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amongst those for 411,1) a nut./vise of mutual advantage i FASHION.A BL E I-IN TE LLI GEN CE.
may be consider, il ~..,, ..;. i.,,,e-ii,:e. I
The value of the le ~de -, ~,,ed from 4 oal-pits and mines ! ARRIVALS.
The Connotes.. Dinwagen of Mountuorri, and Lidy line Antics.
ley, in Wviriliann ~laa,,,l7c,l.s.obrcd Henry fhyone, in Piccadilly ;
in general is tietuton Ine•I ln., cireturn-t daces 'wanly, if not
altogether, similar tar th,i.e * which reg:ll.nte taut won th of Earl Jernivii', in t:i""..l, James's-square, ac.,reet,; from,c Brightonrin iy .11,4>cni,,CtiTiial
Weld Forester, in Sackvil:(;-
the products of the s4,il. it differs in *different situations,
cAxi,irlyEllis:ilo. licir.i..i-int,i-ria,..rs,nl,eins ; Lady Charles Somer,et, in Georgina
as equal quantities of labour will seldom return t quid re- i
si it,
rr se L• tt , ; in
i,,,(63 iv. o sal:toor - t4l u
ca 1,;(,7 Co i; n -
sults. If we examine the qualities of the pits in tie north tess of AlboOl.nr la, inn Cork_
stcroniWiLamriti7nlnattserton, Bart. end
• y Cnn,,ri.,n to Greville and Mr Grnaville, in .3-n'at‘'o'grgiet: with any degree of attention, we shall see that they em- ! Islraec,ne,; Lai
brace every possible grade of variety. Some are not only i Lady,' in S'e7rii`no-us-uplraec&
Surrey; Mr. and Mrs. Lascelles Iremonger,nlB at gei?rrnsinuisne
easily worked, but possess seams of coal, rich and abund-
iuy in Seymour-place, from
LLord Gambier's, near Windsor;
ant ; others again, though riot so rich in mineral, yet en.
lf)aMmresz..
Haoitiedl,theliolflodnstreet, from
advantages in point of situation, rendering the transmission
,'
,clira,eilnainbdeti, tihnle) Fl.e( v' . Caotlin Clnifo'shell
Grafton-street, from Essex ; Col. Dawson Dames of their produce to market easy and inexpensive. A third
in dpil4clciasilif,;lcrti laninStaannldiplsstreit, May-fair; Capt. Sullivan
class may be found, to which all these advantages are
Major Armstrong 'li
n St. Jam es's-siree" torLpitlnGßri°usnlnlri;ork place.
denied ; the mineral they contain is neither good nor
ym;issMAjtozrroNyaftr,ep, .e in Pall-mall;
stnrir-et ;
cAdsmoiral Sir Thomas Trowbridge, in Jermy;n-strect abundant, and from their situation involves a considpeurabl;ilce
LiudntAessno :Li ii7ngFtoieneaaiiirlii
expense in carriage. It is obvious, Sir, that the
Cavendish-square; Major Collier, in iiegenHt-storreicettta-sgae.ent;
interest will he consulted, if the supply of coals necessary for
alti,s,eiras.ntligveit„ in rark-place; the Earl and Countess Major
interest will he consulted, if the supply of coals necessary for
ansl Mrs. Harvey, ins I'ark-place- the Earl and Conntess of
the consumption he, as long as it is possible, drawn from the Mivart'sat. Hotel, Lower Brook' and Davies-
pits of the first class. As the natural price is determined streets, from Imre'll'i , the Hon. and Itev. E. S. Capel and family,
attledi(t.ote,
.from Hertfordshire; Hon. Wm. Keith, at ditto,_ from
by the cost of production, it will of course be low, for iatioenti hlajor and. 111,rs. Elliot, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-
a great quantity of produce will be procured by a small street,t from Hastings; Sir Charles Hulse Bart. AI. P 1• at his
expenditure of capital. The owners, indeed, will not be able house in New Builingten-street, f i • -• P.
front his scat, . Breamore
House, Hants.
to obtain extravagant profits; they will, however, get that 1:e I \LorArlf
DAc 'cl'esC 71E0,1,, 11‘' UCH A 111.
return which is general on the employment of mercantile Earl of Hereford,A
,nciinuct,t,ctizn, , Air.i.Rciclaird
capital throughout the country. Let the demand be en- and Lady Philtippo, General and Mrs.. 0
win, Rev. Wall, Captainaii R. Vassal', Messrs. F,',Clijolfiel(dt, Bald-
creased to any extent by the operation of any assignable
,Doveten, A.
causes, still, if those pits can adequately meet such a de- fiailey,''Pettatt7'l:.flefloysel, Stri'ckliar'n'icrulrjj• B.
11.oxliam, Gre-
gory,- Maxwell, Lane, two Mortlock • 'l'l '-e' s, . rs. Jackson, Misses
mand, at the same cost of production; no enhancement in
the price of coals can ever take plate. In such a state of Cary, Hallitt, S. Hallitt, &c.
ARRIVALSrI, AT /!‘1111.1?JoH,TON.
the trade not a single bushel of coals would ever be sold Colonel Taylor,
from the inferior pits, or rather, their existence would be Williams, Mr. yland, Mr:lreton, Mr. Joyce,
Air. 1111enen1 e I.:yo
10 Miss
iiiinigsh,iNilrlr.iaind Miss Mackintosh, Colonel Gascoyne, Mr. T Colones
-el altogether unknown. With prices thus at their natural -
rate, a coal pit, however rich, would nut furnish the means Rees,. 111. r. aenrinllsi'slr.
cally.srhea,,,M.Ki.r. Agin
Brown, Lady
Dr. and°Mr.
and Hon. Miss Byron, Lord Ray, Sir \V. Atidy, i
Bart. Noelil
c. Byron,i
of realizing an enormous fortune in the lapse of a few
Issler,s:iltr/trec.
ate alnidr. family, Messrs. Cox, Mr. liredell, Messrs.
years, without even a moderate degree of caroor attention.
Ma.nglilesp,kittiirs,
Fllal,rc.klecty it;;.. Captain.and
i ..1:,,i0,1 1 ope,
Cheapness, however, would cause a great encrease in the Mr. Mrs. and Miss
gall, Captain White, Dr. Copland, Mr. Fawkes,
Mr. 11fou'ld-D3ln. quantity sold, and the aggregate of profit might even and Mrs. Firmin, Mr. Robbins, Mr. Oliver, Mr. S ttl - r.
u ey, &c.
be greater than it is under the present system ; but such ARRIVALS AT .
profit could only be obtained at the expence of no inconsi- The Earl of Huntingdon, the Earl BATH.anountess of 11
cashel and family, Loid Saltown, Lord and Lady DunstainMet,
derable portion of pains and attention on the part of those
who thus employed their capital. But the owners of the iTyr,Ast?rdrjeawiiißesar(laraarnd
.Stielliliotntague and Lady Georgiana Cholm-
ekreast LLectahilayridivksCO'onlongsaand
inferior pits have pointed out a readier and less laborious Mrs. Wilson, Grant,"Porbes, Lieut.-General
iAsley, Gardiner, Leslie, Knox and family ; 11aptIrss
road to wealth to their more fortunate brethren ; they have Haynes, Mrs' ii4,l,irng,anlta.NiirsJuviiieiseo; Rev. Messrs. Lier,
discovered the advantage of attaching the fox's tail to the Buckle,nes' gaNc-'crcku- ° ucto<l,e lti. Messrs.ir ,
extremity of the hide of the lion. Only reduce,. say they, -Rae, Barton, Coombs, Charlton', Lawrne'ncle'
the supp!y or coals from the best pits below the demand, Voowi,s; Voaniell.lolinray, Mills, Peet, Ford., Rawson, Somerset,
AiLll,lnitci‘nVisz,liitilbodgils, Townshend,
and the price will rice to such an height, as will, while it Hampden, i:Var'd, itgotilied;
Roberts, Buncombe, !Holmes; Calthorp, Ca'spenartev
ce,y,FNeVairnithiti,
enables the inferior pits to be worked, allow an enormous Abdcams,),Batond, Beales, Spicer, Hepburn and family, Buns-
profit to be male by all who are the lucky possessors of combs,
Barton,Robertson ;. Mrs. Hogg, Eldridge, Par-
sons, 'l'igatha,Tii' 7?g' those of the first class. Rawlins, B Wilkinson, Buckworth, Green-
hill, Bridgwater, Johnson ,- Misses Herbert, Thompson, Ed.
The object then of the original contrivers of the " Vend" Phillips, Parish, Wilkins, Stovin, Johnson,
sat
has been thus to raise the natural price of coals; and that moods,
Howard, Parsons,'Watts, Preston.—Bath Chronicle, Feb. 19.
they have achieved their purpose by limiting the supply in
certain quarters, is evident even from the spewing of your
correspondent himself. If such a method has not been
adopted, what meaning can be attached to passages like
these contained in his letter 2—" One half of the collieries
is equal to the production of the quantity of the coals re-
quired—many of the great collieries have been reduced
from a vend of 80 to 100,000 chaldrons a year to half
that quantity, merely for the support of establishments
which are like leeches feeding on the vitals of the coun-
try." Now, Sir, what is this but a limitation of the
supply? These are the pits which, from their fertility,
would be able to furnish coals at a rate reasonable to the
public, and at the same time remunerative to their owners.
If an additional portion of capital were invested in them,
which it is the object of the combination to prevent, and
they were made to yield their former quantity, the price of
coals would soon fall and those leeches and incubi, of whom
your correspondent so loudly complains, would cease to
exist. Neither is it invariably true, tas your corres-
pondent asserts, that the " Jobbers" have no interest in
limiting the supply of coals, " because the more
they sell the better for themselves." It is a matter of
familiar observation, that when a set of traders
have, by the aid of a monopoly, been enabled to
regulate the supply of any particular commodity in the
market, a smaller quantity of the article in question
will often bring a greater money value than could be ob-
tained for a more considerable quantity, if trade were left to
itself. Thus the Honourable East India Company, in
mercy no doubt to our nervous system, are graciously
pleased to allow us about 20 ounces of tea per head
annually. - The quantity of tea consumed yearly in the
British Islands may perhaps be estimated at 25,000,0001bs.;
if the trade to China were thrown fairly open there is every
reason to suppose that this quantity, in no great length of
time, would. be doubled ; yet, if we be allowed to judge
from the price at which tea is new selling on the continent,
we may almost to a certainty conclude that 50,000,000 lbs.
would not fetch a greater money price than the
25,000,000 lbs. do at the present moment. And in truth
in all trades, whether under a monopoly or in a state of
freedom, every individual engaged in them, in order that
his own sales may be carried to the greatest possible extent,
is interested in repressing those of his neighbours ; the
difference is, that when trade is free, the principle of com-
petition is a sufficient guarantee to the public for protec-
tion against imposition, while in monopolies, either actual
or virtual, the facility of combination renders competition
inoperative. Your correspondent, I 8111 afraid, has con-
founded the particular interest of each individual "Jobber,"
with the one which these gentlemen have in common,
which is their bond of union. They have a common inte-
rest, which the Vend is intended to promote, in making
the basis or general supply front the Tyne and Wear as
small as possible, but when this basis is once fixed and
ascertained, each individual " Jobber" is interested in secur-
ing the greatest amount of it he can for his own share.
But the community of Newcastle and Sunderland, and
of the Coal districts round those towns, are beginning to
feel the evil consequences which must of necessity ulti-
mately arise from this combination. They now see clearly,
that it can only be by furnishing good coals at a cheap rate
(which can only be effected by putting an end to the
" Vend") and by giving a quick dispatch to ships, that
they can hope to retain that exclusive coal trade, which
has so long flourished amongst them. Even the proprie-
tors themselves are becoming sensible of this; they are
aware that the string has been stretched too far, and they
are apprehensive that it may break. As your Correspon-
dent " Phile-Nauticus" observes, " the liiih price of the
monopoly coal has afforded both the means and the in-
ducement to construct a railway from Stockton to the
coal distakit lying inland from that port, from whence con-
siderable quantities of very good coal are now sent, super-
seding in many places the coal formerly procured from the
Tyne and Wear." It is the effects and dread of this oppo-
sition which have troubled the monopolists, and thrown the
apple of discord into their Council Chamber ; this it is,
which makes the great Leviathans of the " Vend" anxious
to back out of the scrape, and which is slowly, though cer-
tainly, working its destruction.
Whitby, Feb. 7, 1829.

The Duke and Duchess of Clarence left their
residence in Bushy Park yesterday morning, and came to
the King's Palace, at Kensington, where the Duchess
alighted, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Sophia; the Duke proceeded to town and went to attend
a meeting of the Committee of the Scottish Hospital. His
Royal Highness, accompanied by the Duchess, returned to
Bushy in the afternoon.

The Lords of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy
Council had a meeting yesterday morning at the Privy
Council Chamber; thole present were the Lerd President
of the Council, the Vice-Chancellor, the Judge of the Ad-
miralty Court, and the Right Hon. Henry Ilobhouse.
The following cases of appeal were gone into before their
Lordships :—"Ex parte—v. Belisario," from Jamaica ;
" Bucker v. Hamilton," from Demerara; " De Best v.
APlntosh," from Bengal; " Waters, sen. v. Young, sen.,"
from Prince Edward Island. Mr. Buller attended the
meeting as clerk to the Council.

A deputation from the West India Dock
Company, headed by the Chairman and Deputy-chair-
man, waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at the Treasury, and had a long conference with the
Right Hon. Gentleman.

The Duke of Wellington entertained the
Cabinet Ministers to dinner yesterday, at his residence in
Downing-street.

Despatches were received yesterda7 at the
Colonial Office from Sir James Kemp, the Governor of
the Canadas ; and from the Hon. General Ponsonby, the
Lieutenant-Governor of Malta.

The Bishop of Salisbury visited the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.

Mr. Foster, our Minister to the Court of
Turin (on leave of absence), has arrived in town from
Brighton.

Viscount Melville is recovering from his in

disposition.

It is rumoured, we know not with what truth,
that the Duke of Cumberland will, after all, not be found
among the Parliamentary opponents of the measures to be
brought forward in Parliament for the relief of the Roman
Catholics.

It is confidently rumoured that the Duke of
Wellington has got the Proxies of three Royal Dukes,
who were heretofore unfriendly to the Roman Catholic

claims.

Sir John Sewell, the Chairman of the Com-
mittee to oppose Mr. Peel's re-election for Oxford, was
once un unsuccessful candidate for the University himself.

OXFORD, FEB. 16.—Much, indeed, did I
marvel, when, having scarcely put my feet within this
most Protestant and most orthodox University, I saw a
group of lugubrious and black-breasted gentlemen, from
among whom I heard such words as these :—" Indeed,
how could he help himself? What was he to do?" " A
man of most splendid talents, too." " Ay, and possess-
ing, as he tells us, so much information, of which unofficial
persons can know nothing." " I shall give him my vote and
have told my son to come hither and do likewise." I found
the discussion was about Mr. Peel, and inquired if he were
likely to be returned. ".0 yes, Sir, there was a great storm
and bustle at first, and we very angry; but Mr. Peel's
party is very strong in thkUniversity." "I take it, Sir,
you are converts." I learn, on inquiry, that the first im-
pression was that the Ministry would go to the dogs; for
having so " outraged" the Protestant feeling of England ;
but, as that is not quite so certain now—

" A change comes o'er the spirit of their dreams."
'Tis a capital thing to kick up a rout
With a Minister who is marching out ;
But a burning shame and a deadly sin
To quarrel with one who keeps snugly in.
'Tie proper in " learnede clerkes" to frown
On the rash young man" who is tumbling down;
But if he won't stumble, and if he won't fall,
To utter a word is the devil and all.
Will Mr. Peel then be returned for Oxford ?—That is
Lard to say—

NAUTICUS.

`VAR.—I have been as enthusiastic and joy-
ful as any one after a victory ; but I also confess that even
then the sight of a field of battle has not only struck me
with horror, but even turned me sick ; and now that I am
advanced in life, I cannot understand any more than I
could at fifteen years of age, how beings who call them-
selves reasonable, and who have so much foresight, can
employ this short existence, not in loving and aiding each
other, and passing through it as gently as possible; but, on
the contrary, in endeavouring to destroy each other, as if
time did not himself do this with sufficient rapidity
What I thought at fifteen years of age I still think ; " war,
And the pain of death which society draws upon itself, are
but organized barbarisms, an inheritance of the savage
state, disguised or ornamented by ingenious institutions and
false eloquence."—Louis Buonaparte.

But if a little time be given,
Just for the working of the leaven,
As now-a-day's conversions jump,
I'll pledge my credit for the lump.
In these days, of degeneracy every coming wonder is
greater than the last. Ere long a genuine ripe and hot
Anti-Catholic will be at a wondrous premium, and, when
discovered, will be made as much of as the man who had
been sleeping 200 years in the ice. What with the sweet
enticement which a pro-Catholic Administration can offer
on the one side, and the sour terror which one Mr. O'Connell
brandishes on the other, not a ragamuffin will be left in
the field. Corruption is entering and pervading all sides.
I saw a Bishop in consternation,
REPEATING a scrap of erroneous Latin ; . .
Thinking about a "new translation,"
And asking what was the Greek for "ratting."
And I have seen many other sights.
I saw a man with a shovel-hat,
One a ho knows full well what's what !
" Sir," he said, " among my fancies
" I've been boring o'er Saint Francis,
" And much light—nsuch light—l've had;
" Really 'tis not half so bad—
" Truly, Sir, I can't but feel
" (My respects to Mr. Peel)
" Oftentimes, dear Sir.! and long,
" I have done the Papists wrong;
" And I'll hasten to repair it—
" For I know not how to bear it."

The following circumstance occurred a week
or two ago in Edinburgh. A respectable merchant in that
city, with whom we happen to be slightly acquainted, is
in the habit of supping early in company with his son—an
artist of very considerable promise. While the maid was
laying the cloth, the father asked his son if he had got a
box made for a certain picture. The youth replied in the
affirmative, and produced the article, when the other at
once said, " that won't do, and you must lose no time in
getting a far larger one," with other remarks to the same
effect. The maid looked queer, though she said nothing,
and when her master told her to go out and bring a loaf of
new bread, she departed silently and with her usual alacrity.
In going down stairs she met a doctor who is in the habit
of looking in on her master when he happens to visit
his quarter of the town ; and this accidental circumstance
alarmed her so much, that in place of going her errand,
she immediately repaired to an aunt's house, who lives
in the most extended suburbs of Edinburgh. Though the
party awaited long for their loaf of bread, no maid ap-
peared; and next day, when the merchant's son went to
inquire after the fugitive, he found her sitting with her
relative at breakfast, and in a perfect fury at the tremend-
ous danger to which she had been exposed. " They
might say what they liked, but she kent weel eneuch what
they meant—but the Lord Advocate wad hear o' the
business; your faither said the box was ower wee to haud
me, :and wanted a bigger ane, an' it was a God's Provi-
dence that I met the Doctor on the stair, wha, nae doubt,
had come to help to Burke me." With great ado, the
girl was persuaded to return to her service, but before the
'lapse of three days, she took some other alarm, and was
finally discharged.—Dumfries Courier

Depend upon it a great many illustrious and eminent
meu, who, like Dr. Phillpotts, have poured out and ex-
hausted their phials of wrath and bitterness on the devoted
heads of the Catholics, will fill up the said phials now with
the holy oil of brotherhood and charity, and all the gentle
affections and the milk of human kindness. lam almost
disposed to plug my ears with lead, and to cover my eyes
with Burgundy-pitch plaster, when I hear these Oxonians,
these men of whom I should have thought they would have
sung Penns of ecstacy if for orthodoxy V:ey had been led
to martyrdom—when I hear them, " O tell it pot in
Gath!" blaspheming Lord Eldon—

" All they have done," said a clerical fop,
" All they have done is wise, and well done ;
" But why don't they give a quieting sp
" To that busy, barking, bull-dog E—n ?
" Long did the old cur pick his bone,
Fast and firm to his manger sticking—
" Why won't he let us dogs alone
" When we turn round to get our picking ?"
And, indeed, I did not know what to say for the late
Lord Eldon (he is dead, I see, according to the Saturday
speach of Alr. Holcombe, Protestant Honorary Secretary
pro tempore.) Happy distinction ! The late Lord Eldon
never grumbled nor growled in tne days of old, except
when any one treated a ministerial measure with rudeness.
I do not think this is very Christian of him, nor in the
" doing-as-you'd-be-done-by" temper. But you shall hear
more of Oxford politics to-rnorrow.—Morning Paper.