The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-15 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1829.

GENTLEMEN'S FRENCH SPRING
BELTS, warranted to keep their position on the
body Without
.pressure ; to support the Corpulent, relieve
Debility, improve the Figure, and for the Ease and Com-
fort of those who ride on horseback or travel in carriages.
VISTIRIN and COMPANY, removed from Bond-
street, to No. 1, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street.--
Letters to be post-paid. Country Residents can send
measures by inches.

BRANDE'S PHARMACY, in Bvo. Us.

A MANUAL of PHARMACY, by WM.
11- THOMAS BRANDE, Lecturer on Pharmacy to
the Apothecaries' company, &c. &c.
Printed for Thomas and George Underwood, 32, Fleet-
street.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY.

An ACCOUNT of the EXPENSES incurred by the several
COMMISSIONS of INQUIRY during the Years 1827 and
1828.

Expenses incurred in the

e7rs

1827. I 1828•

X. s. d.

e,eas u 91

2,750 11. 2

653 II 11

14,000 0 o'l

7,300 P 01

10,000 0 01

9.896 17 31

1,556 5 61

12,000 0 01

4,115 17 10

X. a d.

9,039 7 7

3,936 8 10

440 12 8

17,333 2 1

6,932 9 6

172 10 0

9,501 0 0

4,275 19 0

441 1

1,730 15 1.,1

112 9 81

c

8,382 8 2

2,971 10 1

161 3 7

94,!8 0 0

1,371 12 0

218 9 2

3•?1 15 5

75,837 1 7163,101 0 1

Whitehall Treasury Chambers, May g

O. R. DAWSON.
„ 829.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
rer Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to s.
Blandford 73 40 29 44
Brigg 66 74 26 30 16 20 35 38
Cambridge— 74 27 19 31
Chard
Huntingdon 66 '7O 27 33 16 23 29 34
Long Sutton....—. 54 71 16 23 33 37
Louth 67 78 24 30 17 23 34 49
56 70 24 30 12 28 35 40
Newark 70 75 27 32 22 27 40 42
Nottingham 60 80 31 40 20 31 31) 45
Peterborough ...... 56 78 37 40 18 25 37 42
Plymouth 62 80 31 39 27 36
Pontefract.--... 76 39 23 49
Sleafortl
Uppingham —.. 68 82 31 39 18 28 34 44
Wisbech . 60 74 26 16 25 36 38

LEEDS CORN M A RKET.—May 12.
The supply of Grain up to this day's market has been consi-
derably larger than last Tuesday. Fine New Wheat cannot be
quoted lower, but the middling anst inferior samples of New and
Old may be noted Is. per quarter lower. Barley, in consequence
of the weather having become warm, has been in very limited
demand, and the light samples unsaleable when offered at a re-
duction of Is. per quarter from the price of last Tuesday. In
Oats and shelling no alteration in price, but the demand limited.
Ilard New Beans nearly support last week's price, tart those that
are damp, and Old ones, a!so Pease,- are heavy sale at prices
quoted. In Malt and Flour no material alteration in price; the
same may be said of Rapeseed.
Wheat, Norfolk and Sutlhlk, 601 h.
---- York. and Lincoln. 6011).
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk
-- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
--- Grinding
Beans 63lb. l2s. to 395. g
Oats, rotatoe
--Mealmg, Foreign I2d. to 13d....English 12d to InA. per st.
Shelling 32s. to 34. per load
Rapeseed, English, 311. to 331. Foreign, —/. to —l. per last.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—May 12.
Notwithstanding the favourable change in the weather, and
only a thin attendance of Vv heat buyers at this morning's mar-
ket, higher rates were firmly demanded for all qualities, and sales
to a fair extent effected in the best descriptions, at an advance of
about Id. per 701 b Oats were also more free of sale, and may
be noted fully as much per bushel dearer, with very few of prime
quality offering. Oatmeal is 64. to Is. per pack higher. In the
value of other articles we cannot quote any variation.
WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib.
Red

- Scotch, Welch, and Manx
Irish, White 9 8 10 3
Red 8 2 10 0
Foreign 9 2 10 7
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 4 3 8
- Irish
- Foreign
ilksituv, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 36 0
-- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. ...
- Feeding 4 3 4 9
Rearm, English, per Imperial quarter '36 0 41 0
--- Irish, &c.
- Foreign •35 0 41 0
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 42 0
~. _

- Foreign
noun, Engiish, per 2801 b
- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 29 0 31 0
INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b.
111.4., per Imperial quarter .... 14 0 38 0
MALT, per Imperial quarter
IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Weca ending May IL
Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatmeal.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Br's Irish,l &c. 'cks. Loads.
3,202 6,265 4 4,420 I 1,:482 I 1,631

BIR Mll INGHAM MA RKE I S.—May 14.
CORN MARKET.—We had a good . supply of all descriptions of
Grain at to-day's market. Wheat was a little lower, and all other
articles in the trade a dull sale.

s. d. to s. d.
Wheat, per 621 b.
Barley, per Imperial quarter 36 0 42 0
48 0 62 0
.se 39 0 44 0
Beans, per bag of 10 score gross
Oats, per 3Alb.
Fine Flour, per sack of 2801 b.
,Seconds 34 0 55 0

SMITHFIELII.—We had a moderate supply of Beasts and Sheep
at this day's market, and the sale was brisk at an advance of d.
Iper lb. on last week's prices. The supply of Irish Store Pigs was
arger than has been known for years; they were chiefly from
the neighbourhood of Manchester; sales dull, and Is. per score
lower in price.—Best Beef scl. to 55id.; best Mutton 5%d. to lid.;
Lamb ti%d. ; Veal 4d. to 4;id. per lb.; Porkers 7s. 6d. to Ss. Od.
per score.

RUMFORD MA lIKET.—May 13.
P. d. to s. d. .. d. s. d
Beef 3 2 4 2 1 Veal
Mutton 3 4 4 4 Pork 4 0 5 0

.Lamli .. 4s. Ski. to 6s. td.
Suckling Calves from I Is. to 325. ; Quarter old Pigsl2l. to 15s. each.
Supply rather limited, and trade very dull.

GLASGOW RETAIL
Beef per lb. Os. sd. to Os. Bd,
Mutton 0 4 0 6
Veal 0 7 0 9
Hams 0 5 0 7
Lamb......per qr 0 0 0 0
Quarterii Loaf 0 8 0 10
Flour, per stone 2 0 3 4
ltye

MAKIi.ETS.—A[ay 11.
Oatmeal, per et. 2s. Od. tote. Bd.
Pea.emeal 2 0 3 8
Pot Barley, cwt I 3 0 17 0
Pearl ditto 18 a 24 0
Grey Pease 12 0 14 0
White ditto 12 0 14 0
Blue ditto l2 0 21 0

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SAILOR'S HOME SOClETY.—Yesterday a
numerous meeting of the projectors and friends of this
Institution (Lord. MaNnEvna.z, M.P., in the chair,) took
place at the Freemasons Tavern. Several subscriptions
were announced in the course of the day.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

A free trade with India and with China has now
become not merely a mercantile, but in the strictest
sense of the word a national concern, We have no
doubt that if England continues to possess a Parlia-
ment to the end of the year 1830, the principle of
that great and much-sought-for measure will, ere the
lapse of the same period, have been recognised by
the House of Commons as one essential basis of
whatever charter may be granted to the Leadenhall-
street Company. If some future historian should
require proofs of barbarism in the commercial and
political system of the British Government during
the I 9th century, where could he find them so preg-
nant and unanswerable as in the toleration, or rather
open protection, afforded to this Company of mer-
chants ? That the Company should be armed with
despotic power over 100,000,000 of Hindoos and
Mahometans, whose 4ndepentlence they have crush-
ed, and whose soil they have appropriated, is
not much a subject of reproach or 'of astonish-
ment. By force _they gained what they must
hold bx fear. Such is the law of . conquests
achieved through unjust _wars for ltd higher
end than rapine. But that au equally uncon-
trolled attld inexorable despotism should be suf-
fered,-in the hands of the same Company, to ex-
tend itself from the persons and goods of the poor
Hindeos, over the interests, enjoyments, the free
exertions, and the lawful commerce of the whole
British nation, as well as of the slaves of Bengal,—
that Englishmen, who can trade with every people
on earth except those who may be at open war with
the King of England, should be trammelled
in their commercial intercourse with those regions
which are vulgarly but falsely termed the domi-
nions of the India Company, while it is known
that they are recognised by Parliament as belong-
ing specifically to the Sovereign of these realms,—
still worse, that British merchants should be
debarred for the sake of, and in subserviency to
this Compthy, from attempting to buy even one
pound of tea from a great kingdom which is not
under the sway of the Company, nor in any man-
ner connected with it by contiguity, government,
or treaty, but wholly distinct and independent, as
Russia, France, or Japan,—that ,Englishmen, we
say, should make themselves liable to confiscation
of their property if they dare to buy or sell with
China, and this for no reason under heaven but that
the monopolists of Leadenhall-street may be able to
extort .what price they please from the pockets of
their countrymen, for tea of whatever quality it _may
suit their sordid purpose to import,—does strike us,
and will be blazoned to all posterity, as the most
unparalleled and most disgraceful instance of
mean submission in a great empire to the avarice
and impudence of a junta of her own subjects.
The excellent volume lately published by Mr. Rie-
kardse entitled the First Chapter of his " India,"
Part Th ree, may. be read with advantage by every man
whO_Wishes to get below the surface of that system
which is denominated the " finance" of the India
Company, as it operates upon the native population
of Hindostan. It will thence appear that there is no
ho of amelioration for that wretched people but
fro" the infusion of some better materials into their
country, than those which have been, we make bold
to say, progressively declining in value and capability
under their present management. Englishmen ought
undoubtedly to haves right of residenceand commerce
on every spot within the dominions (for such is India)
of the.ceosen;of England. The impoverished condi-
tion of the native race, under that system-Of severe
exaction which constitutes the elements of the Com-
pany's revenue, can be cured only by an introduc-
of English activity, enterprise, intelligence, and
example; and to this remedy the Government and
Parliament of England must come, or England her-
self will sink under the re-action of Ilindoo
wretchedness upon her resources. We have not
time now to do justice to another publication, part
of which only has yet appeared,—viz. the second
edition of Mr. Crawfurd's pamphlet upon the com-
merce and colonization of India—a work which
embraces within a small compass a great
amount of solid and valuable knowledge upon
the affairs of India. It may, however, be-
come desirable to connect some reference
to this pamphlet of Mr. Crawfurd, with
the subject of last night's debate in the House of
Commons, on Mr. Whitmore's motion for a Select
Committee to consider the trade between England,
India, and China—a topic on which we may have
occasion to remark in a day or two. Mr. Goulburn,
it will be seen, did not object to the appointment of
a Committee, but merely pressed its postponement
to next Session, when it might be rendered more
efficient. We have little hesitation in saying, that
there is no question of domestic policy, on which
the whole kingdom bids fair to be more anxious than
on this of a dissolution of the monopoly in the East ;
nor any on which all classes of men (that is to say,
excepting the Leadenhall merchants) are likely to
be so unanimous.—Times.

The important motion of Mr. Whitmore for an
inquiry into the trade between Great Britain, the
East Indies, and China, was introduced to the
House last night, in a speech distinguished for ability
and clearness. Mr. Whitmore detailed the enor-
mous increase which had taken place in the exports
to India since the opening of the trade. " Large as
is the present amount of the trade (said the Hon.
Gentleman), and rapid as has been its growth, I
am convinced that we yet know nothing of the
amount to which it may be carried; every body con-
nected or acquainted with the trade to India agrees
in opinion that no assignable limits can be named
for it, the only difficulty being to find a profitable
return for the investment sent out." Having.stated
he increase of the imports, which had not improved
at the rate of the exports, he observed that with one
or two trifling exceptions, the products of India are of
inferior quality. One of the exceptions is a singular one,
and the circumstance, connected with the extension of
its cultivation, may be considered decisive of the ques-
tion now agitated. India►► Indigo, the article alluded
to, has, from bei►►g an unsaleable article in Europe,
become superior to that produced in South America;
and not only this country, but all Europe, is supplied
with this drug from British India ? How is this?
Because for the last 40 years Indigo in the East In-
dies has been under the superintendance of British
capitalists. The conclusion drawn from this fact by
Mr. Whitmore is, " that if the same permission to
British subjects to embark their capital and employ
their superintendence were extended to other arti-
cles, the same effect would follow." Cotton and
sugar alight be produced in any quantities, and of
the best quality, were any pains bestowed on their
cultivation and prepa►ation. The same may be
said of silk. Anti why may not British capital
be embarked in India ? Let us hear Mr. Whit-
more :—" I now come to the question of allow-
ing Englishmen to settle in India, and upon it
I conceive that the whole result must depend.
It is - my belief, that if we prevent that settlement,
and thereby prevent the employment of British ca-
pital and skill, we cannot carry the trade farther
than at present; but if we adopt the more generous
as well as the wiser course of permitting English-
men. to proceed thither without restraint, we may
carry our commerce to the East to any extent." It
seems strange that, possessing a country five times
as large as France, and four times as populous,
rich in the capability of yielding the most valuable
agricultural productions, we should not endea-
, Your to avail ourselves of that capability. The