety of -inscriptions of the
tenets of. Mahornedarr:buljef. Over these are a
ti
double range of gallerie-, thivhiah access was ob-
tained by the Christian Emperors on horseback,
when they visited the church for the purpose of
performing their devotions ; this was accom-
plished by a kind or
.paved way at the back,
gradually arising from the ground up to the gal-
leries, and is still in existence. The dome of
this edifice is upwards of 130 feet in diameter.—
It was adorned with scriptural pieces during the
age of Christianity, which have been defaced by
the Infidels, and manly of the inscriptions are not
intelligible, having also been obliterated by the
operations of time. A kind of altar is formed
at the upper end, and opposite to the entry of
the edifice, where copies of the Koran are
laid. On each side are large candlesticks, with
massy wax lights, each of these being probably 5
feet in height. To the right hand is a magnificent
balcony, reserved as a place for the Grand Sig-
nior, with gilded lattice or jealousy work in
front, resembling the principal side-box of a
theatre. Suspended from-the top of the centre
dome is, an enormous ring, or-circular frame, with
treble rows of paltry lamps, of different colours.
They were not illuminated on this occasion, but
when these are lighted up they cannot fail to
produce a fine effect on the whole interior of this
edifice. During the visit I perceived several
Mussulmen in different parts of the mosque, en-
gaged in offering up their prayers, and it may
be remarked, that in all places, public or private,
even in the very public streets, nothing is able
to draw aside their attention, or stop them for a
moment in the exercise of it, till these are finish-
ed. Previous to engaging in them and after they
are ended, they spread out small pieces of car-
pet, and lie down sans ceremonie, to enjoy sleep,
which certainly does not treat the temple of
Mahomet with much respect. No women are
permitted to have recourse to these places for the
performance of religious duties. I remarked se-
veral of the Turks grinning and gnashing their
teeth at our entrance as Christians, or " dogs,"
as they.call US, to their temple. Descriptions of
this church have been given with such high co-
louring, that I own I was completely disappointed
at seeing it.

r Although there are the remains of Mosaic work.
manship, in apparently tolerable preservation, yet
many of the effigies of saints and other ojects of
that kind have been most barbarously destroyed
during the sacrilegious pillage and invasion of
this Christian
church ; in short, the whole edi-
fice being dark, similar to a dungeon, may
be described as gloomily magnificent, and in
point of elegance cannot compete with many
of the ordinary Catholic churches.—( Travels in
in Turkey, Greece, and Spain, by NV rd R
ILLIAAE
WILSON, Esq.)

The Election of Recorder for the Borough of
East Looe took place o❑ the 10th instant, when
Lieut.-Col. But,',tit ELPIIINSTOWE, 3d Guards,
was elected. The vacancy was occasioned by
the demise of his late father-in-law, Vice Ad-
miral Sir EDWARD BULLER, Bart.