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LONDON :
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22; 1841.

The resolutions adopted by a meeting of Mem-
bers of the House of Commons on Saturday,
which are inserted in another part of The
Sun, will have • an important influence on the
fate of the country. rNovv that they have
been adopted and circulated, it will be im-
possible for the Government, of which these
gentlemen are supporters, to succeed either in
carrying a loan or in levying new taxes. At the
same time the. expenditure exceeds the revenue,
without the least probability, as the _Examiner
observes, owing to the present state of Europe,
,of lessening the expenditure. The Government
has no alternative therefbre but to set about
lowring the Impart Duties, and modifying, if
it do not abolish, the discriminating duties.
The ToAles may fancy there is a third state pos-
sible.-7.t.iw advent of their friends to office. But
their 'frienth.; consist mainly of bread-taxers, and
when they come into office it will be impossible
for .the 1p either to raise a loan or increase the
taxes, Ord they cannot diminish the expen-
diture. They have approved of our policy in re-
gard to Turkey, which has caused the increase
.of expenditure, and the suspicions excited
abroad of their intentions, will only add to the
necessity for increasing our forces. Moreover,
their advent to power would cause an adltional
force to be employed in Ireland. Under such
oicum.stances we are • safe in concluding that a

Tory Government, supported by bread-taxers,
would be resisted by the bulk of the town popula-
tion in increasing th e taxes, unless it first abolished
or modified the bread tax. A Tory Government,
then, would soon come to a still stand. In either
and every case, the modification of all discrimi-
nating duties, or the abolition of them, including
the Corn-laws, is at hand. Courage, free traders !
The deficiency of the revenue will ensure you
success.

It gives us great satisfaction to find the Times
has taken up the cause of commercial freedom,
and become a strenuous advocate for a reduction
of duties. Such proceedings justify the views we
have taken, and convince us that the time is not
far off when both parties in the House of Com-
mons must agree to remove some of the fetters
with which our Legislature has bound the trade
of England, and of the world.
The Times, however; insidiously tried on Saturday
to make it appear that the Whigs have neglected
" for ten years to -apply their own principles,"
mid that the merit of removing the fetters from
our trade, is much more due to the Tories than
the Whigs. We are delighted to conclude, that
the principles of f'ree trade have made an unde-
niable and irresistible progress, since the Times
finds it convenient, just as the Tories, accord-
ing to their own statement, are on the eve of
achieving a great victory, and are able to
trample all opposing- interests into the mire, to
appeal to the public on behalf of them as the
zealous advocates of free trade. Those principles
have become the masters of the Times and the
Tories; and they now therefore humble them-
selves before the irresistible power of truth.
Our Contemporary justly points out that Mr.
PITT, before he had heartily embraced the policy
in support of which he waged a bloody war
against the principles he professed ere he was
corrupted by-power, and before Toryism" checked
his benevolent and enlightened aspirations,"
was a friend to free trade. We cheerfully con-
cede that merit to Mr. PITT. We only re-
gret that he did not follow out his pro-
fessions, and that his successors of the Tory
school, forgetting all his lofty words, imitated
only his pernicious practices. We admit, too,
that 'Mr. HUSKISSON promoted the principles of
free trade to a certain extent, and that he was
then in office with the Tories. He succeeded,
however, more by the support of the Whigs in
doors and out of doors than by the support of his
,own party. But whatever may have been Mr.
PITT'S and Mr. HusxlssoN's merits—and it does
not say much for the present race of Tories that
the Times is obliged to quote them—the present
race of Tories is decidedly opposed to free trade.
We quite agree with the Times that the Minis-

ters have not waked out their own principles ;
they have not given free trade in bread ;
they have not put an end to the discrimi-
nating duties on sugar, though they induced
us to pay 20,000,000/. for the property of the
planters in slaves, and now make us pay those
planters between 2,000,000/. and 3,000,000/. an-.
nually more, on the pretence that they must be
paid to make them take care of their former
slaves. The Whigs have not put an end to the
discriminating duties on timber, and they have
not—we have continually contended—they have
not done what they ought, to set trade free, and
give prosperity to the nation. So far we cordially
concur with the Times. But when our Contempo-
rary says the Whig Ministers have not followed
out their own principles, he admits that those
principles are not even professed, much less acted
on, by the Tories.

Why have the Whigs not worked out their
own principles? Because not being enthusiastic
believers in the bright faith of free trade, they
were unable to overcome the sinister opposition
of the Tories. The Tories, uniting with an abo-
minable clique of American land jobbers, and
dealers in old ships, who care as little for the
one or the two thousand seamen they drown every
year as the bread-taxers care for the many many
thousands of human beings whom they annually
starve out of existence, defeated Lord ALTHORP
when he proposed to alter and amend the Timber
Duties. The Tories did that. The Tories,
too, opposed every attempt which Mr. P.
TuomsoN, now Lord SYDENTIAIII, made to allow
corn to be ground in bond; and the only opposi-
tion which was made to Mr. LAEOUCHERE'S
poor measure for equalizing the duties on East
and West India rum came from the Tory
benches. It is true that the Whigs have not
worked out their own principles, but it is equally
true that to those principles the Tories are heart
and soul opposed, and would not allow Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL, were he in office as •their man, to
carry them into execution.
We take the appeal of the Times in behalf of
the Tories to be a certain proof that the town

population are becoming sensible of the

enormous injustice which is done to them under
the pretext of protecting this interest and that

interest.

The Times sees that the nefarious

game of plunder in the guise of patriotism ap-
proaches its end. The admirable Report and

evidence of the Import Duties' Committee have

opened the eyes of the people. They are re-
solved apparently to bestir themselves in the

matter.

We believe that several Members of

Parliament have also resolved to promote that

agitation, and that they have come to a resolu-
tion to resist all loans and all fresh taxes, and to

insist on a reduction of discriminating duties.
The townspeople are now, therefore, as it were,
invited both by Whigs and Tories to make good
their demands. If they desire to have the

import duties placed on a just founda-
tion, if they desire to have our tariff amended,
if they desire to have an end put to legal pilfer-
ing, they have only now to arouse themselves, and
they must be successful. ,We have already ap-
pealed to London. Why should not Bristol,
Liverpool, LeAs, and Manchester take up the
same cause ? No Ministry can long resist them,
still less a Ministry which has no inclination to

resist them, but which requires to be impelled
forward by being assured of the support of public

opinion. The Whigs will act on their own princi-
pies when they see those principles enforced
by the town population. Let the people, then,
hold public meetings, and send up numerous

petitions for the repeal of the Corn-law,
and in favour of the principles of free trade,
and they may be assured of commanding the
support of the Ministers. They require to be
emboldened by the strong expression of public
opinion, and, to give thbm courage, we call on
the town population to speak out.

We learn from the Manchester Times that the
Anti-Corn-law League held their annual meeting
at their rooms on Thursday. It affords us great
pleasure to 'perceive no trace of any dispute or
difference amongst the members on account of
the Walsall election, which was said by some of
the lukewarm friends of the League to have of-
fended several of its supporters. We rejoice also
to see no abatement of principle, no decay of
hope, but a firm, consistent, and vigorous ad-
hesion to the great principle of total and imme-
diate repeal, and strong hopes of success at no
distant day. Mr. COBDEN said—.

But I tell you this—that it would be impossible to carry
our agitation on any other principle than that on which we
have now started. I recollect that, in 1834, there was an
Association established in this town. you will find a re-
port of their first meeting in t'-e Guardian of February 1.
Our excellent friend (Mr. Smith) was the President of
it, and Mr. Mark Phi'ios and Mr. Greg were among the
gent'emen who attended the first meeting, but they were
wici‘ed to be very " moderat..." They were told not t
be " violent," and certainly, when I look to the resolu-
tions which they pasted I cannot rccuse them f dn.
rega-ding the advice.—(Laughter.) They associatid
themselves for the purpose of cirr)i g some " modi.
ticei ,n " of the Corn-laws:. —( Renewed laughtcr.) I
believe the Association li, get ed , on some monthv,
.
and I think our friend Mr. Smith was left mums
the expentes.—(Great laughter.) They adopted a pe-
tition to the Legislature. it appears, and I believe the
pra)er c f that peti inn was very " moderate' too, and
merely asked for something less than was wanted—some-
thing less than justice—(Applause)—and therefore there
was no great interest taken in it by the gre-t body of
merchants and manufacturers; there was no rallying
round it as there has been round yours, and hence it has
been unable to exist...-( Hear.) The proceedings of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the same year, la e: e
much of the same character. On turning to the reports
ofits meetings,
you will find our excellent President
made a vigorous effort to effect something better, but he
was told that no petition could be presented then—that
the time bad not arrived—(Laughter)—that Mr. Macau-
lay had said Ministers, though they might have power to
try a " moderate". meanie, yet advised that the question
should t be " :Tasted," and the motion fell to the ground.
The result is the establishment of this Association for the

purpose of effecting the "total and immediate repel of'
the Corn-laws"—(Applause)—and I appeal to all that
has taken place before or since as justifying the course 'a e
have pursted.—( Renewed applause.) And now, when
there is evideacu we have not mistakes our path, when
there is evidence, as Mr. Prentice justly said, of a moving
Haloes-at the dry bones, it behoves us to be careful how we
depart one hair's-b; eadth from the path, for if we do we
shall assuredly share the fate of the Association of 1834
and fail in our object.—(Applause.) At present we are
in the right position. I feel assured that no ;Ministry will
ever think ofpassing over another Session without settles-
themselves vigorously t) work to revise our present tariffs.
—( Hear.) There is no other cry that will avail the can-
didates at another election but that of " no bread-tax,"—
(Hear, hear.) I appeal to our experience at Walsall for a
confirmation of this fact.
Those sentiments were responded to by the
cheers of the meeting, and in them we find an
ample justification of our conduct. We are quite
sure that the demand for the total and imme-
diate repeal is just, and if it be zealously sup-
ported, resistance will be speedily overcome. We
have within these few days acknowledged the
zeal and fervour with which the Puseyites pur-
sue their ,object, and they obtain great success.
They are sincere believers in the dogmas they
teach ; and if those who believe in the sublime
doctrines of free trade, be equally sincere, and
equally zealous, a more brilliant success, because
their doctrines will be snore beneficial, will
crown their exertions. The free trade.
advocates have taken up the question on
the principles of morality ; it is no longer
advocated as a mere benefit to the cotton manu-
facturer, or the rnanufitcturer of hardware, though
both would be benefited by free trade, but as a
great moral question which concerns the well-
being of mankind in all ages. Thus, Mr. SMITH
the Chairman of the League, in commencing the
business of the meeting, said,
Since my return home it bas been a part of my public
diries to sit as magistrate on the bench several times in
the police court of the adjoining heroes!' of Salford ; and
I Lain been really shocked at the amount of juvenile de-
linquency which I have witnessed, showing an amount of
distress in the town of which I had no previous concep-
tion.—( Hear, hear.) And what are we to look forward
to, I would ask, in the rising generation when we see youths
scarcely the height of this table whose parents not bating
the means of educating them, leave then' to run about
the streets, or send them there to Leg or steal the means
of their support ? (Hear, hear.) I was much
struck with a boy of this sort the other day whet was
brought sp, and from his appearance I was led to ask whei-
cher his parents were present. A decent-looking man
stepped forward and said be was the boy's father, and I
said, " Why do you let your boy ramble about the streets
thus, and get among thieves and bad characters (be bad
been stealing from a shop), instead of putting him to
school, or taking care of him in some other way ?" The
man said he could not afford to put him to achool. Then I
said you should take care of him yourself. " Take care
of him myself, Sir," said the man, "it is impossible ; I am
obliged to work fourteen or fifteen hours c-day to get pota-
toes for my family to live on—l am a hand-loom weaver,
Sir."—( Hear, hear.) And such I learn is the case with
many of these poor people ; they are obliged to work hard
during the whole day to get a bare and scanty supply of
food for their family, are left wholly destitute of education
or moral culture, and allowed to become the companions of
the vicious and depraved.

The want of adequate wages, then, brings about
neglect of children, and neglected children in-
crease the number of criminals, and help to pro-
mote public demoralization. No community can
exist, much less flourish, with a completely de-
moralized population; and when men begin to
see that the bread tax, which begins in plunder
by law, leads to much plunder in opposition to
the law—that, in fact, it makes roguery the prin-
ciple of the community, it is impossible that they
should, for their own safety, tolerate such a per-
verse and ruinous system.

At the meeting the Report of the proceedings
of the League for the last year was read and
agreed to. Resolutions were passed approving
of what has already been done, and pledging the
League to continue the same exertions in future
for the abolition of the Corn-law. The members
of the League have already done much, yet a
little longer struggle and victory will be their own.
They will be honoured by this generation, and
blessed in ages to come for their noble exertions,
when our distant posterity shall trace up to the
League the zealous and consistent advocacy of
those great principles of freedom for industry, to
which nations hereafter will owe their prosperity.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and
Saturday have reached us. in the Chamber of
Deputies on Friday M. JOUFFROY read the Re-
port of the Commission upon the Secret Service
Bill, the adoption of which is always tantamount
to a vote of confidence in the Government. This
Report is too long for insertion in our columns,
but the interest which attaches to it induces us

to make room for some extracts from it. The

Report sets out with giving the SOULT-GUIZOT
Cabinet its entire and unqualified support. It
examines the cause of so many changes in the Ca-
binets of France during the last ten years, and
discovers it to be the abandonment of the great
principles of Government by the Deputies, which
has split the two great parties who were recog-
nized as the Government and the Opposition into
innumerable petty factions, acting without con-
cert and without confidence in themselves or
others. The Report next proceeds to examine
the causes of the present isolation of France, and
here we have an honest sentence of reprobation
pronounced upon the policy of M. TniErts and
the war faction.

The Chamber had decided that Turkey should be placed
beyond the reach of any power desirous of aggrandising itself
at the expense of that empire, and that the balance of power in
Europe should be maintained. This was the policy of the
present Cabinet. The policy of the Cabinet of the Ist
March was very different. M. Thiers would only listen to the
settlement of the Eastern question on the condition of the ag-
grandisement of the Pacha of Egypt, which was in truth a
very secondary object, as regarded the interests of France. If
the Cabinet of Ist March had' succeeded in obtaining the con-
cession of Syria for the Pacha, the main object of the true
policy of France would nothave been gained. '1 here would have
been no European guarantee, and the Turkish empire would
simply have been replaced in the precarious situation in which it
was under the treaty of Kutahia. t he policy of the Cabinet of the
Ist of March obtained less than that of the present Cabinet would
have achieved. England, like ourselves, forgetting the
greater for the lesser policy, and losing sight of the future in
the present, concluded a treaty in which we should have figured
for the protection of the just interests of Egypt. You know the
result. Instead of playing a great part in the arrangement,
after having demanded one, France has been idle, and instead of
obtaining better conditions for the Facha, and preserving her I
legitimate influence in the Levant, she has partly lost it.
Without assuming any part in the settlement of the Eastern
question, France has armed, and seriously burthened her I
finances. She has all the expense of an active po -
hey without any of its advantages. She has been thrown
into, and remains in, a state of isolation in the midst of Europe."
Here the report, after repeating that this was a great fault,
observes ".that it may be turned to good account, if France,
isolated, but great, will always hold herself ready to throw her
influence in the scale of nations for the protection of the prin-
ciples of justice and the preservation of their rights. In this
view her isolation will be not a source of weakness, but of
strength. As the present Cabinet appeared to be resolved
upon this just and wise policy, which had peace for its basis, so
the Committee felt that it owed to it confidence and support."

The day is not distant when every 'reflecting
man in France will readily subscribe to the opi-
nions of the Commission respecting the mischiev-
ous tendency of Tit TER& Oriental policy. Already
is the decline of French influence in Turkey and
Egypt so marked as to attract very general at-
tention along the shores of the Levant. But we
cannot go along with the commission in supposing
that France can remain isolated and at peace
with all the world. Were she a petty or a fourth-
rate Power, she might do so, but in the exalted
sphere in which she moves, political isolation be-
comes as impossible as the) maintenance of a sys-
tem of commercial and social isolation. While
France remains isolated, Europe enjoys not peace
' but a truce. But let us hear the Report :
' The possibility of a war with Europe had revived the dis-
couraged hopes of the factions, and the cabinet of the Ist
March in the perspective of such a war, did not put down an
effervescence which it hoped to convert into a generous dis-
play of patriotism. Nothing injured that Cabinet so much as
those tumultuous manifestations which menaced order and the
laws. With the most honourable intentions the Cabinet of the
those who think thatfroerio.
Ist March here committed a great error. We are not among
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moderate but firm application of the laws which protect order.
This is, again, a point on which the government of the 99th.
October ought not to imitate the policy which
anti, in our opinion, an erroneous appreciation of
the true strength of the country in the event of war had caused
the late Cabinet to adopt.' The Committee adhere entirely to
the principles professed on this subject by the present ministry.
The question as to whether. the existing laws suffi.ce for the
doubtwe do not hesitate to say
in the Committee. We
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enforced. We have a confident hope that the
they must be
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necessary to pass . such laws, if
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application of these laws very rare , but when the period has
abolishing or weakening them."
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It tells
TITTERS and his friends rather smartly.
words can do, that
This is ' laying the lash on the back of M.
the ex-Premier, as plainly as
lie is a political humbug, who does the dirtiest

work with the dirtiest tools. Taken in conjunc-
tion with the preceding paragraph, these extracts
from the Repolt show that the Commission
rightly attribute the humiliation of France in the
East to M TIIIERS, as well as the enormous ex-
pense to which France has been put to establish
useless armaments, which have already paralyzed
the national industry. We now come to the
paragraph in the Report which has reference to
the Liberty of the Press.
We combated for fifteen years to obtain the liberty of the
press—against its abuses there are laws, but the Government
apply them with moderation and firmness. Let the Cham-
bers set the example, and cause in their own body that society
to be respected which they represent, but.let us not go be-
yond legal and constitutional repression. The press is a
power which weakens itself by its own excesses, and it has
never less authority, less influence on the public mind, than
when it forgets the dignity and grandeur of its mission. Thei e
is no better .urb on the press than a firm majority of this
Chamber, and a powerful Cabinet ; this remedy is in your own
hands. As to the Government, ask nothing from it on this
subject but the execution of the laws. '1 he Government. has a
natural support in the press. It is that cf the journals which
approve of, its principles, and support them without fee. he
Chamber itself may contribute to that education of society on
which depends its repose, and would render an eminent ser-
vice to the country by causing the electors to receive the tex-
tual report of those important deliberations which axe so dis-
torted by the journals. .

We are glad to find that the report advocates
the enactment of no new laws, either for the
suppression of libel or sedition. There are already
too many penal laws for the punishment of all
classes of offences in France. This is one of the
reasons why most of these offences are so rife.
When laws are too stringent the humanity of the
public causes them to fall into desuetude, and
thus the result is the same as if there were none.
Punishments should always bear proportion to
the extent to which the national voice is raised
against the offences which they are intended to
repress.

The Report of the Commission Was ordered to
be printed.

In the Camber of Deputies on Saturday, M.
MERMILLIOD brought on his motion against the
treaty conclude with Buenos Ayres. This is
heaping more coals on the devoted head of M.

'NIERS. The discussion had, not concluded up
to post hour on Saturday.
Great losses have been sustained on the coast
of Tunis during the late storm. The French brig
Ridals, freighted on account of the war depart-
ment, was lost with her whole cargo. Many
merchantmen perished.

General BUGEAUD arrived at Marseilles on the
14th, on his way to take the command in Africa.
There is no longer a doubt that the expedition
against ABD-EL-KADER will be on a most exten-
sive scale.

Letters from the Havannah state the Spanish
authorities . have refused an exequatur to the
newly-appointed English Consul, Mr:TURNBULL,
in consequence of something which he said or
written about slavery and the slave trade., Mr.
TURNBULL was, therefore, :obliged to delegate
his functions to Mr. JACKSON, a member of the
Mixed Commission.

A letter, of the 7th, from Vienna, in the Carlsrulie Ga-
zette, says— •
" Welearn from good authority thatithe negotiations between
the Allied Powers and France are in a fair way, so that it .may
be said that France will shortly take part in the further nego-
tiations respecting the affairs of the East."

We have published, after the Moniteur, the Convention be-
tween the Government and the Belgian Maritime Society,
dated the I2th instant. The Society will dispatch a ship
every two months for the port of Antwerp, for Rio Janeiro, and
every other time to Valparaiso.
The first vessel which will proceed to Rio and Valparaiso is
to sail on the 15th of March. It is the • Industriel schooner,
which lately returned from the latter port. Eight vessels be-
longing to the Society arc designated for this service.

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Colonel Powell, M.P., is, we understand, laid
tp at Brighton, and will be unable to attend in
tis place in the House of Commons to-night or
.0-morrow.

We regret also to state that Mr. Calcroft,
M.P. for Wareham, is confined to his house by
scarlet fever.
The New Zealand Company have, it is said,
contracted for a Bishop. By having with them
a person to give them absolution it seems that
they set out resolved to sin. Let them, however,
take care. There are various sorts of Bishops
now in the market, and if they gat hold of a
Puseyite he will prefer his dogmas to navigation,
and make the sailors, like the Spaniards, say their
prayers when a storm is coming on instead of
making their ship snug. The Puseyite Bishop,
too, is quite convinced that a knowledge of the
Fathers is far better than a knowledge of agri-
culture, and he will insist on their leaving their
barren lands unfilled till they have learned the
holy mysteries which he says are the basis of
happiness here and hope hereafter. The New
Zealand Company seems to us in this predica-
ment. If they get a Puseyite Bishop they will
have some religion, and all other knowledge
will be derided and condemned ; if they get
another sort of a Bishop, secular knowledge may
be tolerated, but they will have only tree dry
husk of a dead faith.

EXCHEQUER COURT Ci`IIIS DAY.,

JUDGMENT IN THE CASE OF THE MANCHESTER CHARTER,

RUTTER V. CHAPMAN.

This case, in which the validity of the Manchester Charter
was involved, has been argued upon two occasions before the
Judges of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, in the Ex-
chequer Chamber, and judgment was gi7en thismorning for the
defendant by a majority of 4 to 3, by which the validity of the
charter is established. The majority in favour of the validity
of the charter were Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Justices Bo-
sanquet, Matteson, and Coltman. The minority were Lord
Denman, Justices Coleridge and Williams,

THE WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE
STREET.

NOON Fen. 22
Barometer 30'42 In.
Thermometer
Highest ..... .... . 59
Lowest
Wind S. E. by E.—Ft-cc-zing Point 32 Deg.
•Mt•9I.NSIMIRM.M.,Ii 1ini......

The re-appointment of the Select Committee of
la-at year hies cameil some sir among the banking interest.
The remaihiog effort to be made is more especially on tie
part rf the joint-stock banks, whether of issue or other-
wise, who conceive that they have teen almost wholly
overlooked in the early part ef the in,uiry, and who will
hate much to urge against the prcject they believe tt.e
Government to entertain, of establishing one great batik
of issue for the whole country. Delegate; from the va-
rious banks, consequently, ate expecte I in town, and head-
quarter; have been engaged, where deliberations may take
place, and unity of action be secures.-7ieres.
THE INUNDATION AT BRENTFORD.—The
fifth and last day's inquiry into t! .e circum- tances con-
netted with tlne death of the lad Spruce at Breetford took
place on Thursday. Af er a very long inquiry the Jery
reti.ei, and on Vie folloeiug ma r havir.g been
locked up for eleven hours and a ha-f, they returned
special yerdict to the eff.ct, as we read it, that the loss of
life was caused by the weak and defective state of the
wall; of the reserycir belonging to the Regent's Caaal
Company. It begins in the followirg strain :—" We find
that William Spruce being then and there on board a co-
tain barge," Sec., and repeats eight times the said words
" then a'd there" in the verdict.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 19.—The
sugar market is heavy and prices are declining. Our
market is, in fact, in a most anomalous state, subject to the
caprice of any large and respectable dealer from other
potty, who may amuse himself with speculative experi-
ment., sometimes at the expense of the merchant, some-
times of the dealer. Under this no very pleasant
discipline, our sucars are sometimes bought up,
and we are reduced to the greatest straits for a sup.
ply ;at others the market is glutted. These aro
the natural consequences of the system of . monopoly
which has been so long established, and of 63 scarcely
creditable manceuvrcs retorted to is the trade, and which
have rendered our market the fluctuating sport of any long
head and heavy purse that may cume to measure strength
with the buyers or sr Here. At the present moment our
offices are filled with samples from London and Liverpool,
kindly sent to supply the deficiencies of the " second city
in till kingdom." flats humence imports into London from
the East have so depressed the trade, that these is not much
probability cf extensive business being transacted.— Bristol
Mercury.
NA RBETII.--Cll uncH-RATEs.--No Church-
rate has been made in this parish for the last eight years,
and it ought to be recorded, to the honour of the worthy
Rector and his congregaiu, that the necessary expenses
hove been defrayed by tbemselver. It now appears that
the fabric of the Churolt stands in need of repair, and a
subscription has been entered into for the purpose of pay-
ing the expenses, to which the Dissenters arc contributing
liberally. This is as it should be; and were the example
of Narbeth generally u4opted, Church-rates would die a
natural Beata, and the eontenti,ns and animosities whi9h
they never fal. to enggntigr wcpld only iP IFPPvin as st
matter of history,— Weishenan.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
vessel the Often, T. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived offihe
Custom House yesterday viith the Duteb-mad.