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view of the mode k labial cotton was obtained by the
domestic manufacturer, for that article was no exception to
the necessary law of commercial interchange, by which the
produce of the capital and labour of one country was ex-
changed for the produce of the capital and industry of an-
other. If there was no other objection to returning to
the vicious system of commercial prohibition which cir-
cumstances had hitherto enabled this country to pet sist in,
lie would object to it because we should not only go back
in one article but in others,—in woollens and iron for ex-
ample,—from which we bad removed restrictions that had
impeded the domestic manufacture of those articles. While
he stated this, he did not mean to deny that individuals
had benefited LI the prohibitive system, and had met
with losses by the destruction of their monopoly. But
the question for the House to consider was, not what
merely benefitted or injured individuals or parties, but
what promoted the general interests of the community
at large—(Hear, hear,)—not whether this single branch
of industry, or that single branch of industry would be ad-
vantaged or disadvantaged by the repealing or reducing of
a prohibitive duty, but whether all the other branches of
industry would be benefitted or injured by it.—(Hear. )
That being the proper question for Parliament to consider,
he would confidently assert that the changes in our com-
mercial system which he had been instrumental in bring-
ing about, however they may have effected this or that
single chase, had contributed to the extension and culture
of the general industry of the country. The very fact
quoted by those who bad objected to those changes proved
his assertion. It was stated that commodities were to be
had for one-third or one-fourth less now than in 1824.
But what did this fact prove, unless- that, first, we could
now procure equal quantities of foreign produce with less
labour, and that the difference was so much added to the
capital and industry of the country, to be employed in
other branches of commerce and manufactures ? By what
other way could the extraordinary increase that had taken
place in our internal consumption since the prohibitive
system had been altered he accounted for, but by the in-
creased facilities of obtaining foreign produce, and the
consequent addition to the capital and industry of
the country ? The phenomenon—for it was a phe-
nomenott--could be accounted for by no other supposi-
tion. If they looked to the extraordinary increase
that had of late years taken place in the importation
of the article of cotton, they would see a striking instance
of the extraordinary increasue that had also of late rears
taken place in domestic consumption. If tLey looked to
the great demand for wool that had arisen within a few
years, when not only more sheep were reared in this
country, and, as a consequence, more British wool grown,
but 40,000,0001 b. of foreign had been imported to meet
the demand, they would sae a strong prof of extraordi-
nary internal consumption. If they looked in the same
manner to the increased imports and manufacture of iron,
silk, and other articles, they would see proofs of an im-
mense internal consumption that could only he accounted
for by the fact of increased facilities enabling them to so
add to the capital and industry of the country, as to
greatly increase the means of consuming domestic menu-
factures.—(Hear, hear.)—lt was true that some branches
of industry had met with partial losses; but these losses
were not consequent upon the changes that had been
made in our commercial policy. On the contrary
but for them he was conv ieced those losses would
have been greater. The state of our currency system—
now fortunately settled—contributed much to those losses ;
er it contributed much to the ruinous speculations of
1825, in which the expenditure and loss of capital was
greater than any year during the war, and from the suf-
ferings of which the country was not yet relieved. But
he contended that those sufferings would have been greater,
bet ler the alteration which had been previously adopted in
the principle.; of our commercial system. Notwithstand
inn those losses they were enabled to remit many taxes,
and the manufacturing and commercial interests had made
a rapid pi ogress. He must on that very account lament
that so many persons; bad been induced, the Keret with
the hope of quick and large profits, to embark in schemes
which a little reflection must have shown them must have
ended either in total loss or grievous disappointment. Hun.
Gentlemen had stated, that the cornmeeee of the country
was in a state of decay. He begged leave to ask them
where was the evidence to bear out the asset tion? What
did official accounts say in relation to this alleged decay ?
He begged the Nouse to attend to one or two unquestion-
able facts derived from a very satisfactory test of the de-
'line or increase of the commercial dealinzs of the
country,—namely, the exports. In 1827 the exports
amounted in value to (in round numbers) 40,323,0004 ;
in 1828 to .51,000,0001. ; and to the bth of January
of the present year, to 52,000,000/,--(hear, hear,)—
showing an increase of not less than 12,000,D00/. sterling
in the exports of 1829 over those of 1827 ; and of 1,000,0
over those of last year. Again, let them look to the ship?
ping interest,—another most important branch of our com-
mercial system—end they would see that though the pro-
fits were not equal to those of the monopoly enjoyed by
the British shipping trade during the war, that trade had
nevert%eless increased,while the foreign shipping trading to
this country bad diminished. The contrary, he was aware,
lied been confidently stated, but he trusted it would not
again be asserted in that House. The amount of tonnage
of British shipping clearing outwards and entering in-
wards (Lying the year ending the sth of January, 18$3,
was 27,700,6;;P ; that of the year ending the sth of Ja-
nuary, 1829, was 31,003,000, showing an increase of
more than 1-9th in on..' year.—(Hear, bear.)—But per-
haps Hon. Members would i;.IV that the tonnage of foreign
shipping trading to this country ,had increased in an rio4l
or a greater ratio. What was the fat.' ? The tonnage of
all foreign vessels entering inwards or cleae-ing outwards in
1828 amounted to 700,000 tons ; that of the resent year
to 600,000, showing a diminution of 100,000 tons, or
I-7th of the entire foreign shipping trading to this coun-
try in one year. Was not this statement decisive on this
point ?"—(dear, hear.)—" One word," said the Right
Hon. Gentiteman, " in relation to the position in which
I stand individue!lv towards the changes that have been
made within the last few years in our common civil policy.
My Hon. Friend (Mr. Ruing), the Member for Calling-
ton, has alluded to the vitupciatit;2! to the endless obloquy,
to the calumny, that has been heaped cs:.l me, as the organ
of the Government by which these changes eeere effected.
I assure my Hon. Friend, that when I felt it to i;Z! my
duty to recommend the alterations that have been so
beneficially made in the commercial and navigation
laws of the country, I clearly foresaw all the obloquy
And viteperation that have been heaped on me. I
knew that individuals and parties would visit on me
the sufferings brot;,;ht about by their own indiscretion, or
by other causes, over which I could have no controul.
But while I clearly foreers7/ all this, I did not the less
clearly see, nor the less forci;:lv feel, that I owed it to
myself, as a Member of this House, and as a Minister of
the Crown, to retommend a particular line of policy,
however distasteful that policy might be to interested in-
dis iduals, and however likely it might be to give rise to
mierepresentions of my motives and objects, when my
conscience told me it was that most certain to promote
the general welfare of my country.—(Hear, bear.)—l felt
that no man was fitted to preside over the commercial in-
terests of a great country, who was not ready to sacrifice
personal feelings to the public benefit,—(hear,)—that no
man should be a British Minister who was not above all
such individual consideration.—(Hear.)—Having felt this,
I calmly and steadily persevered in what my conscience
told me was my duty. Nor am I without my reward ;
for when I am told of the disadvantages which individuals
have experi.nced from the changes which I was an in-
statement it introducing into our commercial system, I
say in repiy, that those changes have tended, more than
all other events or measures, to impress the country and
foreign states with just notions of the value of an unre-
stricted commercial intercourse, and with a conviction
of the :nischievoug absurdity of commercial jealousies
and attempts at commercial monopoly. The present wise
system of commelrcial policy has inculcated an impor-
tant doctrine in the I,ls.cific relations of one country to
another—in chewing that one state is not enriched by
the impoverishment of anothe.Z. but that mutual inter-
change of their respective produce' is the only sure basis
of mutual prosperity. By this it ha: tended, and wilt
daily tend, more to prevent contests for o.l)lects of cona-
mercial selfishness--to avoid a recurrence of Aloes naval
wars which in the end injure the manufae::lrmg
greatriess of all the parties engaged in it. It has given
rise to just notions of commercial intercourse with colonies
by putting an end to all those petty rivalries in which co.
lon:e. hitherto had involved the mother countries. Was
this mere asset flon ? Let the extraordinary fact in the
history of the country,—that for fifteen years we have en-
joyed a commercial peace with the world,—that, for the
first time during so many years, Parliament has not been
called upon by the Crown to protect with a naval and mi-
litary force some colonial commercial right, or to resist
some commercial outrage--answer the question.—(Hear.)
—By the general principles of our present liberal system
of commercial policy, we have disarmed other countries of
their former usual resource of excluding our manufacturers,
by convincing them that they must, more than ourselves,
suffer by a retaliation of their conduct. I will go farther
and say, that if we had not altered our prohibitive laws,
we should long since have been engaged in a mischievous
war with some State like ourselves, equally blind to our
own interests. The present repudiated free trade system,
then, not only tends to allay irritation and preserve peace
to the colonies, but to prevent war with other nations.—
The Hun. Member fur Newark (Mr, Sadler) says )re will

at a proper opportunity enter into a discussion on the prin-
ciple of free trade I shall not now, therefore, anticipate
that discussion, and shall only say, that whenever it takes
place he will find me ready to meet him. May I, without
expatiating on the subject, ask other Hon. Members a
question, which I have frequently asked the Hon. Mem-
bers in vain, namely, what does he mean by the terms free
trade? Will he tell me what object does he wish to see
accomplished, what evils to be remedied, which the present
system fails to accomplish or fails to remedy? What
would he permit or what would he restrict in our com-
mercial system that is not new permitted or restricted ?
Will the Hon. Member, instead of permitting himself to
be run away with by vague words, give us a definite mean-
ing of all the evils which he conceives to be rolled up in
the phrase " free trade?"—(Hear, hear.)—By acting on
the principles of free trade, I understand that we ought to
lessen or remove every restriction on our commerce that
tends unnecessarily to cramp the energies of individual en-
terprise, without henefitting the revenue. Those princi-
ples I have long advocated, and will continue to uphold ;
f'r I am satisfied by experience that gradual relaxation of
our restrictive system has been invariably followed by gra-
dual improvement in our manufactures, in our commerce,
and in our revenue.--(Hear, hear.)—ln those principles I
trust my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. V. Fitzgerald) will per-
severe, despite of clamour, misrepresentation, and obloquy.
He may calculate on my cordial assistance ; for I will
never cease to advocate the principles of the changes in our
commercial system, of which I have been the official in-
strument, so long as I continue to be supported, as I have
been, by the general sense of Parliament and the country.
—(Hear, hear. )—So long as I uphold those principles, I
am satisfied so long shall I be enabling the country to sup-
port its burdens, and to advance in commercial and manu-
facturing prosperity. Hon. Members may say, that those
principles tend to place the country in an artificial state;
but I ask, is not every country with which we are ac-
quainted in an artificial state? Is not the very
institution of Government artificial? Is not France, for
example, an artificial country? Has she not debts
to pay—taxes to levy—a police, an army, a navy, a
Court, a Parliament—in fact, artificial institutions to main-
tain? In a word, must not every country be said to he
artificial which is not shut op in itself,—dependent wholly
on its own resources—without any interchange between it
and other states—without, therefore, any benefit to covet
or bestow ? The charge, then, of an artificial state is
meaningless. I feel proud in having had a share in
establishing a system of commercial dealing which I am
convinced is the most advantageous to the general interest
of the country that could have been adopt.-d. By it the
energies of the empire at large will be cultivated, its industry
and capital most advantageously applied, and its resources
placed in the roost favourable condition for meeting the
exigencies of those wars to which all great commercial
nations are exposed, and which they should never he un-
prepared for. With respect to the motion before the
House, I shall only add, that I entirely concur with my
Right lion, Friend (Mr. V. Fitzgerald) that the best mode
to preserve, and int.-Erase, and improve silk manufactures
in this country, is to persist in the present policy of the
Government.—(Cheers.)
Mr HUME moved that the debate be adjourned to to-
morrow (this day), in order that many Hon. Members,
himself fin one, who were anxious to address the House,
might have an opportunity of doing so.—The motion for
adjournment was accordingly agreed to,
The LORI) ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a
Bill for tlYe improVement of gaols in Scotland ; and ano-
ther to prevent death by suffocation.
Mr. BARING presented a petition from a British sub-
ject, a native of Malta, complaining that his claims,
45,0001., under the Spanish Convention Act, had not been
w.knowledged,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
reason why the petitioner's claims were not acknowledged
was, that he at one time addressed the Commission as a
Spanish, at another as a British subject ; so that they
were unable to determine to what class of claimants he
belonged.
Adjourned 4t Half-past One o'clock..

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

The Royal Assent was yesterday given by com-
' mission to the Oitholic Relief Bill, and the Elective
Franchise in Ireland Regulation Bill. These mea-
sures are now therefore part of the law of the land.
Thus the last vestige of the Penal Laws has been
swept away, Religion will no longer arm citizen
against citizen. The interests of another world will
no longer serve as a pretext for perplexing the affairs
of this. We are now free to enter fearlessly on the
consideration of the condition of Ireland. "We
write in the. last day, perhaps, of the British Con-
stitution," says the i/andard of yesterday. Yester-
day, then, was the last day of the British Consti-
tution. The Duke of Wellington, then, has
fairly dezitroyed the British Constitution in spite
of " the remoastances of the whole Church ;"
and even of the Protestant inhabitants of Lon-
don and Westminster, who nearly filled two
coaches on Friday last, when they astoniched his
Majesty's rooks at Windsor by their presence.
How strange the language held on this occasion
must sound ere long l How much zeal and bluster,
worthy of a better cause, has been thrown away !
Would that the Clergy, who have been acting so
absurd a part, in practising on the ignorance of their
parishioners, c 0414 be compelled to have the peti-
tions drawn up by them perpetually suspended from
their necks, that the eontemplatien of ►heir past
folly might serve to impress them with the necpssity
of more moderation in time to come! We ha►e al-
ready more than ,cnce expressed our sentiments re-
specting the conduct of the Duke of Wellington
throughout the whole of this busiupss, and we shall
not now return to the subject. It is, indeed{ unne-
cessary, There can be but one opinion with all
whose opinion is worth any thing, as to his merits
on this occasion,--Morning Chronicle.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

With the exception of 12 to 1 agst Quadrille (Green Mantle
having again become the favourite at 11 to 2), the betting yester-
day was confined to the Riddlesworth and Derby. For the former
Windfall (after having been at 8 to 1) is gone altogether ; so is
Will-o'-the-Wisp; and Moses would have followed than, but
for the spirited manner in which his principal backer supported
him. The Derby odds are somewhat different from our last quo.
tation. Espagnolle, Canvas, and Camel, opened in the order in
which we have given their camas; but the odds being taken
freely about Camel, and EspagneAle's l.ejng slack, they closed as
below. A new favourite has appeared in a horse from Mr. Pet-
tit's stable, Chiron, who is backed, we prestia.:ue, t'or the same
reason that Canvas, Morris Dancer, Lapdog, and PriocaEug
were made favourites, viz. because he was shamefully beaten
ay
a two-year-old; it must be allowed, however, that it is safer to
bet against a beaten horse than one whose merits are unknown.
Several outsiders were backed. We subjoin the odds :

65 to 40 agst Luss
'7 to 2 agst Canvas
12 to 1 agst Burman
12 to I agst Moses (taken)
20 to 1 ag

RIDDLESWORTH.
13 to 1 agst Auggst3 (taken)
13 to 1 agst Reformer
18 to 1 agst Will o'-the-Wisp
20 to 1 agst Windfall (taken)
:st Morel,

9 to 1 agst Canvas
9 to I agst Camel
10 to 1 agst FApagnolle (taken)
11 to I apt Luse
14 to 1 agst Morris Dancer
20 to 1 agst Chiron
20 to 1 agst Br. to Moses
20 to 1 agst Mr. Go
No others

:35 to 1 agst Reformer
40 to 1 agst Nessus ktaken)
40 to 1 agst Eliza Teazle (taken)
40 to I agst Sycorax
30 to 1 agst Lazarus
50 to 1 agst Jane Shore (taken)
iboo to 5 agst Mohican.
vine's threk (taken)
mentioned,

RACES TO COME.

Anson Hunt March 31 Bath and Bristol July fl
Croxton Park Apra 8 Newcastle '7
Malton Liverpctoi , 8
Cottesmore Hunt 9 Newmarket July Meeting.... 13
Pytebley Hunt 10 Preston l4
Newmarket Craven 2O Cheltenham 21
Catterick Bridge 22 Bibury
...
Bath Spring 28 Stamford 22
Newmarket Ist Spring... Way 4 Knutsford
. 4 Oxford 2B
. 'bight on ...

di(t,3p and Bristol l2
Hand)Ladon , '4
Newmarket zrl Spring lk
Liverpool ....' . ...... ......„,... l9
York Spring Meetini , 25
Epsom. , June 21
Beverley ~ , . 3
Manchester lO
Ascot He-ith . l6
Newton , „, 17
Haigh Park (Leeds) 24
Buxton 24,
Stockbridge 26,
Ascot Seeon4 Meeting 3O
Lancaster 30
Ludlow ...duly 1

BS4olton ,
York August tieenng...Aug 4
Wolverhampton ,„„ .. 12
Goodwood l2
tWarwick Sept. 1
4chfield
NorthargOon 9
Leicester 9
•
Doncaster. l4
....
Shrewsbury l5
rileaton Park 23
Lincoln . 23
Carlisle 25
Newmarket Ist Delober 28
Newmarket 2d October,.; Oct l2
Newmarket Houghton 26

WRESTLING.

On Friday next a grand wrestling-match will take place at the
Eyre Tavern, BC John's Wood Grove, between the members of the
Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Club, for a massive
silver cup, and a number of other prizes. The principal wrestlers
are F. Dobson and John Dixon ; the former is a stout, brawny,
heavy man ; the latter a fine-grown athletic youth, who bjds fair
to win the first prize. Considerable sums are pending upon this
contest ; as much as 6to 1 has been offered lon Dixon, and re-
fused. Dobson is a well.known wrestler.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1829.

In the House of Commons last night, Mr. FYLER
descanted at some length on the state of our Silk
Manufactures, which he represented as being in the
last stage of decrepitude, arising chiefly from the
Free Trade system, which, as applied to this parti-
cular branch of commerce, had, he asserted, altoge-
ther failed. This assertion he attempted to prove
by documents, transmitted to him from Congleton,
Coventry, Macclesfield, Paisley, Dublin, and other
places, where the manufacture of Silk goods is car-
ded on to a great extent; but though he satisfied
the House that the distress among the throwsters
and weavers, at those different places, was very
general just at present, he failed to show how such
distress was attributable to, or in any way mixed up
with the departure from the prohibitory system. In..
deed, by one observation he made use of, he completely
proved the contrary, and committed suicide on his own
argument. The distress, he said, was not confined to
England, it was felt even in France, at Lyons espe-
daily, a clear proof that the Free Trade has little or
nothing to do with it, but that it arises—as Mr. V.
FITZGERALD justly observed in reply—from an
over-trading and over-production in both countries.
Like other branches of commerce, the Silk business
has its sudden seasons of progression and decline—its
extraordinary vicissitudes, which no one can wholly
foresee, and which few, when they do arrive, can
satisfactorily account for. It goes on—as was the
case with the bookselling trade the other day—for a
dozen or more years, inviting speculation by the
luck that has attended it—every thing looks smiling
and fortunate about it—the business is pushed to
the utmost possible extent—success induces negli-
gence—no provision is made for future contingen.
ties, and in this state of artificial prosperity there
comes a hurricane, which, on a sudden, lays
all waste before it; hundreds are involved in
min—the storm rages till the commercial horizon
is cleared, and then all goes on as smilingly
as before. Precisely in this condition is the Silk
Trade now placed. For a length of time it has
been speculated in and extended to a degree
beyond what prudence or even common sense
would warrant; and the consequence has been a
smash, in which the weak have been plunged into
ruin, and the strong have with difficulty made good
their standing. But is it fair—is it just—is it
honourable to attribute to the Free Trade system,
what has been the necessary result of over-trading ?
With ql,ite as much justice might Lord ELDON be
blamed for his toleration, as Mr. HusiussoN and the
enlightened upholders of his system be condemned
for the distress at present existing among the Silk
Weavers,

Mr. V. FITZGERALD'S reply to Mr. FYLER'S co-
pious collection of grievances was temperate and
convincing. He at once admitted the distress, but
traced it to its proper origin, and proved, to the
evident satisfaction of the House, that a return to
the prohibitory system, instead of assisting would
cramp, instead of extending would annihilate the
manufacture of Silk. He recommended a reduction
pn the duty of foreign thrown Silk, allowing a draw-
back of sP plush of the duty on such silk am should
attach to British mannfc,cture exported. He recom-
mended alio a duty of 20 per cent., ad palorent, for
the Silk goods of British India, observing, at the
Sallie time, that he held himself and the Government
unpledged to any future scale of reduction.

Mr. HuslossoN's defence of himself and his
system of commercial policy was one of the most
triumphant pieces of sound straight-forward reason:,
ing we have ever had the good fortune to read, The
eniighteried spirit that pervaded it was equally on a
par with the argument, and will convince all but the
incurably prejudiced that, in proposing and carrying
into execution a generous system of free trade, the
,31:ject of wbiph is to lessen or remove every restric-
tion on out c,:;Onlerce, thq.t tends unnecessarily to
. • •
cramp the energies of tudiviutta, enterprf without
benefitting the Revenue, the Right Hon. Gent. has
entitled himself to the lasting gratitude of his coun-
try. The debate was adjourned at a late hour till
to-night.

Hamhurgh and German Papers have been re-
ceived this morning, from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts. The Russians and Turks seem
determined on resuming the war in earnest :---
FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, MARcit 19.—Something
disagreeable to the Turks must have occurred lately, for
the Turks at Belgrade have as melancholy countenances
as on thg removal of Izzet Mehemed from the office of
Grand Vizier. The strangest reports are in circulation,
which do not merit notice. It is said there have been
tumults, attended with bloodshed, in Albania, and Servia
is not very tranquil. The order for enlisting all unmarried

men, has given great dissatisfaction ; for if the Servians
are not so well inclined to the Russians as people generally
believe, they, however, do not shew any inclination to fight
against them. The ice in the Danube begins to move, and
the navigation will soon be restored, which will be
equally favourable to trade, and to the military operations.
It is said the Sultan has left Constantinople, and gone to
Adrianople, but this does not seem to be quite certain.
BUCHAREST, Mtacm 2l.—Wounded soldiers daily ar-
rive here from the other side of the Danube, where hosti-
lities have recommenced, and frequent engagements be-
tween the advanced posts take place. In the Russian army
the greatest activity prevails, and it seems intended to pro-
secute the operations with a degree of vigour which may
lead to a speedy decision of the campaign. Several divi-
sions of infantry, with light and heavy artillery, have
marched against Silistria, to invest that place. Ghuirgevo
is now regularly besieged, and the thunder of the artillery
from that quarter is incessant. The possession of that
place is of great importance. Ghuirgero is the only for-
tress of consequence which the Turks still hold on the left
bank of the Danube, and its fall would bring with it
that of Rudschuk, on the opposite bank. Mean-
time large quantities of timber and other materials are
constantly carried through this city to the Danube, for the
purpose of throwing a bridge over the river, which it is
supposed will be near Ghiurgevo. The guards under the
command of the Grand Duke Michael, are expected to
enter the principalities, and form the reserve of the army ;
but this does not appear to be wholly decided.
General Count Pahlen has left Jassy and followed the
corps to Silistria. The magazines in Wallachia are daily
increased.

VIENItn, APRIL 2.—Metalliques, 91; Bank Shares,
1,097 f. (In the evening, 1,099.)
HallovEit, APRIL B.—The Court has gone into mourn-
ing fur six weeks, on account of the death of the Land-
grave of Hesse Homburg.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on re-
ceiving the melancholy news set out for Homburg to visit
his sister, the Landgravine.

STOCKHOLM, 31.—The Russian Lieut.-Gen.
Couat Suchtelen, who arrived here on Friday, had a long
private audience of his Majesty the following day. He
will stop here a fortnight, arid then as we hear go to Berlin
and Vienna. It is supposed that the journey during so
inclement a season, is not merely for pleasure. We have
no indication of the approach of spring. In the night
Reamer's thermometer is at 15 deg., and in the day at
12 deg. below zero.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 7.—Accounts from Rickavik,
in Iceland, of sth March, say the winter bad been so mild
there that they had hardly seen ice or snow. In the night
of 21st February a shock of an earthquake was felt in the
whole of Suderland ; on the following days there were
several slight shocks. Great damage was, however, done
to the buildings in the districts of Hecla. The fishery
had been very productive. There are now (April 4) 84
ships safely Anchored in the harbour of Elsinore, viz.
18 Danish, 49 English, five Prussian, &c. ; among them
are five from Messina and two from the West Indies. As
the harbour is crowded, several ships that likewise were
coming to seek shelter in the harbour were forced by the
floating ice to put out to sea again, and have sailed to the
German Ocean.

Bossy-HALLS, 4 o'cLocx.—There has been a decided
improvement in Wheat, although without any positive
advance in price. Our arrivals from the Upper Elbe
were by no means inconsiderable, and yet greater part was
readily bought for the French and English markets. A
rise in the price is in consequence expected. From the
Lower Elbe our supplies were less important, and not of
so ready a sale as these from the interior, Arrivals dur-
ing the week 896 lasts ; exportation, 950 lasts. Rye
firm in consequence of our own consumers having pur-
chased freely. Almost every other kind of grain remark-
ably heavy.
Weight. Rix dollars.
Dantzic Wheat 124 to 130 165 to 180
Pomeranian 125 to 132 150 to 165
Anhalt, white 122 to 132 165 to 175
red 118 to 128......160 to 166
Danish 120 to 130......125 to 150
Dautaic Rye llB to 122 74 to 78
Magdeburgh Barley 100 to 108 6O to 68
Upland Oats ....
Holstein Rapeseed _ —to 175 to 180

Funds of every description are looking up. The new
Polish Bonds are favourites with the speculators, and have
been done in Berlin, for money, at 53i Rth., equal to
about 107 here. Bargains have been made here at 106
for money, and 1041 on account.
End of April.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan 9314
Hanburgh-Russi_an Loan
Anglo-Ps ussian Loan of 1818 99%
Austrian Bank Shares 1115
Austlian 31etalliques 98%
A rail road between Bremen and Cologne is spoken of.
If the plan is carried into execution, Bremen will be able,
it is said, to transport foreign produce to the Rhine at a
considerably lower rate than that now charged over Holland.

The French Papers are far more barren of inte-
testing news than might be expected after the
recent defeat of the French Ministry. A few days,
however, will solve the mystery, whether the present
Administration can stand its ground, or whether the
Ultra-Tories can regain their power. The letters
from Lisbon confirm all the bad acts of Don MIGUEL.
The wonder is that such a monster should have
been so long endured. But the day of retribntion
cannot now be far off.

Singapore Chronicles have been received at the
North and South American Coffee-house of the
25th of November : they contain a Government no-
tification, that on and after the 13th of October, the
Honourable Company's Treasury at Singapore will
be no longer open to bills on Bengal and Madras.
They also recite a fresh instance.of the arbitrary mode
in which the power of Government is used in our
India territories and settlements against the Press,
and state that the Penang Register, which had
been conducted with so much industry, success, and
talent, had ceased to exist, and the license of the
Editor had been revoked, with an order to leave the
settlement in two months. This had been caused by
the publication on a separate slip of paper, of a para-
graph which had been erased from the proof
of the Register by the Censor, and thus the labours
and exertions of an individual are destroyed in
a moment, even without strict or technical legal
proof, which wa3 not required, the Government

having stated that they had the strongest grounds
for knowing that the gentleman considered as the
conduetor of the Paper in question, was bona fide. so,
which, however, was deiiied, A Government
Gazelle has been established in Penang, which is
to be considered the official Journal in future ; it is
published weekly, and will pass free in all the Indian
Presidencies. One number has been issued. This
gaper notices the death, at Macao, of GRAHAM
I..VhocErizig, Esq., of that settlement, a gentleman
highly esteemed and deeply lamented. He was one
of the earliest settlers.

The Commission empowering Lords Corn-
missionm to giye the Royal Assent to the Bill for Re-
moving Civil Disabilities from the Roman Catholics was
signed) by the Ktrzcz, yesterday morning, and was for-
yle,rgal from Winclsor to the bake of WELLINGTON.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to
town on Sunday evening, from his Majesty's palace, at
Windsor. His Royal Highness afterwards dined with the
Duke of NEWCASTLE, at his residence, in Portman-square.
There was a select party to meet his Royal Highness.
The Lpi!T? CHANCELLOR and the Earl of
ABERDEEN had interview; 117,41! the Duke of WELLING-
TON yesterday, at the Treasury.

Prince ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Ambassa-
Dlons. FALCK, the Ambassador froM the Nether-
lands, and Count de MoLrKe, the Danish Minister, had
interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday; at the
Office of the Serretiry of State for Foreign Affair;.

A deputation of Maltsters, headed by Mr.
WESTERN, the Member for Essex, attended at the Trea-
sury yesterday, and had a conference with the CttiorcEr..-
Lpa of the ExcilEgrE4.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, APRIL 13.--Wind S.W.---Arrived the
Harlequin, from Bombay, and Minerva, from Monte
Video, sailed the 22d of January, saw, on the 28th
of February, a vessel with her decks full of men,
and a look out at each mast-head.

FALMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Wind S.W. to W.-
Sailed the Duchess of Portland, for Antwerp.

COMES, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Rachel,Potter,
from Singapore ; and Jos'efa, Nicoll, from Angostura.

BRISTOL, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Hector, Furr,
from Cuba; and Nelson, Wear, from Barbadoes.
ELSINORE, APRIL 7.—The Sound is full of
drifting ice; there were thirty sail in sight of the
Roll this morning, but the ice going down with a
southerly current will oblige them to put to sea
again; about four sail got in this morning before the
ice came down, and will probably have reached
Landskrona.

The Edward, Protheroe, from St. Andrew'F,
N. B. to Tobago, was abandoned by the crew the
29th ult., in lat. 36. long. 61, being water-logged
during a severe gale four days previous.

TIIE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 01 CLocr.

The fluctuations during the account, which will
be finally adjusted to-day at the English Stock Ex-
change, have not been of sufficient' importance to
cause any alarm among the speculators; indeed the
market has evinced latterly a want of interest, and
strong symptoms have been shewn, by the leading
operators, of holding back for a time any further
engagements. Consols opened at 87i -a, and for
the May account, which takes place on the 26th, at
87,14, and an improvement of per cent. may be
stated, the present price being 87k, buyers, for
money, and 87:1 for May ; the settlement has oc-
casioned the Brokers and Jobbers to be rather in a
bustle, but otherwise nothing of importance has
taken place. Exchequer Bills, 57 9 pm.; India
Bonds, 49 51 pm.
The Foreign market is nearly in a stagnant state,
Brazilian Bonds are quoted at 53 ; Buenos Ayres,
20 1; Danish, 65 4; Russian, 96 ; Mexican,
20 ; and Portuguese, 42/ 31.
In Shares nothing new can be stated either in
business or prices.

Three per Cent. Consols, 87 ; Ditto, for Account,
26th May, 87/ ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 86i ;
Three and a half per Cent. Reducupd, 95i 96 ; Four per
Cent., 1826, 1031 4; India Stock, 231 2 ; Bank Stock,
2081 91 ; India Bonds, 49 51 ; Exchequer Bills, 57 9 pm.
FOREIGN.-Brazilian, 53 ; Buenos Ayres, 20 21 ;
Chilian, 15 17 ; Colombian, 141 15 ; Danish, 65 4 ;
French, 5 per Cent., 108 9; 3 per Cent., 78i 9; Greek,
14i 15i ; Mexican, Five per Cent., 16 17 ; Six per
Cent., 20 i; Peruvian, 101 11:1 ; Portuguese, 42i 31 ;
Russian, 96 ; Spanish, 91
MlNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 76 5 die. ; Brazilian, 39 41
pm. ; Bolanos, 35 25 die. ; Colombian, 241 231- die. ;
Real Del Monte, 125 135 per share; United Mexican, 291
281 die.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Up to the above hour there has not arrived the
least particle of news in the city, Consols remaining
the same, 871 buyers. Exchequer Bills are a shil-
ling per cent. on the premium.
The Foreign Stock Exchange is without any
alteration.

THREE 0' CL 0 CM,

Consols, 871.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

William Carr, aged 29, described in the calenJar as a
clerk, was placed at the bar, charged with uttering, on the
13th of November last, a forged order for the payment of
971. 65., purporting to be drawn by Messrs. Barclay and
Co., with intent to defraud Sir W. Curtis, Bart. and
others.

The prisoner is a person of most respectable appearance,
and was dressed in a very fashionable style.
William Blakesley deposed, th it he was a clerk in the
house of Sir William Curtis and Co. Messrs. Barclay
and Co. have kept cash at the banking-house of Curtis
and Co. for many years. The cheque now produced was
presented to him on the 3d of November last, which he
paid in three notes of 201. each, two of 10/. each, and
17/. 6s. in cash. Had some suspicion the following
morning that the cheque was a forgery, when he tried to
recall to his recollection the person that had presented it.
To the best of his belief, the prisoner is the man, but can-
not swear positively to his identity.
Mr. Frederick Barclay was a clerk to Messrs. Barclays
of Trinity-lane, and was authorised by them to draw
cheques; the prisoner was in the same employ for several
years, but left in 1822 ; he was aware that witness drew
cheques, and of his manner of signing them ; the cheque
now produced was not drawn by him—it was a forgery.
Mr. George Barclay proved that the cheque was not
in the baud-writing of any one belonging to their firm
authorised to draw cheques.
Several clerks in the Bank of England were examined,
to establish the necessary legal proof of the notes being
paid.
William Brakewell was a publican at Hoxton ; had
known the prisoner for some time—he lived in the neigh-
bourhood. Witness gave the prisoner, some time about
Christmas, change for tvio of the twenty pound notes now
produced ; witness's son was present, and wrote the pri-
soner's name upon them ; he went with Mr. Cope, the
Marshalman, to Gloucester-street, where the prisoner
resided.

Mr. Mackey, a publican, in Finsbury-place, took, some
time in Nov., the 101. note, now produced, from the
prisoner. lie marked his own initial upon it at the time.
Mr. Cope, the City-Marshal, went with Mr. Brakewell
to the prisoner's house. The prisoner was just leaving
home ; witness stopped him, and showed him a 201. note,
and asked him who lie took it of: he said of a young
man who was on board an East India ship in the docks;
but he believed he had sailed for the East Indies some
months. He did not know the name of the ship, but the
captain's name was Sadler, and the young man who paid
him the note was named Charles Wilson. Witness then
asked him if he had taken any other notes of /Charles
Wilson ; be replied that he had not. Witness then asked
him where Wilson lodged when in town; prisoner said, in
Canton-place, Qommercial-road,
By Mr. Cr.Aessorr.--,-The prisoner, at the time he was
apprehended, showed no reluctance to answer any question.
He was not aware that he had a counting-house in the

City,
Daniel Forrester, the officer who accompanied witness,
searched the prisoners lodging's. There was a chest of
drawers in the front room, in which he found a blank
cheque book of Sir Wm. Curtis and Co. The one now
prpducefl was the same.
Mr. Blakesley reeslled-,The pyisoper never kept cash
at the banking-house of Curtis and Co. Bankers never
gave cheque books only to their customers.
Sophia Isaacson lives at Canton-place, Commercial-road.
There was no other person in that place that has lodgers.
There was no person of the name of Charles Wilson lodging
there in November last.
Horatio Hardy, the superintendent of the Jerusalem
Coffee-honse, stated that she new neatly all thp Captains
of the East India 'ships, but did not know any Cliptain
sR.dler: There was o such name on their hooks.
• • .
John Rowe stated that he engraved the cheques for Sir
William Curtis and Co. He had examined the cheque
now produced, and compared it with the counter part of
the bank cheque found in the prisoner's drawers, he had no
doubt but that it was cut from that book.

Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE minutely recapitulated the
eyidenpe, Ff 4 the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.

gp, Thursday, JOHNLE9gE was hanged 4
Enniskillen for an attempt tonrurder Captain MAdIJIRE.
i
RuTLEDoy was the principal n the outrage committed last
yeai, in Tempo, where a number of Orangemen had the
head of a ram, painted red, and inscribed with a crucifix,
carried about the streets, in derision of the Catholic clergy-
man, the Rev. Mr. KELLY, and his parishioners.— cork
Mem= (i/e Chronic*.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) •
HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 98 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 0 to AS 6
Best New Meadow Hay 2 5 2 10
4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 0
Clover HayB 5, I:
Oat Straw £1 to £1 12 1 Wheat Straw 112
Middling and inferior Meadow Hay, which formed a considerable
part of the supply, 58. per load lower than last quoted ; in PricL4
of other kinds of Hay, as well as Straw, no alteration. A it°','
supply, and a very dull trade.

SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .C 2 5 to £9 1
Beat New Meadow Hay 2 15 3
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 9 0 4 "
Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs 0 .. ,d. Generally 3 0
Oat Straw XIB to -C1 LlO
12—Wheat Straw 1 12 1 '
iupply good, tratle dull, and prices barely stationary.