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London, England, 1824-03-10 00:00:00

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pay the highest rate of direct taxes, above 300
francs, and who thus, by their wealth, acquire a
right to a double vote—one for their district
(arrondissement), anti' another for their depart-
ment. The qualification for the latter in Paris, on
the present occasion, amounts to 1,297 francs.-1
The college is divided into five sections, which re-
turn four mernbers,and the total number of elec-
tors on the list is only 27059 ; or about 500 voters
for one representative. The ministerial candi-
dates are Messrs. OLLIVIEIt, BRETON, BUTEn, and
:13oNstrr ; their constitutional antagonists are
Messrs. MANUEL, LAFITTE, TEIINAUX, and DE-
LESSERT. The first day's operations are always
limited to the confirmation of the bureau appoint-
ed by the Crown, or the nomination of a new
; and according as the electors evince
their opinions and their strength, by confirm-
ing or over-throwing this appointment, their
Ministerial or opposition bias is shown. Judg-
ing, by this test, we can anticipate the return of
°lily one constitutional candidate out of the four
'which compose the deputation of the great col-
lege of Paris, as only one of the bureaux has
been changed. These Papers contain no other
intelligence of the slightest interest, if we except
the following paragraphs from the Etoile

" The wife of General Alma arrived at Havre four days ago,
° board a vessel from Lisbon : she is accompanied by her
father. They will proceed directly to London by the packet-
boat, without going to Calais, as they at first intended.

" The first numbers of the Greek Gazette, minted at Alias°.
lonithi, have been received at Corfu : they are read with ex.
tretne avidity. It is announced that a French journal will
shortly be printed in the same town.—Europe will at length
obtain information of what is passing, from other organs than
those of the Turks.
.4." Lord Byron is still at Ilissolonghi, where the rights of
eutzensh
iP were conferred on him in full Senate. His new
fie'
The Triumph of Hellas, has been translated into
Greek..,

GREEK LoAx.—We have for some time
silently viewed the progress of this interest-
ing contract with England, and we feel ex-
ceedingly gratified to find that it has singly
stood the late general shock in the Stock
Markets ; indeed the attempt to foist a de-
lusive loan upon the generosity of the British
Capitalists has been successfully exposed and
is now entirely withdrawn. And we are as-
sured, from the general feeling in favour of
Greek Independence, and the positive knowledge
that all the great European Powers are agreed
upon this important measure, that a gradual, but
constant rise, will attend the Greek Loan.

The fall in our Funds yk•sterday and this morn-
iog, we are positively assured from authority on
which we can place the most undoubted reliance,
was occasioned by a party who made a simultaneous
movement in Paris, in order to get into Stock in
both Markets upon their own terms. The plan
succeeded most completely : the nerveless gave
wav, and, like a flock of sheep, scampered one
after the other. The report of a Congress
is totally without foundation ; for we are po-
sitively assured that the very best under-
Standing prevails not only between this
country and France, but every European Go-
vernment, as regards the South American Ques-
tion. There is but one obstacle to general har-
mony in Europe as well as South America, viz.
the personal ignorance and perverse obstinacy
of Fra.,,,AND VII.

Twelve
CITY,
o'clock.—Consols opened at 922
Account, but rose to 93k, at which they are
up to this hour. In the earlier part of the morn-
ing there were a great many Sellers, and a great
deal of business doing ; but within this half hour
there have been good purchases made. The Ex.
presses from Paris bring Private Letters with the
Renter after 'Change hours, which were 100 f. 75c.
ex-dividend. The fall is attributed to the do-
cuments which Mr. CANNING laid before the
Rouse conceruing South America. The above
Private Letters, from the best authority, state,
that accounts are received at Paris of the Em-
peror of RvsstA being seriously indisposed.
PORtIGN
MAllHET.—Fluctuatious to a great
'extent have taken place in the above Market
this morning, particularly in Russian and Austrian
ScriP• Austrian Scrip was done as low as 924,
and, afterwards rose again to 1148. A great deal
or business has been done in the above Market.

Mr. HusEissoN, as we noticed yesterday, has
deferred,, for upwards of two years, the com-
mencement of the threatened experiment upon
the Silk Trade, if indeed the postponement is
not to he considered as a total abandonment of
the project. From what fell from Lord Ltvcit-
t.oot last night in the House of Lords, it is evi-
ditnt that the threatened repeal of the bounties
on Coarse Linens will also be either abandoned,
Or Considerably modified,—the Noble Earl, in
"ikuowledging that he had been mistaken as to
the state of the Irish Linen Trade, having
at the
34rne time admitted that it is necessary to proceed

with caution in introducing alterations into esta-1
bushed systems. This is very gratifying ; and in
connection with what has taken place in the House
of Commons, proves that Ministers are seriously
re-considering their intended measures. They
seem disposed to consent to their general post-
ponement ; and we are quite sure that if they
will only institute a careful inquiry into the sup-
posed soundness of that general principle, the
adoption of which has nearly precipitated them
into a course of domestic policy destructive of the
best interests of the nation, they will not only be-
come convinced of its utter fallacy, but will even-
tually adopt, on diametrically opposite principles,
a totally different set of measures from those which
they have just been endeavouring to press upon the
country.--In the mean time, the threatened re-
peal of the legislative protection and encourage-
ment afforded to the Silk and Linen Manufac-
tures, being apparently deferred, there remain
only the cases of the Fisheries,of the Coal Trade,
and of the Woollen Manufacture. With re-
spect to the Fisheries, we must presume, from
no opposition having been offered to the repeal
of the bounties, on the part of those who are in-
terested, either that the Fisheries do not require
the aid of bounties, or that the existing bounties
are so insignificant, as not to be worth contending
for. The Coal question, as our Readers are
aware, is occupying the attention of the North-
umberland and Durham Coal Owners; and if
they can establish that the destruction of their
monopoly of the London Market will injure
the invaluable nursery of seamen which is
provided by the present mode of supplying
the Metropolis with coals, we sincerely hope
that they will be successful in their oppo-
sition to the projected innovation. As for
the Wool Question, we conceive it to be utterly
impossible for Ministers now to press that part of
their new system, after having felt it necessary to
withdraw from their attack upon the Silk and
Linen Trades. If they have been impressed
with doubts on the question, as affecting Silk and
Linen, there is absolute and undoubted certainty
as to the folly and impolicy of permitting the ex-
portation of British Wool. If that measure be per-
sisted in, we shall not be surprised at any extent
to which theoretical absurdity-may hereafter be
carried. In our next war-with France, for example,
a Member of the Legislature might propose that the
French Government should be suffered to recruit
its navy in our ports, with the best seamen and
naval officers of England, if our officers and
seamen should think fit to accept of the offers
made to them ! The modern theory, and the
new-fashioned general principle, would not
onlyuiresafiricotmionp a srul cat
ins
eant,poronptohseitiognr,oubnudt
o‘froulcl
r:q
con-
sistency, its cocurrence ! If every man has a ng • h t to
employ his capital and his industry as he himself
thinks proper, and if it is not only unjust, but
superlatively unwise, ever to interfere with his
exercise of that right, surely every man has also
a right to sell his courage and his allegiance in
the best market. There is no greater folly
in permitting foreigners to employ our own
seamen to blow up our own ships, than in permit-
ting them to destroy our own industrious classes
by, inundating our own markets with their pro-
ducts, or by voluntarily putting them in posses-
sion of any description of advantages which we
now exclusively possess. Each species of folly
is equally indefensible on every principle of
sound legislation and common sense; and each
is as much the legitimate offspring as the other,
of that infatuating general principle which has
been set up as a modern idol within the walls
of Parliament. We are very much surprised
to see that such a man as Lord. LIVERPOOL,
in speaking of the Linen Bounties, has not
only deprecated the system of fostering an
artificial trade, but has gravely stated, that
*friatfaV.Or done should take place by
natiirarmeans !" This is really a puerility un-
worthy of his Lordship's enlightened mind, and
of a British Statesman of the nineteenth cen-
tury. It is as natural for the human mind to
employ what are called artificial means for effect-
ing its purposes, as it is natural for man to perform
the simplest functions of his physical organization.
It is natural for mankind to advance in science,
and in the knowledge of.combinations, the skilful
application of which to their concerns, and to
the purposes of government, though termed arti-
ficial, in mere distinction from the less com-
plicated and less skilful operations of preceding
periods of comparative ignorance, is not less
natural than the first rude attempts at the or-
ganization of society. It is, therefore, as na-
tural to foster industry, by protecting regula-
tions and encouraging bounties, as it is to protect
property by law, or to diffuse education, morals,
and religion, by means of salaried teachers and an
endowed priesthood. The supposed opposition
of artificial systems to nature is the mere cant of

shallow theorists, and particularly or that spuri
ous school in Political Economy from whom this,
amongst many other visionary speculations, has
proceeded.

The following is the extract from tile. adver-
tisement-of the Coarse Linen Manufacturers of
Cork, to which we alluded yesterday

At a numerous and respectable meeting of the Manufacturers
and Finishers of Coarse Linens, adapted to Foreign Export,
held at the Council Chamber of Cork, on the 4th day of
March, 1824, JULIUS BESNARD, Esq. in the Chair,
Resolved—That viewing with greatalarm the incalculable injury
which the Coarse Linen Manufacture of this County mustsustain,
by the contemplated reduction of bounty on all Linens under 7d.
per yard, We do immediately address our City and County
Representatives--calling upon them to unite in their Remon-
strances against a measure, so destructive in its consequences,
to the Linen Trade of this populous City and County.
Resolved—That the present rate of Bounties on Coarse
Linens, has greatly tended to promote their Manufacture in
this County, and has given within the last three years to this
City a Direct Foreign
from Great Britain. Trade, as well as an increased demand

Resolved—That diminishing in any degree the encourage_
meat which is now given on the export of Linens, must de-
prive us altogether of trade with Foreign Countries, and give to
alone now commands for us.
the Continent the supplying of those markets which the Bounty
Resolved—That this county, unequal to a competition with
the North in the finer fabrics, has directed its attention to the
manufacture of course linens, such as now come within the de-
scription, subject to a total reduction of bounty.
Resolved—That should Parliament, in its wisdom, determine
on any change in the present system of bounties, we hope to
be placed on at least equal advantages with the counties more
advancased in manufacture, which are only partially injured
by a measure that must tend to totally extinguish our infant
trade.

Resolved—That on a subject so deeply interesting to the
welfare of Ireland, we look with confidence for the co-operation
of all Irish Members of Parliament, and others interested in
the support of a domestic manufacture ; which, while it diffuses
employment through the land, contributes to the introduction
of moral habits and content amongst the people.

BARNSTAPLE ELECTION.
FIRST DAY, MARCH 6. SECOND DAY. TOTAL.
Mr. F. Hodgson - 121 - Si - 181

Mr. M. N4.n - 124
Mr. Alderman Atkins 109

- 29
- 6

- 153
- 115

3lk'ority for Mr. Hodgson, 28.

Mits. nnoNs.—The following letter confirms
the contradiction which we yesterday gave to the
many unfavourable reports which had been in-
serted respecting the health of this Lady, by
whom the Public have been too much and too
often delighted to be indifferent to her welfare :