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London, England, 1832-02-01 00:00:00

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Genoa 05 70
Venice 475
Malta 46
Naples 4O
Palermo per oz. 119
Lisbon
Oporto 4B
Rio .Taneiro
Bahia ,__
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' sight l%
Cork 1

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X. R. d.
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'dew Dollars
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CONTRACT FOR WHEAT, PEASE, BUTTER,
CHEESE, WINE, AND RAISINS.
VICTUALLING OFFICE, FEE. 1, 1832.

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THE Commissioners for Victualling his
Illajes'y's Navy, &c., do hereby give notice that on
THURSDAY, the 9th inst. they will be ready to receive
Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply
of the following Articles, to he delivered into his Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz.
Period of
------ delivery.
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WHEAT, RED 2,000 Quarters 1
WHEAT, WHITE l,OOO Quarters ' One-half of
(weighing 601 b. to the Bushel) each by the
PEASE 5OO Quarters 25th inst.,
BUTTER 8 Tons and the re-
CHEESE l2 Tons mainder by
RAISINS 2O Tons the lOth day
WINE, SPANISH RED 10,000 Gallons of March
WINE. MARSALA WHITE,/ next.
not less than five years old 5,00 J Galloni
Samples of the Wheat, Pease, Raisins, and of each de-
scription of Wine, of two Bottles each, must be produced
by the party tending.
The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this
Office.

Articles.

Each Tender must specify the price in words at length,
and he delivered before One o'clock on the day appointed ;
and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person
on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for.
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The MONTHLY PART for JANUARY, being the
FIRST PART for 1832, is THIS DAY published. It
e^ ...sins Reviews of, with copious extracts from, 'all
New Books published dsring the month—Reports of Pro-
ceedings, and of Papers read at the Learned Societies—
Notices of all Novelties at the Thew
Exhibitions, &c. &c , and of all things
informed and intelligent—with

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ORIGINAL -POEMS AND P.
Allan Cunningham Edw. Herbert, of the
T. Carlyle Old London Mag.
The Author of the Thos. Hood
`Corn Law Rhymes' I'. K. Hervey
Rev. Hobart Caunter Miss Jewsbury
Charles Dance J.
The Author of ' The W. J.
Dominie's Legacy' The Author of' Lon-
ThcEttriek Shepherd don in the Olden
James Everett Time'

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The late W. Roscoe
Thos. Roscoe
Rev. H. Stebbing
W. C. Taylor
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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1832

It is just as we stated yesterday. The Con-
ference of .the Five Powers met last night to
exchange the long promised, yet purposely de-
layed ratifications of the Belgian treaty—when
the representatives of France and England,
acting in good faith, performed their duty
by exchanging their respective ratifications
with the Belgian Minister. Not so the re-
presentatives of Russia, Austria, and Prus-
sia, simply because their ratifications had not
arrived. Whether these illustrious personages
really expected that they would arrive in the
course of the night we cannot say, but they re-
mained at the Foreign-office in such belief
until half-past three o'clock this morning !
Lord PALMERSTON did not leave till past
four. In order to afford the non-ratifying
Powers the utmost latitude, we understand
the protocol is to be kept open for their con-
venience. It is said the ratifications are hourly
expected. We sincerely hope they may come
but, as we have all along expressed our serious
doubts of the good faith of the Northern
Powers in this business, we must withhold our
belief till the ratifications are actually exchanged,
not only as regards Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
but Holland also. The game of juggling and
political expediency has been carried so far by
these parties, that we cannot help suspecting
them, even when they mean honestly.
If the Northern Powers really mean to ratify,
have they not already had ample time—and en-
largement of time ? If they do not mean to
ratify the treaty without modification, is it acting
just towards Belgium, who has been compelled to
accept the terms therein contained ? Suppose
the treaty be greatly altered, in order to please
Rolland, and that Belgium dissents, as in jus-
tice she will and ought, they will then have to
go over another year of protoeolling, and to
What, purpose ?—ultimately a breaking up of
the present hollow compact. The result is this,
that Poland has been sacrificed to Russia, who
now insists that Belgium should be sacrificed to
Holland ! This has been all along the secret
motive for protocolling and delaying the ratifi-
cations—and unless the Northern Powers be
deterred from their purpose by the firmness and
unanimity of France and England, they will carry
their iniquitous plans into effect.

The House of Commons met last night, but
there was no Committee on the Reform Bill. Mr.
IERCEVAL could find time to bring about a
dull discussion on the subject of breach of privi-
lege, growing out of his late absurd motion for
a general fast, and Colonel DAVIES to prose
about the glove trade, of which we Jo not
dery the importance, contending only that
it i 8 unimportant when compared with Reform,
a question which, when once fairly settled, will be
the means of setting right all other 'matters—

these two minor points were abundantly dis-
cussed last night—but not a word, except of
disappointment, about the Reform Bill. This
delay however is to be repaired by the sittings
of to-night, when, we trust, the Bill will
make a vigorous progress. Ministers should
strain every nerve to press it forward, there
should not be an instant's halting allowed,
they should debate it night after night
for six days in the week, or they may live to
rue their supineness. Promptitude and energy
—energy and promptitude ; it is to these two
invaluable qualifications that Ministers must now
look for success.

We regret to hear that, in consequence of ill
health, that most efficient public officer and true
Reformer, C. TENNYsoN, Esq., has resigned his
duties at the Ordnance Board. We trust, however,
that the country will not be long deprived of his
valuable services—for, in or out of place, no
one has the interests of the people more at
heart than Mr. TENNYSON, a man who is not
more beloved in the domestic circle than ho-
noured and respected by the public at large, for
his truly constitutional principles and manly in-
dependence of character.

Sir JOHN CANI HOBHOUSE is appointed
Secretary at War.

It is said that Mr. KENNEDY will for the
present go to the Ordnance-office.

The following are extracts from Brussels and
German Papers :

BRUSSELS, JAN. 28.—A motion of M. Dumortier to fix the
civil debt at 1,200,000 florins is to be laid before the sections to.
day for examination.

M. Van Meenen and other learned lawyers have been for
some time engaged in revising the law on the trial by jury.
They intend shortly to introduce a project of law to the Chamber.
General Niellon left this city yesterday for Ghent.

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An Austrian Cabinet messenger arrived here yesterday even.
ing with despatches from Vienna, and an hour after his arrival
set out for London.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives yesterday, a
credit of 2,300,000 florins was granted to the Minister of War,
for the expences of his department during the month of Fe-
bruary. Numerous petitions were presented or reported on.
Among them was one complaining of the introduction of French
Jesuits into Belgium as a body of instructors of youth, contrary
to Article 6 of the Constitution. The petitioner alleges that Bel-
gians alone ought to be admitted to civil functions. Nobody
can deny the establishment of Jesuits at Namur; if measures
are not taken against the cholera of Jesuitism, it will spread all
over Belgium.

The Committee proposed, and the Chamber adopted, the
Order of the Day, on the ground that, by the Constitution,
public instruction is free.
THE CHOLERA IN AUSTRIA.

At Prague the disease still rages : from the 14th to the 16th,
at noon, there were 11:2 new cases, 58 recoveries, and 33 deaths;
and there remained 260 patients in the hospitals.
In the city of Brunn there were no new cases on the 13th ;
but the disorder had manifested itself in several more Moravian
villages. Gallicia is now nearly free. Up to the 31st of De-
cember, 1831, the total amount in Gallicia, including the city of
Lemberg and the troops, was—

Cases. Recoveries. Deaths.
260,044 162,9.73 97,770
So that only one patient remained.—ln the city of Vienna
there was no new case in the last three weeks : now and then a
case in the suburbs, where, on the 18th of January, there re-
mained two patients. Total since the commencement in
eighteen weeks :

Cases.
City l,lOl
Suburbs 3,000

Recoveries.
690
1,451

Deaths.

411
- ..., 1,547

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE,
DAILY REPO

, WHITEIIALL.—(THIS DAY)
,RT of CHOLERA CASES.

74, . " .
Places. 'vti ,;,.„) u , g
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c;
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Jan.
Sunderland
Newcastle 3O 44 5 4 10 35 :8.38 254
Gateshead
North Shields ana
Tmernouth
loath Shields and I
Hepburn Colliery 3O 0 1 1 0 0 8 4
Newburn
Elsewick and Ben-
well, &c 3O 7 2 0 5 4 I 41 8
Iletton, &c. 3O 36 6 1 8 33 333 70
Haddiegton and vi-
cinity, N.B. 29 10 5 8 0 7 72 as
Tranent, N.B. 29 36 10 3 5 33 97 37
Preston Pans 29 15 5 0 0 20 34 6
North Berwick, N.B 23 3 1 0 0 4 7 3
Musselburgh, N.B 29 155 91 4 8 52 164 65
Edinburgh, N.B 29 3 0I 0 0 3 5 2
Total .. . ... ...I 1265 57 126 46 1250 13013 961

Total ... I
Totals Prom places wi
and from which no
received

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been

;rand

13247

N.B. No report has been received from Kirkintilloch.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

LANCASTER ASSIZES.—We understand that
the assizes for this county will commence on Saturday, the
3d of March. The calendar is mere than usually heavy,
containing nearly eighty prisoners, some for cringes of
great enormity.—Liverpool
The frigate La Vestale, Captain DUCA MP ER,
arrived at Brest on the 25th January, from Brazil. This
vessel brings to the amount of about 2,000,000 of francs

n specie, and gold and silver bars, belonging to French
merchants.—Messager des Chambres.
The Prefect of the Seine, considering that the
Place de Greve would not be a fit place of execution, since
it was there that the blood of our citizens was so gloriously
shed for the liberty and the laws, has just issued an ordon
nance stating that, in future, capital punishments shall only
be executed upon the spot which forms the extremity of the
Faubourg St. Jacques.—Paris Paper.
ENGLISH IDEAS OF AIORALITY.—BISHOP,
whose cold and systematized atrocities checked, by a
deeper excitern,nt, the excitement of Reform, and he-
num,,ed, with a more curdling fear, the floating appre-
hensions of the cholera rnorbus ; Brsnor, we are told
very seriously by the journals, after undergoing a certain
ceremony, " felt greatly relieved, and enjoyed a sound
sleep." What was this mystical ceremony, that thus lulled
into peace the conscience-stricken murderer?--merely the
confessing that he had committed the murder ! A mighty
atonement this for the action ! In truth this cant about
the blessing of a confession does more harm than the
superficial perceive; if a man is et be represented as pur-
chasing mental peace, after committing the most horrible
of human crimes, by saying, the night before his execu-
tion, " I will tell your Reverence—it's all very true, I
made the boy drunk with runt, and then kept his head
under water till he was fit for selling, and I then sold
him, Sir, for twelve guineas ; and now I feel mightily
eased in my mind, and am going to h eve a pleasant nap ;"
if this is to be the moral of Burking, and confessing to
have Burked—why, then, all I say is, that you rob re-
ligion of those terrors which you assert to be checks upon
crime ; and you virtually make murder a less offence is a
convict than his not satisfying the curiosity of the news-
mongers, in quitting his own life without telling us how
he got rid of another's. The fact is, that we pick up,
as soon as we are able to remember what we hear, a
few common-place maxims, and we call them morals.
Whoever the most insists upon these we call a moralist--
that is to say, when Doctor JOHNSON declares in pomp.
ous sentences that we ought not to tells fibs, nor be
proud, nor despise the homeliness of v;rtue, nor be at-
tracted by the gaudiness of vice, we exclaim, " Ah, the
fine moralist !—the admirable teacher !" But when a
contemporary writer struck at once at the root of far
wider evils than individual and private errors can ac-
complish—when he satirized military glory, and became
the first who seriously invoked mankind to consider war
as the darkest calamity that can visit the earth—we were
dumb in our plaudits—we saw no morality in the
maxim—we heard no music in the truth. We could
understand the depth of that morality which said to
Mr. Illactrts, " Be content with your station—envy not
your betters ;" but the morality that, in the great spirit
of Christianity, said to all Earth, " Live in peace," was I
nterly beyond our comprehension,..-Neto Monthly Itfav,