The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-27 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

A poor creature, almost starved to death, named
Barbara huggin, with an infant at her breast, and
three small children without shoes or stockings,
and scarcely sufficient clothing to cover their naked-
ness, were brought before Mr. GREGORIE by a
policeman, who said that about two o'clock in the
morning he found the woman and her children lying
on the pavement in Hemming's-row, St. Martin's-
lane. She told him that she had no home, and he
took her to the station-house.
In answer to several questions, the unfortunate
woman said that her husband had deserted her, and
she was quite destitute—that both herself and
children were nearly starved. She had applied to
the Overseers of the parish for relief, and they gave
her a loaf and a piece of cheese ; but she had no
where to lay her head. The child at her breast was
very ill, and she wanted to be passed to her own
parish in Cumberland, but the Overseers would not
pass her.
Mr. GREGORIE said he would send her to the
House of Correction for 14 days, and the children
should be taken care of at the workhouse. At the
end of that time the children would be given up to
her, and then the visiting Magistrates of the prison
would pass her to her parish. The child in her arms
she might take with her to the prison.
The unfortunate woman said that they had not
tasted food for some time, and begged that her
children might have something to ear, which the
Magistrate immediately ordered.

On Saturday,
W OR SHIP- STREET.
IVnz. Frost and Richard Sheldrick
were finally examined upon the charge preferred
against them by Messrs. Lloyd and Hoskins, the
wine-merchants; and the depositions having been
completed,

Mr. TwYFottp committed them to Newgate for
trial, for stealing two bottles of wine and a bottle of
brandy, which they took by force from the servant

were patriotic—such as " To France, such as
she promised to be in the days of July ''—‘‘ To
the tri-coloured flag, the glorious standard of
liberty "—" The enfranchisement of all nations"
—" To the unity of Germany "—" To Poland
and the Poles "—and, finally, " To the patriotic
Deputies of the department of the Upper and
Lower Rhine."

M. Odillon Barrot replied—My heart is too
{nil of delicious emotions to allow me to express
myself with entire ease of mind, and you there-
fore will pardon the incorrectness of my lan-
guage. You chose me to represent you when I
was very young, and almost unknown to political
life, when there were many other citizens who
had more claims on your confidence. You im-
posed on me an immense responsibility. After
regretting the absence of M. Lafayette, M.
Voyer d'Argenson, and M. Muntz, he pro-
ceeded :—When our tri-coloured flag was again
raised in July 1830, it excited not only in our
own country, but in all Europe, generous senti-
ments, hopes of emancipation and ameliorations ;
but now does it not form, with the system of
March 13th, a complete political contradiction ?
Is is a silent accuser of that system, and they can-
not both live long together. I demand with you,
and with all the power of conviction, the emanci-
pation of the communes. We have hitherto oc-
cupied ourselves too much with the forms of the
edifice, let us now think of laying the foundations.
We proclaitn ourselves the most free people on the
face of the earth—the people are the Sovereign.
Here public opinion governs, and yet we cannot
distribute our alms, employ our local rates, even
mend the pavement of our streets, unless by the
consent of I know not what officials, who may
exercise arbitrary power with impunity, for they
are irresponsible and inaccessible. It belongs to
this city, of which the municipal traditions form
in some measure the history, to demand our
emancipation with energy. Let us not fear to
avow our sympathy for the people who, less
happy than we, have fallen in the contest. Our
liberty is not egotism, for it is not founded on
privileges, but on the principles of universal
justice. Why did our Government, after hav-
mg pledged the national honour in the face o
Europe, that the Polish nationality should not
perish—why did it consent to those ukases which
destroy even the last traces of their nationality ?
When the question between civilization and bar-
barism was discussed in Poland, it said, it is too
far, it does not concern us. Now it is discussed
in Germany, on the other side of the Rhine, at
the very doors of this city, and our Ministers,
by their usual organs, tell us that this does not
concern us. France, thank God, is not of the

hlcv price of 2d. per lb. The take seems to be great over
•he whole kingdom, and it would be difficult to name a
•eison in modern times in which the Pith, the Dee, the
Annan, the Cree, and the Bladenoch, yielded a larger tri.
bute of fins.

An English squadron passed Falmouth on
Wednesday evening; it consisted of one line-of-I).lWe
ship, two frigates, three sloops of war, and one brig, sup-
posed to he from Irelan.l._

AN ENORMOUS GOOSEBERRY.—A goose-
berry, of the species named the " Roaring Lion," measur-
ing bi inches in circumference, and weighing 26 penny-
weights, was this year grown in a garden belonging to
Mr. CowN FAIR, near Seaham harbour.—Sunderland
herald.

SUNDAY HIRING.—We are glad to perceive

that the farmers have in many places seen the impropriety
)1 this demoralizing practice. The people of Burton-in-
K-ndal, and the surrounding district, have signified their

intention that there shall be-no more hiring-there on a
Sunday, but that the farmers will meet the reapers at the
irket-cross, in Burton, early on a Monday morning
luring harvest.— Westmorland Gazette.

CURIOUS CUSTOM.—It will be seen by the
'ollowing extract from the Gentleman's Magazine, that
the ladies of the East hive secured to themselves a privilege
a a'ogous to that said to be possessed by our own fair coun-
trywomen in leap year :—ln Persia a feast was held in Fe-
quary dedicated to the angel Isfendarmuz, who was
esteemed the ostensible guardian of the fair sex ; and on
this occasion they enjoyed some very singular privileges.
The Persian ladies on this day were invested with almost
.bsoltite power. The husbands complied to the utmost
of their ability with all the commands of their wives; and
th virgins, without offence to delicrcy, might pay their
addresses to whom they pleased ; and they seldom sued in
vain. Numberless marriages were, in consequence, solem-
nized, and many engagements made, the angel being sup-
posed to shed remarkable favour, not only on the nuptials
'ben celebrated, but on all the contracts entered into dur-
ing this gay festival.

CLAUDINE POTOCKA, sprung from one of
the oldest and noblest houses of Poland, that of the Counts
DuALYttzics, married at 16 into another, that of the
Counts Pozocxt, and had lived six years of wedded h ,p-
-piness, when, in November, 1830, Poland rose against
Russia. Count POTOCKI instantly left his quiet home in
tl.e Grand Duchy of Posen, and flew to Warsaw to share
the dangers of his countrymen. His wife followed, not,
like some of her fair compatriots, to battle in the Polish
ranks, but to devote her blooming youth to the service of
the hospitals, where, for seven months, she consecrated
herself, wholly and unremittingly, to attendance upon the
wounded, and upon the victims of the cholera. When
Warsaw surrendered, she accompanied the army to Modhn,
sod, upon the retreat, resigned the single truss of straw
procured for her own bed, to a sick officer destitute of
even such wretched accommodation. When all was over
she made use of the passport granted her in consideration
if her sex, to rescue those most implicated, most hopeless
of escape, by passing them as her servants; and, when
danger threatened the party, she pledged her person and
iroperty to the Prussian Government for their conduct.
The Countess PoTocKA is now living at Dresden, wher
we understand, the residue of her fortune, her trinkets,
her personal attentions, and even the produce of her
ma-
nual labour as a copyist, are still dedicated to the c fi-
iiiiogutihnecedoi distress rtehses same
of her work
exiled of
l'oreign Quarterly Review,

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Prom the Times.)
PARIS, SATURDAY, 4 o'clock p.m.

A Cabinet Connell, under the presidency of the
King, was held yesterday at the Tuileries, where it
is said that the proposition of deciding on the day
on which it was proper that the Chamber should
worn, was considered, and the 3d of October fixed
Upon, after a good deal of discussion. None of the
Ministers have, however, yet publicly said any thing in
confirmation of the rumour as to the day of open-
ing, and I think that the 3d of November is more
likely to be the real one. It has long been evident
that 'Ministers are not over desirous of facing the
Members of the Legislature, and nothing has recent-
ly occurred which would compel them tit do so at
an earlier period than usual.
The modifications which are to be made in the
Ministry, and the new Peerages, will, it is expected,
be announced in a few days. The former will con.
silt of the admission into the Cabinet of Messrs.
Dupin, lignon, and Thiers. M. Dupin is said to
have been prevailed upon to accept the Seals of tFe
Department of Justice, without the Presidency of
the Council, which, in case of this arrangement be-
ing carried into effect, will remain vacant. The
Members of the Ministry who will make room for
the new comers will probably be Messrs. Sebastian',
Girod de l'Ain, and Louis. The last-mentioned
Minister has been for some time desirous of retiring,
but the negotiation of the loan, and subsequently of
the wished-for M'nisterial arrangements, has hitherto
detained him in the Cabinet.

It is well known that the King feels great reluc-
tance to dispense with General St,bastiani's services,
as he is the deposita:y of certain diplomatic secrets
which it is not found convenient to intrust any one
else with at the present moment. The General has,
besides, made himself useful by a certain pliancy of
disposition which it is feared few others equally qua-
lified for the Foreign Department will be found to
possess. If his health, therefore, will at alrpermit
!rim to continue taking an active part in business, it
Di very likely he will not quit the Ministry. Should
he withdraw, M. Bignon will probably be his suc-
cessor. These changes, if they take place, will not
bring about the least alteration in the domestic and
foreign policy of the F. ench Cabine►, nor will they
extend the influence of the juste milieu party in the
representative Chamber. None but a thorough re-
newal of the Cabinet could lead to a change of sys-
tem. M. Dupin's name is still associated with fa-
vourable recollections, because his fame in liberalism
has not been in any way tarnished by a participa-
tion with those measures of the present Govern-
snent which have mostly contributed in impairing
its popularity. His well-known disapprobation of
the state-of-siege ordinance, too, had somewhat re-
vived the public confidence in his patriotism. If a
new Cabinet were formed under his auspices, no
doubt but the national confidence in the Government
would become much greater than it is at present.
But with the conditions of his assuming office,
which will necessarily make him subservient to the
views of others, instead of allowing his own to pre-
vail, he can hardly escape the fate of those who
have converted their professed liberalism under the
restoration, into a stepping-stone to power under the
present Government.
The number of creations to the Peerage will most
likely be not less than 40. Very few members of
the Representative Chamber will be transferred to
the upper one, because Ministers feel the necessity
of being supported by their friends in the former at
the approaching session. Two or three Deputies
only are spoken of as likely to be made Peers'.
Among them is M. Bertin de Vaux, the chief pro-
prietor and editor of the Journal des Debuts.
The tone and proceedings lately assumed by the
Swiss Diet have produced a remonstrance on the
part of Austria, and an explanation of the intentions
of that power with regard to Switzerland. An
cflicial note has been addressed to the Diet by M.
ne Bombelles, the Austrian Resident Minister, as-
suring it of his Government's friendly dispositions,
and recommending that the arming of the cantons
should not be continued. The President of the
Diet has very properly replied, that however satis-
factory the friendly assurances made in the name of
the Austrian Government, the cantons could not
discontinue the treasures adopted to maintain their
independence until their frontiers should be freed
of the presence of the large Austrian forces lately
collected there.

Two condemnations to death took place the day
before yesterday at the a-sizes, of the persons im-
plicated in the riots of the 6,11 of June. The Judges
seem to have decided with much greater severity
than had been anticipated by the Juries, as some
understanding- seems to have existed that no sen-
tence 01 death should be pronounced on any of the
convicted rioters. The public think that no politi-
cal offences should be punishable with death, after
Polignac and his colleagues have been spared ; and
so strong is this impression, that I can hardly think
the King will be advised to leave these two men
for ex major'. Z.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, AUG 25.-Five per Cents., 98f. 95c.
9911 99r. sc. 99f. 29f. sc. 10c. 99f. 92f. sc. 99t: 99f. 3c. ; Loan of
1931, 1001. 20c. ; Four per Cents., 83f., Three per Cents., 69f.
ti9f. sc. 10c. 2fc. 15c. 110 e. ; National Loan, 99f. 25c. ; Bank
Actions, 1,C60f. ; Rente de Naples, SOf. 90c. 81f. sc. 10c. ;
Roman Fiveper Cents., EzOli !.;, 80; 11.ente d'Espagne, 12 11N 12;
Royal Spanish Loan, 78 7734 78; Rente Perpctuelle d'Espagne,
57% z s ; Belgic Loan, 77 7714 1,4. Exchange on London-
One month, money, 2511 75c.; Three months, paper, 25f. 6.5 c.;
money, 2511 60c.--Cours Authentique.

Dublin has been entirely deserted by its No-
bility and Gentry in consequence of the raging of the cho-
lera. The Lord Lieutenant took two of his sons to Wales,
in the Vice-regal yacht, and on his return took up his re
sidence at the Lodge in the Park. There are no less than
200 poor deluded creatures on hoard a hulk in Kingstown
harbour, convicted at the different Sessions throughout
Ireland of opposing the administration of the laws.
A CHANCE FOR SPINSTERS.—A Corres-
pondent has sent us the following copy of an amusing
bland- bill, issued by a labourer, as an inducement to some
b uahing damsel, beyond a certain age, to take him " for
better, for worse :"—" A Bill for a Wife : Matrimony.—
CHARLES WARREN, Marnhull, Dorset. My f,mily is as
follows:—the eldest boy is 13 yeas old, the younger boy
5 years old, and a girl S years old. My home is my own,
and I have no rent to pay. I have an acre of potatoes,
half blurs and half whites, this year. My wife has been
dead 1 2 months ago, last Shroton fair : the children live
with themselves in the day-time, but I am always at home
with them at night. Ido think that it would be better if
there was a woman to look after them, both for the child-
ren and myself. I have got Ss. a-week for my work, and
the boy 2, a week, and have constant employ. I want a
good steady woman, between 30 and 10 years old, for a
wife. Ido not want a second family. I want a woman
to look after the pigs while lam out at work. July,
1832."—Dorset County Chronicle.

TORY CANVASSING IN BUCKS.—On Mon-
day morning, about 9 o'clock, the Marquis of CHANDOS
entered the quiet town of Newport Pagnell, on his regu-
hr canvass for the county of Buckingham, and was at-
tended by about 50 persons on horses, consisting princi-
pally of members of his troop of yeomanry. On the ca-
valcade reaching the Swan Inn, they drew up around the
Noble Magni, to hear him, and several of the Whig party
were there for the same purpose. When his Lordship
took off his hat to speak, there were slight symptoms of
disapprobation from one part of the crowd. Immediately
a captain in the Marquis's troop was heard to exclaim,
" If we are to have a row, it, let's :lave a good
one !" and in an instant he and some members of his
troop rode into the thickest part of the crowd (and which,
by-the-bye, was standing on the footpavement), and at-
tacked indiscriminately men, women, and children, with
the utmost fury. Much mischief must have resulted, but
for the timely interference of some respectable inhabitants
of the town, who rushed forward to remonstrate with
them, and to prevent the crowd from retaliating. We
mention these facts, for the twofold purpose of exhibiting
the disposition which prevails among the Tories for resort-
ing on all occasions to brute force, and to add one more
to the many proofs of the mischief which results from
mdintaining and paying so useless, and for all good pur-
poses, so inefficient a body as the yeomanry cavalry. We
regret to have observed a clergyman and a magistrate
amongst this disorderly set.—Times Correspondent.
POROSITY OF THE SKIN.—From microscopic
observations it has been computed that the skin is perfo-
rated by a thousand holes in a square inch. If the whole
surface of the human body be estimated at sixteen square
feet, it must contain no fewer than 2,304,000 pores.—
Glasyow Mechanics' Magazine,

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 27, 1832.

There appears to be no doubt among military
men in this country acquainted with Oporto, of
the practicability of Don PEDRO'S defending it
permanently against the power of the Usurper.
There are two sets of lines, the outer and the
inner, and for them from 10 to 12,000 men are
sufficient. The outer lines extend from about
Nlacarellos Church on the Douro towards the
sea, round by Villar, until they reach the river
to the east, a little above the Bishop's Quinta.
The inner lines comprise chiefly the city. We
may calculate PEDRO'S force at from 8,000 to
9,000 regular troops, and nearly 5,000 Na-
tional Guards. Besides these all persons of a
certain age are ordered to the lines,—they will
amount to nearly 14,000.

It is not generally known, perhaps, that the
French Government was ready to lend assistance
to the Portuguese Constitutionalists, to a much
greater extent than they have done, but that, by
an arrangement between Lord PALMERSTON
and General SEBASTIANI, the object of which,
on the part of the latter, appears to have been
to obtain a warmer degree of support than could
otherwise have been expected on the Belgian
question, it was agreed that the Portuguese
question should be left entirely in the hands of
England, but that France, if called upon by the
British Cabinet to assist in any plan for the
furtherance of the Constitutional cause, should
refuse her aid. In consequence of this arrange-
ment, no very efficient support has been given by
the French to Don PEDRO; but he has been
from time to time assured of the warm feeling in
his favour entertained by the French Cabinet,
and of its anxiety to see more done for the Con-
stitutional cause by our Government. The
Marquis of PALMELLA, in his interviews with
Lord PALMERSTON, did not fail to urge the
peculiar claim of Don PEDRO upon this country,
and to assert, that but for the courtesy of the
French Cabinet towards England, much more
would have been done by France for the Con-
stitutional cause. Although we regret to state
that the Marquis has not succeeded in his ap-
plications to Lord PALMERSTON, to the extent
desired, we have reason to know that he re-
tires' on the whole well satisfied with the result
of his mission.

We hear from a positive source, that unless
the health of General SEBASTIAN! should not
be improved very materially by his visit to the
country, lie will be expected to give in his resig-
nation, anciLarMinister of rather more. liberal

principles, as regards foreign policy, will be ap-
pointed. Whatever might have been the delu-
sion of the French Cabinet and the Sovereign,
previously to the infamous protocol of the Diet
of Frankfort, it has now been cleared away, and
it is felt that the only security for France is in
independence. The real object of the visit of
M. de FLAHAUT to this country was to impress
upon the minds of our Ministers the necessity of
a cordial alliance with France, and the mainte-
nance of a high tone towards the despots of the
continent. We trust he has been successful in
his mission ; for whatever difference of opinion
there may be as to the course which the French
Ministry have occasionally adopted, there can be
none amongst liberal-minded men as to the pro-
priety of giving warm and cordial support to
France, in every attempt to maintain her liberties
against the open and concealed attacks of the
Holy Alliance. In this there is but one inter-
est, as there might be but one principle, between
the two countries.

Count FLAHAUT; who came over on a
special mission from Paris, left town on Satur-
day, for Brighton, from which place he will em-
bark for Dieppe. Previously to his departure he
had a. long interview with the Marquis of FAL,
MELLA on the subject of Portugal.

We have received no news from Paris by the
Express of Saturday. The time for convoking
the Chambers, and the necessary modification in
the Ministry, now chiefly occupy the attention
of the Government.

Our Newcastle Correspondent informs us that
Earl GREY and his family passed through that
town on Saturday morning, between 10 and 11
o'clock, on his way to his seat, Howick Castle.
His Lordship, on being recognised, was loudly
cheered by the people, and multitudes soon
flocked round to see the champion of Reform.
His Lordship only stopped to change horses.
He looked extremely well.

It will be seen by an extract we have made
from the Warwick Advertiser, that Mr. Cos-
BETT and Mr. ATTWOOD are about to discuss
in public the subject of gold and paper money.
The price of admission to the discussion is to
be is. each person, the ability to pay which, we
suppose, is considered by both gentlemen a suf-
ficient index of qualification to judge of the ar-
guments they may respectively advance. It
may perchance happen that the secondary conse-
quences of such a discussion, namely, the sub-
ject being taken up by the press, and the set-
ting of men's minds to think upon it, may
be of service, but as to any immediate
good resulting from any thing of the
kind, all experience proves the idea to be
futile. Not to go farther back than the last half
dozen years, we have only to recollect what took
place on the occasion of the public discussion
between Mr. POPE and Mr. MAGUIRE on the
relative merits of the Catholic and Protestant
religions, also on the occasion of the public dis-
cussion between Mr. WOOLFF and the Jews,
to be satisfied that the most favourable termina-
tion of the affair will be the separation of the
parties without having made a single concert.
If the question is to be decided by the auditory,
it hardly requires a ghost to tell us that arguing
against Mr. ATTWooD in Birmingham, Mr.
COBBETT must go to the wall.

Of all the trimming supporters of his Ma-
jesty's Government, Mr. ROBINSON, of Wor-
cester, has most distinguished himself by the lu-
dicrous inconsistency of his conduct. Whether
on the question of Reform or of free trade, he
always professed himself willing to go as far as
possible ; but in the result the profession ap-
peared always to mean as far as he was obliged.
Thus it happened, that seeing Reform could not
be entirely defeated, he only voted occasionally
against his Majesty's Government ; but upon
questions of free trade, knowing that he should
be supported by the avowed and professed oppo-
nents of Government, as well as by all interested
in the matter, he took a more open course. For
instance, it was shown that in consequence of
the heavy duty which was placed upon Baltic
timber we were obliged either to use timber of
an inferior quality from America, or to get the
Baltic timber through America ; that is, that the
merchants took the Baltic timber to America, and
then re-shipped it for this country as American
timber. It was clear that this course of trade
could be no effectual protection to Colonial tim-
ber, and the Government lost by it the duty it
ought to have had upon that from the Baltic.
tinder these circumstances Lord ALTHORP
proposed to reduce the duty upon the latter
so far as to make it no longer profitable to pur-
sue this smuggling traffic. What did Mr.
ROBINSON and his friends the Tories do ?
opposed the proposition in order to protect the
colonies ! In a similar enlightened spirit did
the Hon. Member, in the course of last Session,
treat the House with various lengthy orations,
all equally remarkable for bold assumption, lack
of argument, wearisome dulness, and profound
nothings. One of the worst of these, because
one of the longest, Mr. ROBINSON has just been
pleased to publish in the form of a pamphlet,
we suppose as a part of his electioneering artil-
lery against the good people of Worcester. We
trust that the time is not far distant when all
the inhabitants of Worcester will see the fallacy
of the arguments which such men as Mr. 110••
BINSON address to their passions and prejudices.
In the meantime we hope that what we are about
to say will be received by them in good part, and
that they will bear in mind, that if there be one in-
terest more concerned in their welfare and in the
flourishing condition of the whole of the manufac-
turing population of the kingdom than another,
that interest is the newspaper interest. Trade
never receives any great shock that the news-
papers are not the first to feel its consequences.
The petition presented by Mr. ROBINSON, pre-
vious to making the speech before us, contains
the following sentence We, in purchasing
foreign manufactures, abstract so much profit on
money from the wages of British labourers."
This is the foundation of the petition—this is
the argument urged over and over again in dif-

ferent forms of language by Mr. ROBINSON in
every speech he makes. Again, the petition
says, " The free trade system is a simple transfer
of so much money from British to foreign la-
bourers." If this have any meaning, it means
that we must purchase from foreigners no manu-
factured article whatever, inasmuch as there is
no article which cannot be manufactured in
England ; and the more unsuited to our physical
situation the manufacture of' any article is, of
course the more we ought to encourage its ma-
nufacture, for the greater will be the quantity of
labour necessary for its production, and the more
we shall gain !
There is no argument advanced by Mr. RO-
BINSON among the few that ate to be picked out
from the ill-arranged verbiage before us, which
will not in the same way admit of the reductio
ad absurdum. Mr. ROBINSON says, at page
42, " The principal cause of distress in the ma-
nufacturing districts is the want of foreign
markets," and asserts that the policy of
the Government will not open those markets
to us ? What policy will. then ? We long had
enormous duties upon French wines and silks,
but did the French ports on that account fly
open ? We at last reduced our duties, but was
it for the sake of France, or, as Mr. ROBIN-
SON and his friends continually ding into our
cars, by way of concession to France ? No such
thing. The duties were reduced because they
were so high as to make smuggling sufficiently
profitable to inundate us with French goods,
and demoralize the whole of our coast populS-
tion. Mr. ROBINSON knows that when the
importation of French gloves was subject to a
prohibitive duty, they were to be had, as Mr.
Husictssox said, " in any shop," and that at as
low a price as now. Is it not then something
worse than a delusion which can induce him to
tell the people of Worcester that all that is ne-
cessary for their prosperity is a high duty ?
But it is not merely with respect to an article
in which he has an interest that Mr. ROBIN-
SON advances assertions the most unfounded,
and arguments the most fallacious. He has
taken upon himself to pass in review our com-
merce with different States, and seems in every
instance to consider our intercourse with a
country advantageous, not according to its
amount, but according to the inability of the
country trading with us to send us produce or
manufactures in return ! Quite consistently
with this notion, he appears to lament that the
United States of America are now able to send
us articles of consumption for our manufactures,
instead of having to send us money, which must
have been procured for her produce sold else-
where. Would he have us refuse to receive the
cotton of the United States, in older to procure
it at a dearer rate from other quarters? There
is hardly a sentence in the seventy or eighty
pages before us, which does not exhibit an in-
consistency. For once we will let the Hon. Mem-
ber expose himself. At page 48 he says,—
" With Sweden our whole exports is 157,0001.,
a decrease of 2,0001. since 1820, and not ex-
ceeding the amount exported to one of our small
West India islands. There is scarcely 1,0001.
of British manufactures—and why is this ? Be-
cause Sweden prohibits many articles, and dis-
courages the import of others by high duties."
We say nothing of the magnificent contempt
for all the rules of grammar the Hon. Gentle-
man here and elsewhere exhibits; for it is by
no means uncommon among the " practical
men," as they call themselves, with whom
the Hon. Gentleman is in league ; but it
would appear from this sentence, that because
Sweden chooses to pay dearly for some articles
thingpric e belowf this she may want from us, and to go without others
which we could supply to her at a low rate,
we are to refuse to take her iron. The transfer
of orders from Birmingham to the Continent,
which took place in 1820 and 1821, in conse-
iron in this
qouoeunncty, erois, of tohfe
othoeunrsolig :
a high
legis-
lator's notice. Again Mr. ROBINSON says,
" With respect to Denmark, our exports in
1830 were only 227,000/., which is 60,0001.
less than in 1820, though our imports from
thence have advanced from 170,0001. to
404,0001. Danish ships enjoy more than
double the carrying trade over British ships.
Her duties are enormous; and, amongst other
onerous regulations existing in Denmark, I find
soetd themt hem
iot to o anytho
that a person importing cotton manufactures into
consignee,
that coutl
but
country
not allowed to n
is obliged e
to put
King's store at Copenhagen, where they must be
sold by auction, after a deduction of 30 per cent.
has been made in their value. This is a regula-
tion which the Government would do well to
get rid of, instead of giving further facilities to
the importation of Danish timber." We un-
derstand the Hon. Member, in the first part of
this jumble of words, to complain of Danish
ships enjoying the greater part of the carrying
trade between the two countries. If the fact be
so, we presume that it arises from Danish ships
being more cheaply built and navigated than our
own, and yet, inconsistently enough, the Hon.
Member, in the last part of the quotation, wishes
to exclude the cheap and good timber with which
we 'might build ships to compete with those of
Denmark. In short, every argument advanced
by Mr. ROBINSON is founded in fallacy, and to
refute would require little more of us than to
quote them, and push them a step further than
the Hon. Gentleman has done. Only one ob-
servation more, therefore, and we have done
with Mr. ROBINSON. We could, perhaps,
urge several causes of the distress upon which
Mr. ROBINSON and his friends place so much
reliance, but it is sufficient for our purpose at
present to state, that he admits it to have
commenced before the measures of free-
trade, of which he complains, were thought
of. He says, " In the year 1819, this
country experienced the increasing pressure of
commercial competition, both at home and
abroad. Aggravated symptoms of that distres,,
which has since become so general and severe,
were evident amongst the whole of the trading
community, and of the various interests con-
nected with commerce and manufactures." Now
one would imagine that it would be but ra-

tional i❑ a man making this admission, to attri-
bute the distress we have since experienced to
the continued operation of causes which existed
before 1820 ; but reason is a thing in which
Mr. ROBINSON has small dealings. His logic
is even more absurd than that of the poor Nor-
wegians, who, we are told, attributed the dis tp-
pearance of fish from their coasts in a particular
year to vaccination being then introduced
amongst them, for those events were contempo-
raneous ; whilst the reduction of duties to which
Mr. ROBINSON ascribes the distress of his con-
stituents and other manufacturers, did not take
place till long subsequently to the appearance of
the " aggravated symptoms " to which he refers
as existing in 1819.

The following communication from the Ad-
miralty has been received at LLOYD'S this
morning:—

" Admiralty, Aug 1532.

" Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty your letter of yesterday's date, inclosing an ex-
tract of one from Patras, respecting protection for the trade
there and its vicinity during the approaching fruit season,
I dill commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you for the
information of the Committee for managing the affairs of
L!oyd's, that copies of your said letter and its inclo-ure
have been sent to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Hotham, Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Mediteranean.—l am, Sir, &a%
(Signed) " GEO. ELLIOT."
" John Bennett, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's."
" Freemantle, Western Australia, Feb. 14.

. - -
" The Faith, Willett, is in such a leaky condition as to
keep a pump constantly at work. Her copper is com-
pletely worn off. She will be hove down."

The following are extracts from Dutch and
German Papers received this morning:—

THE HAGUE, Aua. 23.—The Chamber of Commerce
at Amsterdam has announced that the cholera having
broken out in that city, the quarantine regulations for the
channels of the Texel and Luther north than be suspended,
only the ships and persons aboard being subject to a strict
examination. It has farther decided that if the ships are
bound to Friesland or Groningen, where the disorder has
not yet appeared, they remain subject to the existing qua-
rantine regulations.
Boss LE-Duc, Aua. 22.—Within these few days,
Belgian troops have appeared in the communes on the
right hand of the Meuse, opposite Kuyk. We hear that
these troops, about 1,000 in number, came from Venloo,
and have spread themselves over the country as far as
'Mosk, not far from Grave and Nimeguen. The accounts
from the camp are very satisfactory.
Prince Frederick has passed through this place on his
way to the Loo, and we hear that the Prince of Orange
yesterday set out from Tiburg, for the satne place. The
Prince's absence will be short.

Accounts from the frontiers say, that the patrols of the
Belgian troops appear to be more numerous, as if they ap-
prehended an attack on our side.
The cholera has nearly disappeared at Scheveningen,
where only seven patients remain : it is very severe at
Leyden, and has now appeared also at Utrecht.

. -
- . New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries.
THE HAGUE, Aug.2l, 22, and 23. 29 19 5
MYITERDAM, ditto, ditto. 46 21 18
AYISTERDAM, ditto, ditto. 74 43 14
LEY DEN, Aug. 19, 20, and 21.... 150 52 37
As the disease has so nearly disappeared at Scheveningen,
we hope that it will not be of so long continuance as it
has been in France.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, AUG. 24.
Actual Debt, 2ye per cent 43% to 44
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent ..... .........
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 9614 to 96%
Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent B3 to 83%
Exchange on London l2f 2,c. to 12f. 17c. 5-10.
Ditto, to months ,w

—Dutch Papers, Aug. 25.
ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 10. —By accounts from the
Caucasus and Daghistan we learn that the predatory
mountaineers, led by the famous Chief Kazi Moulla, made
several attempts in May last on vat ions forts of Daghistan,
having previously made an unsuccessful attempt on Vladi
Caucasus. Latterly Kazi Moulla had taken an unsuccess-
ful position 7 %versos from the village of Espili, whence he
sent out his bands to plunder. Being surrounded by the
troops sent against him, he escaped by a path that was not
guarded, but he was pursued, and some of his adherents
killed and wounded, among whom is his principal accom-
plice Hatnead Bek d'Avares.—St. Petersburgh Journal,
Aug. 11.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 25. —The Austrian Obser-
ver contains news of this dare, which has for the most
part already been published in the Allgemeine Zeitung.
We extract the following :—" Last week various reports
were spread of a great battle in Syria, to the disadvantage
of the Ottoman army. It was added that several Turkish
battalions had surrendered to the Egyptians, and that the
Defterdar and Kadiasker of the army had been killed in a
mutiny. It appears from authentic accounts, that at the
beginning of July there was an action near Horns, between
the Egyptian army and the irregular troops of Ateliemed
Paella of Aleppo, in which some regiments of regu-
lar infantry that arrived later were obliged to yield
to the superior force of the Egyptians, who, how-
ever, did not succeed in taking Horns. Hussein
Pacha, with the main army, had not yet come up. M.
Defterd tr. and Rudiasker had not lost their lives in a
mutiny, but with many officers and soldiers had fallen victims
to the hot wind prevalent in Syria at this season, or dif-
ferent endemic disorders. The apprehensions of the
Porte lest the army should want provisions are removed,
since news has art ived that part of the fleet from the
Dardanelles, with a convoy of sixty transports, had at rived
safe in the harbour of Alexandrette. The news of a battle
between the two fleets is not confirmed. Great exertions
are made to send troops from the capital to Asia, and se-
veral regiments, hitherto stationed in Rumalia, are on their
march thither. Sir S. Canning is on the point of
leaving this city on board the Barham frigate.
VIENNA, AUG. 16.—Five per Cents. 87 11-16;
Four per Cents. 76 9-16 ; Bank Stock, 1,144 I.—
Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 21.

BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY.—On
Wednesday week a numerous meeting of the proprietors of
the above Society was held at Dices Royal Hotel, to de-
termine whether or not the gardens should be open on a
Sunday, or any part of that day. THos. LEE, Esq., the
Magistrate, was in the Chair. A letter was • read from
the President, Lord DARTMOUTH, regretting his inability
to attend and vote for the proposition of opening the gar-
dens. A very spirited debate took place on the question.
The Rev. T. MosELEY, W. MARSH, J. A. GARBETT, and
J. A. JAMES, and Mr. R. CADBURY and EYRE LEE,
spoke in favour of the gardens being closed ; Dr. DAR-
WALL, Mr. J. PARKES, Mr. W. PHIPSON, and Mr. W.
PARE, spoke on the opposition side. A recommendation
of the Committee was ultimately adopted by a considerable
majority, by which the gardens will be opened on Sunday
to proprietors and subscribers and their friends, from three
in the afternoon till sunset. No money, however, is to be
taken that day.— Warwick Advertiser.

By the She/drake, which arrived this morning
from Halifax, whence she sailed on the 9th instant, we
learn that the winter bad been extremely severe through.
out Nova Scotia, the ice not having broken up at the time
the packet left. The earth's produce was consequently
very backward, and great distress generally prevailed,
especially among the emigrants that had arrived out, the
price of all vegetable food being very high. No intelli-
gence had been received of his Majesty's packet brig Re-
cruit, Lieut. rionGEs, which sailed from Falmouth on
the 11th of April last, with the mails for North Atneric s ;
it is, therefore, to be feared that she had foundered at sea.
The Recruit's time of return to this port was the llth ult.
Second Edition of the Falmouth Packet.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—It is our painful
duty to record the breaking out of a fire in this city, last
night, attended by a destruction of property to a very
considerable amount. At about half-past seven o'clock
flames were perceived in the upper story of ILsunr's ex-
tensive printing office, Cecilia-street, corner of Temple
lane. There was no person in the house at the time.
Shortly after nine o'clock the roof and lofts of the print-
ing office gave way with a tremendous crash, and all was
reduced to one immense mass of ruin. The premises of
Mr. HARDT, we believe, are insured. The accident oc-
curred, as we are informed, in consequence of some of the
boyelis engagedi
of papersntheestablish in the officementleaving
in
lightedthe candleamongstngt a parcel tipper
story. The melting of the type in the printing office de-
terred persons from entering the premises, consequently
the destruction of property was to a much greater extent
than otherwise would have been the case. The loss is es-
timated at about 7,000/.—Dublin Morning Register.
A curious idea of the American notion of
" the fitness of things " is tund in the name they have
given one of their new villages at the foot of the Niagara
Falls. They have called it Manchester ! What incon-
gruous ideas the very name must call up in the minds of
dB English travellers !...112arichester Guardian.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.:

FROM LLOYD'S

DEAL, Auc. 26.—Liiin71§.W.MOderate.—Arrived the
Maria, Owston, from Laguna ; H. and M. Coats, free
Virginia; and Ara'iian, Geldowny, from Havannalt
remains the Mary Ann, Hornb!ow, for Madras. Sailer
the Alfred, for Bengal.
PORTSMOUTH, 25 AND 26.—Wind N. W. strong
bre. 22.-Arrived his Majesty's ship Plumper, flog
Africa. Off port, the Sampson, Chadwick, from Net
York ; Latona, Patterson, from Quela;:.c ; and Zrnobia
Owen, from London, for Bengal. Remains the Uptol
Castle, Duggun, and Belle Alliance. Arcot!, for 11.binhay, ae'
the latter for the Cape and Madras. Sailed the 'Willfait
Thompson, Stewart, for Mauritius; Eleanor, M`Taggar
for Bombay and Georgiana, Young, for Bengal.
COWES, AUGUST 25.—Arrived the Cacatha, Boumat
from Bombay, Failed, May 1 ; the Virginia, Coffin, frog
Matanzas, and Brothers, Mosey, from Virginia.
BRIDPOR.T, Auc. 24.—Arrived the Atlantic, Doane
from Pugwash.
TOPSHAM, Ann. 24—Arrived the St. Patrick, Nortof
from Algesiras; the Venus, Williams, from Gibraltar.
FALMOUTH, Ave. 24. AND 25.—Arrived the Sheldrak
packet, from B Tinutla, sailed the 27th ult., and frog
flalifax the 7th inst., the Adahlne, Murry, from alessa
Active, Rea-, from London, for Gihriltar. Off port, th
St. Laurence, Blair, from Montreal, for London.

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 25.—Arrived the Higgenson, frog
Barbados ; Diorno, and Commodore Morris, from Neo
Or!eans ; Ocean, Elatol, Rockers, John Barry, and John
Cillendix, from Quebec ; Trinacria, from Palermo
Robert James, Haynes, Royalist—and Adventurer, KeikleY
from St. Petersburgh. Off Imort the Murray, Hoodoo
from Jamaica, and the Caledonia, from St. Andrew's
New Brunswick.

GREENOCK, Auc. 24.—Arrived the Science, Snell
from Surinam ; Westmorland, from Virginia ; Sir E
Co lrington, and Portaferry, from Quebec ; and Mercator
Wilson, from Pictou.

GLOUCESTER, AVG. 25.—Arrived the Nisthorpe, Aron
Quebec.

The Frances and Ithry, Edwards, from Dublin t
Liverpool, ha• put into Holyhead, with damage, and top i
bowsprit carried away, having been in contact with
steamer.