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the supply of equal advantages .to Foreigners,--and,
secondly, in having themselves, to pay more for the
machinery required at home. It must be obvious that
if Foreigners can " get up" machinery Cheaper
than ourselves, we shall, in case of exporta-
tion, have the satisfactory advantage of sup-
plying them with patterns, 'which 'will facilitate their
operations, and which, as was the case with Scot-
land, their own workmen will not only manufacture
for them, but also for the very people from whom
they derived their first supplies. If we continue
the prohibition, and watch, with increased vigilance, the
offenders against the law, it will take centuries to rival
us in that species of manufacture; but remove the re-
strictions, and we decline from that moment. Mr.
KENNEDY, in a letter to the Honourable E. G.
STANLEY, M.P. on this subject, says' the exporta-
tion of machinery absolutely compels the foreign manu-
facturer to posSess the means of becoming his own ma-
chine-maker, and the more Machines you send, the yeater
number of mechanics will be required to keep them
in order ;" and further, lie remarks, in reference
to the complaint, " that mechanics arc now inveigled
out with tools, &c." that in case 'of exportation,
mechanics with their tools must be ultimately employed)
not only in repairing the existing machines, but also
in the making of new ones." We may? resume this
subject ; but in the mean time we protest against the
exercise of liberality, which would cause the infliction
of so serious an injury on the commerce of the United
Kingdom.

Our private accounts from Manchester, represent
that town and the surrounding districts as perfectly
tranquil. The timely subscriptions so spontaneously
entered into for their relief, have produced the most
beneficial effects.

We understand that it is probable that Major-
General. Sir Neil Campbell will succeed the late Ge-
neral Turner as Governor of Sierra Leone and its
dependencies.

The Duke of Devonshire embarked on board the
Comet steam vessel, off the Tower, yesterday after-
noon, and proceeded down the river to the Glou-
cester. No account of his Grace's arrival on board
that ship has yet been received in town.

Letters have been received from New York to the
18th April, and we are sorry to add, without bringing
any accounts of the Crisis, Captain VAN DYKE,
which vessel sailed from Cowes on the 11th January,
with a considerable number of passengers, so that
great fears are entertained for her safety.

The following is an extract of a letter received in
:own yesterday, dated Leghorn, April 26 I have
just received a letter from Venice, in which - as-

sures me for certain, that the siege of Missolonghi has
been raised, and that Ibrahim has retreated to Patras.
It is even said that he is mortally wounded." Another
letter states, that the above news had been brought to
Trieste on the 27th of April by an Austrian Govern-
ment vessel, which left Zante on the 10th ; and that
the Greek fleet, under the command of Miaulis, had
arrived before Missolonghi.

By the following extract from the German Papers
which arrived this morning, it will be seen that the
power of the Emperor of RUSSIA, and his indepen-

dence of the constituted Authorities, are placed
their true, but absolute colours :

FROM THE BANKS OF THE MAINE, MAT I.
(Extract from a Private Letter.)
" Having been settled in Russia fur a qUarter of a century, and
having returned only a few weeks ago to iny native place on family
business, I find it difficult to conceive, when I read the news-
papers, how the much enlightened countries in Europe can have
remained so ignorant As they arc of the most simple and notorious
facts relative to the institution* of my adopted country. Recollect-
ing the memorable events which principally under the late reign
have drawn Russia and the other Stated of the Continent nearer
together, I might be allowed to believe that a knowledge of the
Russian nation and Government, formerly confined to n few tra-
vellers, was now, generally diffused among well informed persons.
lint I:now. see more than ever that there are impressions which
most men do not easily renounce, viz., those which leave in their
minds ideas attached to certain denotninaCens. Thus, fits in,
stance, • the English Papers, and after them the French, which
tr.mslate them continually, describe the Senate of St.' Petershurgh
as a representative body, for no other reason certainly than that it
bears the name of Senate : they seem to. be 'ignorant that the
members of that body, named by the Sovereign, paid by him,-and
removable at his pleasure, 6ve in their collective capacity none of
the elements of a representative body ; and besides, it is evident
that a tribunal, the business 'of which is to judge in civil and cri-
' minal affairs, to take cognizance of and to publish the ukases of
• the Emperor, and to control in one of its sections only the accounts
and contracts of some of the functionaries of the Government, has

THE FUNDS.

City, 12 o'clock this day.

in its nature no concern with the ordinary affairs of the internal
administration, or with the alterations and improvements of which
it may be perceptible. The first are confided to a Committee of the
Ministers which sits at St. Petersburgh. As for the plans re-
lative to the administration and measures to be adopted on im-
portant occasions, the diseussion of them is reserved to the Coon-
cil of State, called the. Council of the Empire, when the Sovereign
is pleased to ask the advice of its Members. This Council is also
a Court of Appeal, to decide, in the last instance, on causes al-
ready'brought before the Senate, when the decision has not had in
its favour 'two-thirds of the vote►, or when the Emperor orders
them to be reconsidered ; yet, neither the Council of the Empire,
notwithstanding its high rank among the public functionaries, nor
the Senate, have the smallest share in the deliberations on matters
relating to foreign policy, which depend exclusively on the will of
the Sovereign.
• " It is evident, therefore, that the pretended Counsels given 14
the Senators fur the preservation of peace, with which the public
journals have been filled, and their opinions respecting the legiti-
macy of the insurrection of the Greeks, must appear quite absurd
to all readers who have some acquaintance with the Russian
Government. Without, houtever, ascribing to the writers
an intention to mislead their subscribers, we may, however,
advise them to speak less positively, and to consult before they
write the numerous travellers who have visited the country, and
what would be still better, those who have resided in it.
MUNICH', AMU. 28.
This afternoon a deputation of the Magistrates of this city had
the honour of waiting on his Majesty by his special desire, when
he was pleased to inform them that it was finally determined to
remove the university of Landshut to Munich, and that he was
happy to communicate to them a decision which would he so ad-
vantageous to the city. That Landshut would be indemnified for
the loss, and on the other hand, the collections of works of art,
the libraries, the botanic garden, the iubnirably regulated hospital,
and other public establishments, would be a great advantage to
the University, the prosperity of which his Majesty was resolved
to promote by every means in his power.

Consols opened this morning at 78ii, since which time, they
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ou our books has arrived, and that from Ilamburgb.
India Bonds, 4 per Cent. 0, 10 ;
4 per Cent. Scrip, to pm.
FoaxtGN FUNDS.—Brazilian, ö per Cent., 55i, 8. ; Buenos
Ayres, 6 per Cent. 58, 9; Chilian, 6 per Cent., 41, 2 ; Colom-
bian, 6 per Cent., 1822, 88i, 893-; 1824, 41i, 2 ; Greek, 15,
161; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 52, 4 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent, 62/, 1 ;
Russian, 761, 61.

Two o' Clock.
Consols 781;; Reduced 78 ; New Scrip prem. New Fours
; Mexican, 63-1/ ; Colombian, 44 to If.
A Quarter past Tio o'Clock.

Consols have risen from 76f toy considerable business hav-
ing been done at -t; the Market continues steady at this advance.