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last point, it is hoped, will contribute to remedy the com-
plaints so often made on this subject,which desiring to ex-
tend itself as much as possible, will second by its exertions
all the efforts of the Government, to convert into schools
of morality, establishments which are intended only for the
punishment of the guilty. It will admit affiliated societies,
and will especially employ the way of instruction to render
the prisoners better.

HAMBURGH, OCT. 4.

There is in the Weser another ship, the Creole, which
is to take on board and convey to Rio de Janeiro, between
3 and 400 military colonists.

The Allgemeine Zeitiing of the 11th instant, has
030 been received this morning. The Prussian Mi-
nister of Finance has returned from a visit to Pome-
rania and West Prussia, whither he had gone to as-
sure himself of the distress of the landowners in those
Parts, which he found to be too sadly true, as will be
seon by the following ,extract
BERLIN, SEPT. 28.
The Minister of Finance, M. Von Motz, returned on the
16th from his tour through Pomerania and West Prussia.
The numerous complaints from those provinces rendered
his presence necessary to examine the local circumstances
on the spot. In fact, the distress of the reat landowners,
who have become, perhaps improperly, the organs of the
'armors, is very great. This being acknowledged, we
shall be more and more convinced, even against our will,
that, with the progress of culture and population, very ex-
tensive landed possessions, as the property of individuals,
are injurious to the State, and can be supported only by
very disproportionate sacrifices. If this lesson Were the
Only one that we had derived from the distress of the great
landholders, which has been so frequently discussed, the
present generation would not have purchased it too dearly
14 the benefit of posterity.
By the abolition of what was called the Staatskontrale,
the department of Finance has obtained a new and more
'efficient character, which will be more clearly developed
by the new instructions for the Supreme Chamber of Ac-
counts, the, publication of which is anxiously expected.
M.Bit is said, will soon officially declare his conver-
sion to the Roman Catholic Faith, and at the same time
resign his office, having as it is reported splendid prospects
of being employed in foreign service. His departure will
deprive our mystics and pietists of a zealous advocate.
Visni4A, OCT. 6.—Metalliques, 89. 9-16. ; Bank Shares, 1058.

In another column will be found a statement of the
Irish Revenue for the last quarter, in which there has
been an increase of 39,0951. This improvement,
though small, is still satisfactory, as showing that the
"uses which operated so severely to depress particular
branches of our Revenue here, did not exist in Ireland.
We have no doubt that the reviving spirit of trade
will bear us out in our prognostications of a corres-
Iding improvement in the Revenue of the ensuing
quarter.

It has been said that the real cause of distress
throughout the country may be ascribed in a great
measure to combination, and we are inclined to think
that there is too much justice in the remark.. If we
L'ok to every department of trade, the spirit of
"inihination exists more or less in all. It per-
rides every particular branch of society in the shape
(if exclusive rights, another term for monopoly, and
*itch patty !Attu& up in defence of this assumed pri-
Nilege with all the stubborn vehemence of self-interest.
General acts of legislature, are of no avail against this
"era System of trade, for each individual interest has
its bye-laws to counteract the most wholesome provi-
-441 of the legislature. Every necessary of life is
lilted first by the law and then by the grower--the seller
;tilt his profits, and. the retailer ;doubles the impost.
tis the poor consumer must pay for keeping all
these worthies in bread—and some of them in their
r
'tillages. If the Legislature enact any measure designed
10 reach these Pirates, they immediately shift their course
41111 trim their sails to weather the storm. We have
pc! ekhination among the workmen against their em-
alejers, and these again against the public. We have
4 c °"13(31Y coals and a monopoly in beer. We have
o"lbi"ation among the landholders till the people are
frottight to starve at the threshold of their granaries
aen the high price of corn. In short we have
~,,iimbiriation ramified throughout the Kingdom like
tiatire,ry s
eD on hedges—every particular interest
tile_ltit,lg all it can in its own avaricious net. Where,
the}, Is the wonder, that matters should run hard with
IThounitv which these freebooters make
-ar, b„ _ • upon
power'? all the petty stratagems and intrigues in their

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thesehe
LAtiblic burdens arc inconceivably augmented by
.4141 sharks of various denominations, from the
windier in small beer to the knave in Joint Stock spe-
Nat'
tons. Thu very name of combination or monopoly
11'4 only implies fraud, but a bareficed coalition deter-
stifled to support it at all hazardB. 4, If the Public will
liot take
,our commodity at our price at, this shop, we
!vill compel them to pay more at the mixt 1" That is
I,tl effect the language of dealers in monopoly. They
I:hknow that they; have the public in then. power and
ow them no mercy, till the excess. of their avarice
1'" come sufficiently alarming to call for the bite-
Legislature. A perfect freedom of
;e'ence of the
41e is the only safeguard which the public
(.;all have against these impositions, and the sooner the
,44'omels of selfish interest are struck oft' from the
.:1!""us branches of our internal industry, the sooner
'.." the country generally feel the beneficial result.

trunswick Papers, of the 1441ISept. contain the follow..
t% telligence, copied from the Montreal Papers, relative to
!nsia Vrenkliu's expedition
ti
l'4ll evening a party ef men Who had accompanied Capt. Frank-
4al itit as the Frozen Ocean, arrived in town, bringing lettere
:1111,14er Lake to the 26th Jan. Capt. F. and his party were
,niunll high spirits, anxiously waiting the opening of the navi-
lo order to resume their expedition. The thermo-
Iot"4 ouly bon at forty-seven degrees below zero.-
44, underoutulao by this conveyance, that the return of furs
1V4,1/6.24liilered gotthroughout the whole of the Indian co 'try,
ver,r, 'et to settlement at Red River has !suffered se-
:We i,"„7* 41' th ig of the river last spring, the whole
47. heini inundated, and the buildings carried
141 t iattivia, confirm the intelligence which
6141, '4 fi-'4" relative to the disastrous state of the
r'a'n,twee* a.-eiivind, who are said to be reduced to 50t)tliNittetud even themapirited, and daily falling a sacrifice to the
Unless finforcements from Europe speedily arrive, this
tiewenri_ Was
fornd 01l be lost to the Dutch, whose Colonial policy is
jblinkragemeut and oppression.