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employment, and rendering it extremely un-
pleasant to inhabit lonely farm-houses; the
poor-rates are rapidly increasing ; the farmers,
particularly in the southern counties, where the
harvest was short, are turning off their hands in
spite of the parental calls and admonitions
of the landlords to employ as many in under-
draining, deep ploughing, and all manner of
improvements as possible; the winter is dreaded,
and farms can scarcely be let. " Mr. DAVID
BowLEy," we are told by the Wiltshire Inde-
pendent, at the Cirencester meeting, " stated,
that in a parish in this county (Gloucester)
an estate had been let absolutely rent free, the
tenant being induced by that means to pay the
rates and taxes."

" Since 1836," says Mr. W. R. GREG, in his
admirable " Prize Essay on Agriculture and the
Corn-law," " the manufacturing districts have
found employment and subsistence for at least
400,000 additional persons." Much of that
stream of population is now, as we learn from va-
rious quarters, (Mr. C.Woon, for instance,) flow
ing back on the land, or cannot flow from it. and
remains to flood with pauperism the agricultural
districts. Hence the terrified landowners are
everywhere becoming favourable to the altera-
tion, or the repeal of the Corn-law, and hence
the Times now raises its voice to swell the note
and share the honours of Anti-Corn-law agi-
tation.

It is our duty, at the same time, to put our
readers on their guard against the future machi-
nations of the landowners. We have no respect
whatever for these men in their legislative capa-
city, wherever their own interest is concerned.
They have now, by their conduct and their lan-
guage, assented to the opinion that the. Corn-
law has been greatly injurious to the nation.
The present condition of the tenantry and the
agricultural labourers convicts the law of all
that has ever been charged against it. The law
is now unanimously and universally condemned.
The sliding scale must be given up; but the
landlords will try to capitulate—they will not
surrender. They will demand a moderate fixed
duty, which is described to be a fixed injustice ; or
they will require to slide through a series of petty
frauds, lessening so much per year, into honesty
and justice. We %rill not now recapitulate any
one argument with which we have from time
to time, since 1837, as zealously opposed a fixed
duty, or a vanishing duty to lessen year
by year, as a sliding scale of duties; we
will content ourselves with saying that
after it has been so generally, not to say uni-
versally, admitted, that the Corn-law is inexpe-
dient and unjust, that it inflicts immeasurable
evils on the community, and is a violation of the
rights of the people, and the duties of the Le-
gislature, being equally iniquitous and impious,
it will not be the fault of the landlords, it will
be the blame of the public, should any rag of
the enormous legislative fraud be allowed to re-
main a single year. Universally denounced,
no part of it can be preserved without the public
sanction. In that case, and hereafter, the public
must and will bear the consequences; and if it
do not now oppose any and every modification of
the law, short of entirely sweeping it away, it
will not be justified, as at present, in throwing on
the landlords exclusively the blame of the misery
which any and every modification of so unjust a
law will be sure to inflict on society. Henceforth,
the public, enlightened as to the nature and
demerits of the law, not the landowners, will be
responsible for its continuance.

HAMBURGH MAIL.
HANOVER, Nov. 28.—The most important infor-
mation we have to communicate at this moment is the
prolongation for a year, i. e., to the Ist of January
1844, of the Convention concluded with Brunwick
on the 16th December last year, by which the Harp
and Weser districts of the Duchy of Brunswick con-
tinue in the Customs' Union of Hanover and Olden-
burg. It appears, therefore, that the accession of Ha-
nover to the Prussian Customs' Union is by no means
so near at hand as some persons have stated.
lIAMELN, DEC. I.—On Sunday, the 27th of No-
vember, Deputies from the towns on the banks of the
Weser arrived here. They had already met several
times in this town for the purpose of preparatory
discussion, on the establishment of steam navigation
on the whole course of the river, between Bremen
and Munden. On. the following day they met and
deliberated with some Deputies of this place. On
Tuesday there was a general meeting of all share-
holders, at which there were several from distant
parts, who took the most lively interest in this under-
taking. It was alleged in the general meeting that
the Government of the States on the banks have en-
deavoured to support the undertaking, especially
with respect to the improvement of the navigation of
the river and the building of bridges. It
appeared, also, that far more shares were subscribed
for than were mentioned in the prospectus, as re-
quired, for a commencement; and it might, therefore,
be hoped that they would be able to proceed rapidly,
and, in fact, many shares were subscribed for before,
and during the general meeting, at which many im-
portant resolutions were passed. Directors and sub-
Directors
chosen, and instructions were given to the
Directors, in conjunction with the Deputies of Mun-
den, Hameln' Minden, and Bremen, to procure two
iron steam-boats, to begin with, for the navigation of
the Weser.

FROM T lIE MAINE, Nov. 27.—Some journals
have lately published many reports, which give rea-
son to suppose that Hanover will shortly accede to
the German Customs' Union.

We are able to affirm, on good authority, that
these reports, if not unfounded, are premature.
Hanover will not join the Union till it is compelled
by absolute necessity, or till some change should give
a different turn to the intentions of that country. It
is certain that in the highest circles, the disinclination
to such an accession is stronger than ever, not only
out of considerations for England, but likewise on
pDlitical grounds. Among the commercial classes
hardly any, except the great manufacturers, are in
favour of the accession, because they suffer much by
isolation of the country, and the loss of the fairs of
Brunswick, Frankfort, and Liepsic. The retail
dealers, on the other hand, with few exceptions, are
opposed to it.

TURKISH FRONTIERS, Nov. 19.—(From the Sik-
Sian Gazette).—The latest accounts from Bucharest
state that a Russian courier had passed with great
speed through that city, with dispatches for General
Von Boutemeff, at Constantinople, and that a general
report was spread that the contents of those dispatches
relate to a protest of Russia against the last revolu-
tion in Servia. Letters from Bucharest say that
Prince Ghilca had not made the slightest objection to
give up the insignia, which was demanded of him.
Well-informed persons, however, say that the
jewels with which the insignia were adorned
have been long since employed by the Prince for
other ornaments, and that in their stead Bohemian
stones resembling those have been substituted.—
Hamburgh Papers, Dec. 6.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. g,
3i Actual Debt, 2.% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per coat.
P4ta
Amen Syndic,4% per cent (lt
71 775
Pstto, ditto, 2% per coat
Commercial Company, per cent 134% )J3
101
Exchange on London, One month..." .
Hamburgh, One month .....
Loan 1837, 5 per c0nt..... ................
Two months 12 15 _
1412)4120
,c1;11
Two months 35
Dutch Papers, Dec. 7.
BELGIAN FUN ..3.—Baussmts, Du. 7.
. . .

Actual Debt, 2% per Cent,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lo2i
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 93
Three per Cent.... .....
---Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto . 7IX
(1840) 103%
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 97
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 76
National Society —
Exchange on London (short) ,... .--
-Brussels Papers, Dee. 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 23.
ft* Cents. MetallMtlea ....... ..............- 109
.....•.. ....... II•••••••••••••••••••••••• 1001,
Three per Cents .. 76%
Bank Shares .. .... •••••••••••••11••••••••••• MN. 1620
illlganeine Zeitung, Dec. 3.
HAMBURGH I3ORSEN HALLE, Dec. 6.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 3 per Cents. .............. .1p...cr....1es 110 .....
Bank Shares 1640
Anglo.ltussian Loan lOB% 108%
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate ION
Inscription, lot series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series — -
Att. in Certificates -
New 4 per Cent. (1840) V% 96
%
Dutch Actual Debt, 236 per Cent..,...., SIU :51
Dittoper Cent.
Polish Bond;
.
New Tickets . ... ...
A n3lO-Danish Loan, '
3 per Coat. — :-,1 %
Spanish, New 5 p .r Cents
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.HAMEtt7RPIX, Dec. 6.-13 9, Two months 13 7'.
PETERSBURG, Nov 25.—..Chree months, 37% Pence.
Rum, Nov. 2ri. -Three Months, 37A.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, DEC. 3.
Bills. Money
Prussian English 130141,
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. ..... .. .- .. 10434 111,3 NI
1830, .1 . per C't;t.'lo2% 1, 2
Exchange on Landon _ ..... - - '
.. 6 24%
Prussian Slat! Gazette . lie. .. . i..

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WESTERN EYE DISPENSARY, ST. GuEs,—We
Understand that David Dundas, Esq., has ge-
nerously contributed five pounds to this excellent
dispensary through the medium of Hugh Houston,
Esq., one of the surgeons, and the founder of the
institution,