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London, England, 1829-04-16 00:00:00

RATES OF DUTY ON TOBACCO DURING THE YEAR ENDED
JAN. 5, 1829.

Per lb.

Unmanufactured, of any British Possession in America 2s . 9d.
of any other place 3 0
Manufactured, or Segars
6 0
Snuff'
WILLIAM IRVING,
Inspector General of Imports and Exports,
Inspector General's Office, Custom House,
London, April 9, 1829.

MALT.
RETURN of the Ourcasr of MALT chargeable with Duty upon the
Survey of luth of October, 1828.

I Amount of Duty.
Number of Bushels

J. EWBANK, General Accountant.
Excise °dice, London, April 4, 1829.

At the Glasgow Assizes, EDWARD MOORE
or MUIR, labourer, Stonelaw, was found guilty of the
murder of his wife, MART MacAvoir. Me was sentenced
to be hanged on the 20th of May, and hisbaily to be given
for dissection.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1829.

Mr. PEEL last night made his promised motion
respecting the state of the Police in the Metropolis,
and obtained leave to bring in a Bill with a view
to remedy the defects of the present regulations.
He supported his proposition by strong convincing
practical arguments, in the course of which he proved
that while throughout England and Wales crime
was on the decrease (though gradually), in London
and Middlesex it was rapidly and alarmingly in-
creasing, so much so that, according to the latest and
most accurate computation, one person out of every
358 was convicted and sent to prison for some offence.
The chief cause of such a dreadful increase originated
in the defective state of the Police, which wanted
unity, consistency, and vigilance. The Right Hon.
Secretary stated that the whole watch establishment
was placed under the control of different parishes,
in which certain people were responsible for that
watch. This, he observed, was a state of things
highly objectionable in every point of view ; and, as
events had proved, totally inadequate to the pre-
vention of depredation. It was manifest that
the great ground of efficiency was wanting—
namely, a united correspondence between the
several divisions into which the watch was necessarily
divided, by being under the controul of separate
parishes. He thought means might be devised of
introducing a united system, by taking away that
divided responsibility now attached to several autho-
rities, anti concentrating it in one, and that too at
less expence, arid with a much better prospect of
preventing the commission of crime, than the pre-
sent establishment. Of this there can be no doubt;
nor can any one be so competent to remedy the
pressing evils of the present Police Establishments
as he, who with so much accuracy, has discoVered
and detailed their defects. Mr. PEEL is a safe and
constitutional reformer, and not the less to be com-
mended because he likes to make sure of his ground.
before he attempts innovation.

The German Papers state they have received
news from Tripoli, in Barbary, that in December
last there were serious differences between the Re-
gency and the British Consul-General. They were
however adjusted by the timely arrival of a Dutch
man-of-war :

BERLIN, APRIL IS.

An extraordinary Supplement to the St: Petersburgh
Gazette of March 20, contains the official report of Gen.
Diebitsch on the taking Sizoboli by the expedition under
Admiral Kumany. The details arc the same as already
publipled in the Odessa Journal. The town is inhabited
entirely by Greeks and Christians of other nations.

The Russians, as soon as they were in possession, set
about repairing the damage done to the fortifications by
their cannonade, and strengthening them by additional
works.

ST. PETERSBURGH, APRIL 1.
On Sunday Te Deem was performed in the chapel of
the winter palace, for the taking Sizoboli.
His Majesty has addressed a most gracious Rescript to
Field Marshal Count Wittgenstein, en allowing him to re-
tire from the command of the army for the recovery of
his health. His Majesty thanks him for the indefatigable
zeal with which he has prepared every thing for the next
campaign ; and, however unwilling to lose his services,
allows him to retire, as he feels that it would be unjust to
require a further continuance of them. Hilt Majesty hopes
that, after some repose, his health will allow him again to
be serviceable to his country.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 11•

M. Dedel, his Majesty's Plenipotentiary to the Court of
Brazil, has arrived in this city with the treaty of Com-
merce which Le has concluded with the Brazilian Govern-
ment. _ _ _

Area 14.—The follewing are the reports in circula-
tion respecting what passed yesterday in the second Cham-
ber of the States General. It resumed its deliberations on
the questions relative to the Jury. After a debate which
lasted from eleven o'clock in the forenoon till eleven at
night (with the interval of an hour's adjournment from four
to five) the three questions were proposed as follows:
let. Shall the Jury be introduced in criminal trials be-
fore the provincial courts and other criminal tribunals ?
Negatived by 66 to 31.
2d. Shall the Jury be introduced in trials for abuses of
the liberty of the press ?—Negatived by 57 to 40.
3d. Shall the Grand Jury (Jury d'Accusation) he in-
troduced as distinguished from the petty jury? (Jury de
jugement.)—Negatived by 65 to 31.
The Chamber has therefore definitively decided against
the introduction of the Jury.
We learn from Tripoli in Barbary that in December
lest there were serious differences between the Regency
and the British Consul General. The English colours
were taken down and the English subjects placed under
the protection of the Consul of the Netherlands. How-
ever, in a few days, the arrival of. a Dutch man of war in-
duced the Dey to change his min I, and to accede to the
demands of the British Consul. The British colours were
in consequence again hoisted and saluted by 33 guns from
the fort and the citadel. The Dey made a present of a
sabre to Mr. Clifford Kocq Van Brengel, the Consul of the
Netherlands, as an acknowledgment for his mediation in
this affair.
It seems to be resolved upon that the Government will
not answer the very numerous and very important remarks
of the sections on the new project of the decennial budget,
and that it intends to run the chance of having it discussed
in its present form after Easter.
The answers of the Government to the observations of
the sections on the new project bf law relative to the press
have been received by the President ; it is affirmed that,

notwithstaiirng the -urgent desire that has been expressed
for some changes, very few have been made in it.
The report of the departure of Monsigneur Cappaccini
was unfounded.

It was reported on 'Change at Vienna, on the sth, that
the English Ambassador had left Naples to go to Constan-
tinople. This news had caused a rise in the Funds.

The French Papers contain little news. The
Journal du Commerce is chiefly filled with details of
the late earthquake in Spain, which, by all accounts,
has been most extensive and devastating in its
effects. Out of the ruins of Almoradi atone 470
bodies have been slug. The inhabitants of the
afflicted provinces are in a state of dreadful conster-
nation.

The Allgemeinc Zcitung to the 10th inst. men-
tions that the Pacha of EGYPT has yielded to the
urgent entreaties of the PoRTE, and will send
12,000 men to the Danube. The Egyptian fleet
was getting ready for sea, and IBRAHIM was shortly
expected at Alexandria

TRIESTE, MARCH 30.

A ship that left Alexandria on the sth inst., brings
word that the Pacha has at length yielded to the urgent
desire of the Porte, and will send 12,000 men to the Da-
nube : this corps of four regiments of regular infantry
and some regiments of irregular cavalry, must march
through Palestine, Syria, and Natolia.' The expense will
be enormous, and the Egyptian Government endeavoured
to keep the affair secret, in order not to hurt its credit.—
There is a scarcity of corn in the interior of Egypt, and
several cargoes of wheat have been sent from Alexandria
to Cairo. The Egyptian fleet was getting ready for sea,
and Ibrahim Pacha was shortly expected at Alexandria ;
but Mahmoud Pacha, lately appointed Pacha, of Two
Tails, will command the troops to be sent to the Danube.

The French Papers by the mail this morning
state that advice; of the 26th March, from Gibraltar,
mention that the Austrian squadron came to an
anchor six days ago in the port of Algesiras, and
had sailed again for Tangier, but the squadron bad
returned on the 25th, The Austrian Charge
d'Affaires, who arrived at Tangier on the 24th,
demanded of the PACIIA to give up all the Austrian
prisoners, as a preliminary condition to enter into
any negotiation, and prompt satisfaction was given
on that point, as the squadron has on board the pri-
soners; but with regard to what concerns Naples,
the Emperor of MOROCCO insists on having an annual
tribute paid. Orders have been given to M. VIAL,
Charge d'Affaires of Naples, to leave the town in
three days.

The most virtuous and praise-worthy intentions,
when ill directed, are not unfrequently productive
of pernicious effects, and when such become evi-
dent, those who are inclined to scoff and 'cavil at all
that is good, eagerly seize on the result as matter of
triumph ; this alone should restrain the over zealotis,
who carry their laudable exertions to indiscreet
lengths; and above all, the fair dispensers of cha-
rity, who exercise their benevolence in spheres
totally unfit even for their acquaintance, and expose
themselves to be the witnesses of scenes grossly.
offensive to their delicacy and modesty, and not un.:.
frequently to personal insult and even danger.
Some months ago a young lady of family, and
moving in the higher circles of our northern metro-
polis, was in the habits of extending her charitable
visits to the most forbidding haunts of poverty 'and
vice, to administer in person spiritual as well as
corporeal relief to the sick and suffering ; a practice
which we believe is much followed there as well as
elsewhere by the loveliest and the best, but which in
great towns more especially is constantly attended
by the most unpleasant results.
The lady in question had several times visited a
sick woman, who had been confined for some weeks
to her wretched pallet in a dark haunt of some of
the most degraded outcasts, in one of the narrow aid
loathsome alleys which still abound in the old part
of the city. On ona of these occasions, the
weather being cold and wet to a great degree, she
had spent an hour in conversing and reading the
Scriptures to the poor sufferer, and was rising to
depart when the husband of the invalid came in,
and after thanking her in repeated expressions of
gratitude for her kindness and charity towards them,
appeared particularly distressed at the depth of wet
and dirt which she had tome through that day,
adding that there was a back entrance which led to
the street by a perfectly dry passage, through which
he would gladly conduct her back. She thanked
him and was proceeding to follow, but the sick
woman said the way she came was the pleasantest :
the man repeated his assurance of the other being
preferable, and was leading the lady through the
back door, when the woman more vehemently re-
commended the other road ; the lady delayed her
departing step a moment to listen to her, but was
persuaded by the husband's assurance of the com-
parative comfort of his route, and was finally follow-
ing him, when the sick woman arose with frantic
eagerness, and, undressed as she was, wrapped her
coverlid around her, and seizing the lady by the arm,
dragged her out at the door by which she had en-
tered, and hurrying her with tottering but rapid
steps up the alley left her at the entrance to the
street, which was a frequented why, and begged her
never to return. The lady surprized, and under
some alarm that she had been trusting herself with
a mad woman, sought her home in a considerable
degree of agitation, and did not return to the squalid
abode.

A few weeks after, on the discovery of the late
atrocious murders in that town, and when numbers
were daily flocking to visit the scenes of them, then
exposed to the public gaze, the fair object of our
tale, from the descriptions she heard, was eurtous•to
be an eye-witness also of those dens of guilt and
horror ; she went with some relations, and on enter-
ing the fearful abode of the murderer Rare, she
found, with unspeakable horror, that it was the very
apartment she had repeatedly visited, and recol-
lected, with appalling sensations, how narrowly she
had escaped the death-gripe of the monster.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended April 10, 1829, made up from the Returns
of the Inspectors fa the different Clues and Towns in England
and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.

Wheat---703. 3d. Oats 225. 2d. I 34c 3d.
8ar1ey.......-338. 3d. I Rye --..... 348. Od. Pea5e«........315. Dd.
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES Of the Six WEEKS PRECEDING.
Wheat--- 68a. 3d. Oats 225. Id. I 8ean5........ 335. lid.
flarley..---328. sd. I Rye 36, sd Pea5e......, 35e. Od.

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Rd. I Oats 13s. 9d. 8ean5......-19s: 9d.
10d.1 Rye mI s, gd. pease yd.