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London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

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Great commercial clistreis prevails in Vienna. .A
Correspondent writing fr-;,„al that city says :—" The pub-
lic debt of AustriA Amounts to 600 millions of florins
(55,0003QQ.0.1) so that each inhabitant (the popnlatiOn
95; Alt.e country being 35 millions) pays 17i florin', whilst
in Prussia each pays bat girix dollars. in Bavaria, 12if.,
in Hanover IQ--V„. is Saxony 7f., and in Wurtemberg
911 Hanover
-A4skia. tile public dabs is increasing instead of
444:)4§4.71g ;, and to avoid a national bankruptcy the
tiancial. systwAllikm be modified, or changed. Her re-
v.etAm Ave A 55 millions of florins, and there are 950
co]fAvezAta possessing 500 fnillioas of florins capital. The
4,onopolicS CM the excessive number of functionaries cost
ii=o4o sums, to the State : and whilst the late fail-
ures slow a decit, a 30 millions of florins, the assets
amount to, wt. mo-third of that sum."
4, loner from Kirchberg of the 10th says, that taw
health of the ,Duke of Bourdeaux inspires I..;ia aßendants
with the greatest confident?‘ EP ;;;+4 ,1-,.i well, and there 1
is ng lt:L*li any 4!430f "inflammation.
A 4).f...g4ApAi.c despatch, received at Toulon on the 17th
bast., 4dered all the ships in that port. atuottmin t.,}
sixteen in number, to put to sea inmediake.ls,.. A rignour
prevailed that they were 444014 tke. eljast of SiAia
t 9 p;,4te pq lyviec4i9,l fav,en,r of q4O-11 Chtistina,
T e I,,r,ep,qh getveyncgetA 1;:iw Jost it 4 sons3s.
Tr 44 thrNirtit ?flaw is suNtring g*
>; in eon-
Witti4isil 0 tle disturbances occasioned by the census.
During the riot on Thursday lass: at Line, a young Awl
was run through the heart ‘yith it ,ep.

113113,0 elagaNZOld.
The Morning Herald, discussing the very ticklish ques-
tion of Tory loyalty, observes :—" Nothing is more cer-
tain than that the Conservative party in time lehigilewas
has manifested—out of Parliament, at home and abroad
--the most unbounded loyalty and attachment to her
Majesty ; and that domestic disaffection and Chartist
menaces, rebellion tampered with in Canada ; and the
seditious proposer of the repeal of the Union with Ireland,
upheld, abetted, entertained by her Majesty's Govern •
meat in London and its representatives in' tublin—have
been among the most remarkable of the Wliig manifests;:
tions of regard for the Royal person and authority."
This is a fine specimen of what the Times--a good judge
of the mendacious—calls " enormous lying." When and
where was it that the Tories evinced the " most un-
bounded loyalty and attachment to her Majesty ?" Was
it at Exeter Hall, when they compared her to the woman
Jezebel ? Was it at Canterbury, when they insulted her
in the most outrageous manner ? Was it in Parliament,
when from party, not patriotic motives, they thwarted
her wishes with respect to Prince Albert's income ? Was
it when the melancholy case of Lady Flora Hastings
was before the public ? Or was it when they attempted to
take advantage of her youth and inexperience, as respects
the Bed-chamber appointments ? If these were proofs
of Tory loyalty, then we grant that the Tories were
loyal to the back-bone ; but we demur to that sort of
loyalty which will not bear consideration,
We quote the following significant remarks from the
Chronicle Whatever Tory leaders or county majori-
ties may do, or strive to do, every prudent observer sees
what is eemiug, The elections have not silenced the
voice of truth, justice, and humanity. It rings yet louder
and louder throughout the land. The symptoms of in-
evitable change in the Corn-lawn may be abated within
the walle of the Ilonso of Commons, but they are as
visible everywhere else as the most obvious phenomena
of the heavens or the earth. It comes on with a force
like that of the laws of nature, against which it is useless
for parties to win victories. The people 'do object to
starve.' You cannot outvote their objection, or put it
down by a resolution, It will either outlast the land-
lords' Parliament, or It will prove too strong for the
landlords' Parliament. One or the other is as sure
as fate ; which is much more sure than any body can
be of what the new majority will do with its victory."
To attempt to check the current of public opinion that
is now setting strongly in, in favour of a Repeal of the
Corn-laws, is as redieulous as would be the attempt to
roll back the waters of Niagara. The tide must have
its way, and will assuredly sweep to destruction all who
strive to oppose, or divert its course. Least of all, is
Sir Robert Peel—the most undecided of statesmen=-ca-
pable of thwarting the public wishes on the subject of
the Corn-laws. The celebrated Mrs. Partington once
tried to stop the encroachments of the Atlantic with her
mop ; but even this was not a whit more Quixetic than
the efforts of the Tory faction to prevent the people
from having oheap bread,
The Times says :—" The baited Whigs, being resolved
to die as gamely and gallantly as possible, are reported
to have elaborated the address into a form, which, if
their craftiness be not thwarted by superior dexterity,
will impose the necessity of responding to it with one
continued negative from beginning to end. Fain
would they put the House of Commons into an
apparent attitude of complete hostility to the
Crown. Fain would they lay a train for a debate
which they might industriously and malignantly
misrepresent as a positive disrespect to the Sovereign.
Fain would they inveigle the representatives of the people
into an indecent wrangle with the Royal prerogative.
Fain would they strain their successful praetisings upon,
her Majesty's confidence into a perilous provocation
of her Majesty's susceptibilities of resentment. But,
unless we are grievously mistaken, their plot will be
balked with even more cleverness than they have
shown in hatching it. The details of their ad-
dress will, we trust, be never entered on." It is
to be inferred from the above, we presume, that
the great questions in which the people are now so
greatly interested, will not even be " entered on." The
Tories will put a veto on them, as things of no account.
They will check all discussion with lofty disdain. This
is indeed carrying matters with a high hand.

The Post endeavours to show that the Tories are
closely identified with the people in their political views,
observing—" The Conservative party is the slow growth
of nine years. It derives its strength from the gradual pro-
cess of nine years' public experience. The public have
found that they want steady, careful government, and that
it is more safe to have a Government composed of men
ho arc themselves intimately concerned in leading na-
tional interests than to have a Government dependent upon
disreputable schemers and agitators, whose whole lives
have been, and are likely to be (whether cut short by the
public executioner or not) continued scenes of popular
excitement, and public fraud, and desperate ad-
venture. The British public desire a Governnunt
whose power rests upon a respectable foundation,"
We should be glad to know upon what " respectable
foundation" the Tories stand. Is it on their principles ?
They have none. Is it on thir upright, undeviating
consistency ? Here their deficiency is equally glaring.
Is it on their known sympathies with the wants and
wishes of the people ? They have scarcely a sympathy
in common with them. Is it on their loyalty to a high-
minded and popular Queen ? Here, too, they have
shown themselves as wanting in tact as decency. In a
word, the Tories stand on no other foundation than that
of busy intrigue and corruption, aided by the working of
the Chandos clause. Let these be cut from under their
feet, and they would not exist a m-nith.

lIIONEY—T&IIDE—COMMERCE.
At Kirkaldy, in the beginning of last century, there
was little done in weaving linen cloth, ticks, &c. In
1736 the number of yards manufactured amounted to

178,000, or fully 100 miles. The quantity manufactured
in 1841 at Kirkaldy and three adjacent towns, is about
25,000,000 yards, or 14,000 miles.

The deliveries of tea last week were 434,7001b5., being
rather less than during the two preceding weeks.
On reference to the average prices of corn fofiE t y
years, from 1790 to 1839 inclusive, there were thirty-six
good seasons, and fourteen indifferent.

NAVAL AND IVITLITARY.
The fungus pits in Woolwich dock-yards, closed since
August, 1836, for the purpose of testing the virtue of
Sir W. Burnett's process for rendering wood,,cordage,
and woollen free from dry rot, have recently been ordered
by Government to be opened. The result is that the
wood is as clear and sound as when first deposited, and
the canvas and calico equally well preserved.
The ship Duke' of Reichstadt, a fine vessel of 400 tons
burden, has been consumed by fire in the Adriatic, on her
voyage to Venice. A seaman has lost his life; the rest
of the crew were saved by the jolly-boat. Before a
French vessA bore down upon her she had totally dis-
appeared. The loss is estimated at 6,000/.
The approximation of dress of the mates and masters
of the merchant service to that of the Royal Navy is
often a great source of inconvenience and trouble abroad,
and it is hoped some wider distinction will be made.
The Naval and Mlitary Gazette states that several
worthy officers, interested themselves in procuring the
pension of 1001. a year for the widow of the naval his-
torian James, but the success of the application is mainly
to be attributed to the zealous perseverance of Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Charles Adam.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, AuGu' 24.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 55 f Highest 56 1 Lowest ... ...... 44
Wind N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

DUBLIN, AUGUST 21.—A lucrative appoint-
ment has become vacant this day by the death of Max-
well Blacker, Esq., Chairman of the County Dublin, and
one of the Counsel to the Excise. The chairmanship
was worth about 1,2001. a year, and the other situation
about 5001. It is generally supposed that Mr. Monaghan,
late Counsel to the Castle, will be nominated to these
several appointments.
" The rains," says the ,Courrier Francais,
" have had the effect of pushinw vegetables in some in.
stances to a monstrous size. In the plain of St. Denis
onions have been gathered weighing a pound each, and
roots of beet. of 10Ib;. each, which will yield half a pound
of sugar."—We doubt these weights. •
A FORGER IN TUNIS._A letter from Tunis
gives the following account of the punishment for
forgery, in the sale of some property of a person
of some note, performing there similar functions to
those of a notary in Franco. Immediately after con-
viction of the offence, his right hand was cut off, rather
dexterously, and the wrist was dipped in boiling pitch
to check the bleeding. This being done, he was placed
upon an ass, with his face turned towards the tail, and
the severed hand suspended over his back, and paraded
through the streets of Tunis, after which he was taken
to his house, without having lost public consideration,
as, amongst the Mussulmans, • the infamy of the crime
do es not outlive the punishment.— Galigneni's ltiessenger

AGRaCULTIMAL.
An extensive farmer who cultivates nciarly 1,000 acres
in Essex states that the wheat in sheaf is beyond his
expectation, and has ripened with a fine yellow tint.
Full half of it is secured in fine order. The improved
weather will certainly make the crop above an average.
Barley and oats are heavy crops ; beans and peas great
crop, and potatoes very abundant,

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X..91.34.r
At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, three men
pleaded guilty to an assault on the police during the pro-
gress of a procession on Whit Monday, headed by Mr
O'Connell, and were sentenced to imprisonment 4.
month with hard labour.

For one

Another was tried and convicted of the same offence,
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard
labour. He had been previously convicted of cutting
and wounding a policeman, for which he had been impri-
soned twelve months.
A man named Thomas Williams was yesterday
charged, at Guildhall, with marrying three women.
This was a crime which, we should suppose, carried its
own punishment along witllibit.

SPORTZA.M.
In Ayr, the grouse are very smrce, and are supposed
to be diseased with the tepo-worm, making them so Iran
and weak as not to b worth spending shet upon. In
numfriesshiro the birds are equally miserable.
The Pehshire moors repprt well. The extent of
the. Mort may be judged of by the number of game-
boxes which hourly arilore from the Highlands. There
are at present fowl, coaches miming daily to the north,
and each haa iwt.en well-loaded daily.
tqop4ous salmon was caught at Girvan a few days
w'9, measuring three feet seven inches in length, and I
weighing thirty-six pounds.

ELECTIONZZZLIWG.
A. meeting of influential Reformers took place on
Saturday at the Parli4mentary Agency-offices in Parlia-
ment-street, to the steps towards forming a Central
Refer eft ;AO Registration Society of England. A Corn-
Atittee was formed to carry <let their purposes.

TUICILTIZXCILL.
Mrs. Waylett twig lier benefit last night at the Eng_
lish Opetit: The House was Crowded.

COUNLT-rasnzoBTABZES.
The Duke of Bedford arrived in Belgrave-square yes-
terday, from Sussex,
Miss Burdett °atlas arrived in town on Saturday,
from Brighton.
The Earl of Macclesfield still continues in a very pre-
carious state. lie is wholly deprived of the use of
one side.

1 lIIISCELLANEOUS.
Weyman, convicted of the murder of Mr. Fisher, at
Tockington, and whom we stated on Saturday had been
respited, will be transported for life.
The wild heresy of the Mormonites is said .to have
penetrated every State from the Maine to the Missouri,
as well as the Candelas, organizing churches. and confe-
rences in every region, and gathering in its progress
from 50,000 to 100,000 disciples.
The Nassau balloon ascended yesterday afternoon at
7 o'clock with Mrs. Green and several gentlemen. The
trip lasted fir 35 minutes, and a safe and pleasant descent
was effected in the East Ham marshes.
A subscription is in progress at Cults, to erect some
monumental memorial to Sir David Wilkie in tha
parish, of which his father was many years minister.
The great vine at Hampton Court presents this year n.
splendid display of grapes. It was planted in 1525.
To-morrow will be the anniversary of the death o
Chatterton in 1770, of the historian Hoene in 1776, and
of Watt in 1819'

The pay-serjeant of the 60th Rifles shot himself on
Monday, in his quarters at Dublin barracks. Re had
fallen in love with a young lady in one of the Squares,
who returned his passion ; but the officers interfered,
and the man became desperate. The young lady has
since gone distracted.

The first regular Parliament was under King John in
1204. • "In 1694 an Act was passed for making Parlia-
ments triennial, which was repealed in 1716.
A few days ago while a man was digging in the
garden of the Rev. John Brown, Vicar of St. Mary's,
Leicester, he picked up a p;ece of copper money, on
which was inscribed •' John Brown's halfpenny, 1669."
So favourable a season as the present has not been
witnessed in the Isle of Sky for many years..

XLIMOURS OF THE DAT.
A Tory Contemporary states that nine new Baronets
are to be created, and that among them is Mr. Easthope
M.P. for Leicester.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUG. 24.—Wind this day at noon N.W.
DEAL, AUG. 23.—Arrived from the River the Agnes
for Sydney, New South Wales ; Lord Goderich and
Gilmour fur Quebec. Barque, 3,402, 2d distinguishing
pendant, Westward. Sailed the Ceylon, Jamaica; Julia,
R. Gambia, and several others.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 23.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Pandora, Cothay, from Ceylon, sailed 17th April ;
Thomas Lee, Barbadoes ; Sarah' Jane Maitland, Ja-
maica ; Trrian, Jackson, and Peruvian, Smith,
New Orleans ; Canton, Quebec ; Silksworth,
Meldrum, and George Toby, Montreal ; Pandora,
Pictou; Mary Isabella, Miramichi; Minerva, Sydney,
Cape Breton ; New York, Charleston ; Etelvina, Porto
Rico ; Bride of Abydos, Smyrna. Sailed the Ebenezer,
Malaga; Commodore, Batavia. Arrived off the Mars,
Calcutta; Isobel, Antigua; Republic, Virginia ; Parsee
Merchant, Quebec; Peruvian, Africa. The Elizabeth
from Quebec has not arrived as reported.
STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 22.—Arrived the Patriot,
from Alexandria ; Sally, Ancona.
DOVER, AUG. 23.—Arrived the Maria, from Swan
River, sailed 7th March ; Elizabeth, Jansen, Hamburgh,
for Singapore ; Mary Stewart, do., for Batavia ; Maria,
Bankes, Batavia, sailed 19th April ; Delta, Dordrecht,
for Batavia ; Delft, Rotterdam, for do. ; Neva steamer,
Havre, towed in with loss of rudder.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 23.—Arrived the Granger, from
Qiiebec. Arrived off, the Broxburnebury, Burnett, Cal-
cutta, she experierced a heavy gale at W. from the 3d to
6th May, between the equator and lat. 5 S., lon. 87 E.
FALMOUTH,- AUG. 22.—Wind S. to W.S.W., strong
breezes.—Arrived the Jeune Justice, from Marams ;
Tagui (steamer), Lothton, for Vigo. Sailed the Desire,
to London.
MILFORD, AUG. 22.—Arrived the Lord Oakley, Crow,
f:om Quebec.
Coax, A uo. 21.—Arrived the Matthew ream
Braithwait, from Porto Rico • Rosetta, do. ; Arrow,
Gibraltar; Marquis, England, Leghorn. Sailed the Pont
Aelii, St. John's, New Brunswick; Louisa, Dawes, Quebec.
Coax, AUG. 21.—The wizen-mast of a very large
ship, apparently broken off just above the deck, was
passed in lat. 30. long. 40, by the Matthew Pearce,
vrrived here. The Gossipium is bound to Liverpool,
not Quebec, as reported.
BIDEFORD, Am 21.—The Napoleon, from, Swansea
to London, has been brought in here in a sinking state.
Sailed the Bellona, for Miramichi.
HULL, AUG. 22.—Sailed the Delaware, for New York;
Wonley, Lyra, and Lord Wenloch, St. John's, New
Brunswick.

MEETING OF MINISTERIAL MEM,
BEES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

SPEECH OF LORD J. RUSSELL.
In pursuance of a summons from Lord John
Russell, a meeting took place yester6,ay, for the
purpose of hearing from his Lordship :An explanation
of the course which Ministers intend to pursue.
The meeting was a very numerous one;. It included,
with scarcely, an exception, every Member belonging to
the Ministerial side of the House of Commons now in
London.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Zenobia, Owen, from Bengal, in the Downs,
sailed April 8, St Helena July 5 ; Martin Luther,
Swan, from Singapore, off Dartmouth, sailed March 25,
St. Helena, June 30.
Arrivals at St. Helena—Panurge, July 3, Sabine, and
Memnon, all from Bourbon ; Lancaster, Jefferson, from
Bombay, and sailed the sth, to Liverpool ; Arab,
Hedges, 3d, from Bombay, for London ; Henry Tanner,
Bissett; 4th, from Bengal, and sailed sth, to London.
Departures from St. Helena—Johanna Maria, July 3,
Walvisets, Koning der Nederlanden, Olivier van Noordt,
and Jonge Adriana, all for Holland ; Eugene, for Bos-
ton ; Apprentice, 4th, to Rio Janeiro.
Vessels spoken with by the Zenobia, arrived in
' the Downs :-15th April, lat. 12 46 N., lon. 90 E.
Henry Davidson, M`Donnell, and Glen Huntly, both
from Calcutta to London ; May 10, lat. 9 31 S., lon.
90 45 E., Champion, Bombay to Liverpool ; May 11,
lat. 11 10 S., lon. 91 E., Niagara, Calcutta to London ;
May 14, .lat. 13 18 S., lon. 89 27 E., Broxborneburg,
Burnett, Calcutta to London ; June 18, lat. 35 22 S.,
lon. 24 30 E., Lord Lowther, Pattenson, Calcutta to
London, on the night 13th June, in a very heavy gale,
lost her foretopmast and main and mizen top-gallant
masts, bound into Simon's Bay; June 19, lat. 35 34 S.,
lon. 22 8 E., Argyleshire, Calcutta to London ; June 22,
tat. 35 14 S., lon. 18 38 E., Dutch bark Rabenhanft, No.
426, of Groningen, from Batavia, going into the Cope,
out sixty days ; July 19, hat. 754 N. lon. 22 9 W.,
Dutch ship Isis'• bound to Batavia; July 22, lat. 11 23 N.,
lon. 24 1 W., Schooner Spartan, of and from Water-
ford, to Mauritius, out twenty-two days ; Aug. 13, lat.
42 7 N., lon. 28 11 W., English brig Alert, bound to
the westward.

His Lordship addressed the meeting to the following
effect :

It was usual, he said, in the Speech from the Throne,
on the opening of a session of Parliament, to avoid
as much as possible any topics of an irritating
nature, or which might be calculated to produce
differences of opinion. But he thought it is duty
to inform them that, in consideration of the
peculiar circumstances connected with the present
meeting of Parliament, it was the intention of her Ma-
jesty's Government on this occasion to deviate from the
usual course, and to introduce into the Royal Speech such
topics as would completely develop the policy they had
determined to pursue, and as must inevitably lead to a full
discussion of that policy. From this discussion he and his
colleagues in the Government were determined not
to shrink, and the Speech had been so framed as to
afford every Member an opportunity of expressing
his sentiments upon their policy, and the House
an opportunity of recording its opinion. The
Speech would contain the usual topics, in ad-
vertisg to which her Majesty's Government would,
he was happy to say, be enabled to refer with satis-
faction to many parts of their policy. With respect
to those parts of it which wets° most likely to occasion
differences of opinion the decision of the House of
Commons would be taken, and when the 'opinion of
the House of Commons should have been expressed,
in the event, which he anticipated, of its being an
adverse opinion, he and his colleagues felt that it
would be unconstitutional for them to remain any
longer in office. He did not conceal his belief that
an amendment to the Address would be moved and
carricd by a considerable majority. But while 110
expressed his persuasion that Lis would be the last
occasion on which they would meet as a party in
possession of the Government of the country, he
could not refrain from expressing, at the same time, his
conviction that the political principles which united them
were wise and just, and his confidence that, in whatever
hands the Government might be placed, they must uli.
mately prevail.

This speech was of course loudly applauded, and the
meeting separated without discussion.-MorningPost..

A fine picture by Rubens, from the Royal col-
lection at Munich, was sent some time since to a porce-
lain manufactory at that
place to be copied. It Was be-
lieved to have been stolen from thence, and had certainly
disappeared. The police, however, made a strict search,
and found that one of the persons connected with the
establishment had taken it out of the frame, and secreted
it under the floor of a garret in the building.
nately the picture was uninjured, and the thief has been Fortu-
sent to prison.

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" Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" We are commanded by her Majesty to
acquaint you that her Majesty has availed her-
self of the earliest opportunity of resorting to
your advice and assistance after the dissolution
of the last Parliament.
" Her Majesty continues to receive from
Foreign Powers gratifying assurances of their
desire to maintain with her Majesty the most
friendy relations.
" Her Majesty has the satisfaction of in-
forming yon, that the objects, for which the
Treaty of the 15th of July 1840, was con-
cluded between her Majesty, the Emperor of
Austria, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of
Russia, and the Sultan, have been fully
accomplished, and it is gratifying to her Majesty
to be enabled to state, that the temporary sepa-
ration which the measures taken in the execu-
tion of that Treaty created between the con-
tracting parties and France, has now ceased.
" Her Majesty trusts that the union of the
principal Powers upon all matters affecting the
great interests of Europe will afford a firm se-
curity for the maintenance of peace.
" Her Majesty is glad to be able to inform
you that, in consequence of the evacuation of
Gliorian by the Persian troops, her Majesty has
ordered her Minister to the Court of Persia to
return to Teheran.
" Her Majesty regrets that the negotiations
between her Plenipotentiaries in China and the
Chinese Government have not yet been brought
to a satisfactory conclusion, and that it has been
necessary to call into action the forces which her
Majesty has sent to the China seas; but her Ma-
jesty still trusts that the Emperor of China ivill
see the justice of the demands which her Maes-
ty's Plenipotentiaries have been instructed to
make.

" Her Majesty is happy to inform you, that
the differences which had arisen between Spain
and Portugal, about the execution ofa treaty con-
cluded by those Powers in 1835, tbr regulating the
navigation of the Douro, have been adjusted
amicably, and with honour to both parties, by
the aid of her Majesty's mediation.
" The debt incurred by the Legislature of
Upper Canada, for the purposes of Public
Works, is a serious obstacle to fiirther improve-
ments which are essential to the prosperity of the
United Province. Her Majesty has authorized
tile Governor-General to make a communication
on the subject to the Council and Assembly of
Canada.- Her Majesty will direct the Papers to
be laid before you, and trusts that your
earnest attention will be directed to matters so
materially affecting the welfare of Canada and
the strength of the Empire.
" GENTLEMEN- OP THE HOUSE OF COMMONS—
"We have to assure you that her Majesty
relies with entire confidence on your loyalty and
zeal to make adequate provision for the public
service, as well as for the further application of
sluts granted by the last Parliament."

"My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,--.
"We are more especially commanded to
declare to you the extraordinary expenses
which the events in Canada, China, and
the Mediterranean have occasioned, and the
necessity of maintaining a force adequate to the
the protection of our extensive possessions, have
made it necessary to consider the means of increas-
ing the public revenue. Her Majesty is anxious.
that this object should be effected in the manner
least burthensome to her People, and it has
appeared to her Majesty, after full deliberation,
that you may at this juncture properly direct
your attention to the revision of duties affecting
the productions of foreign countries. It
will be for you to consider whether some of

these duties are not so trifling in amount as to be
unproductive to the Revenue, while they are vex-
atious to commerce. You may further examine
whether the principle of protection, upon which
others of these duties are founded, be not carried
to an extent injurious alike to the income of
the State, and the interests of the people.
" Her Majesty is desirous that you should
consider the laws which regulate the trade in
Corn. be for you to determine whether
these laws do not aggravate the natural fluc-
tuations of Supply, whether they do not embar-
rass Trade, derange Currency, and, by their ope-
ration, diminish the comfort and increase the-pri-
vations of the great body of the community.
" Her Majesty feeling the deepest sympathy
with those of her subjects, who are now suffering
from distress and want of employment, it is her
earnest prayer that all your deliberations may
be guided by wisdom, and may conduce to the
happiness of her beloved people."