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London, England, 1842-12-05 00:00:00

11 12 and at Co.'s rs. 8 4 to 11 12 per bz. and• 1,3, N
1 ags of Baggah at sa. rs. 10 2 to 10 7, and at OPC's
10 3 to 10 9 ; 400 mds. of Pallowah at Co.'6
970 bags and 200 mds. of Jessore date, C,94 =-"l'r.„, •
8 8 ; and 200 bags and 6,294 mds. of Khau O(., A
3 oto 6 1 per bz, mid. • • •
EGYPT. , 4-
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 16.—The last four s
produced no novelty, either commercial or isiasikte,g):f
The Pacha is still at Mansoura, and nothing ce niy
is yet known of his intended movements, although it
is generally rumoured he will very shortly come to
Alexandria. Sales of produce by the Government, .
are still suspended.
The -French steamer brought General Ventura, of
Lahore celebrity, so long in the service of the late
Runjeet Sing ; he proceeds to India by the- Suez
steamer, and is the bearer of valuable present, from
Louis. Philippe to Shere Sing: The English and
Russian Consuls-General are still- in Cairo, waiting
the Paella's arrival there. The French Consul-Gene-
ral is also about to return to Cairo. The Austrian
Consul-General remains here. Cotton has advanced ,
within the last few days ; re-sales 'have been made in
the place at 94 dollars. Several cargoes of flax are
shipping to England, a novel feature in our trade.
Nov. 21.—The Pacha being still in the Delta, and
nothing certain known of his future movements, we
are without any political news' of any importance.

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MALTA: r
Nov. 27.—DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDfIDEiRANEAN'
FLEET.—In Malta Harbour : The Queen, 120, bear-
ing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir.E. W. C. It. Owen,
Commander-in-Chief; Cepon, receiving-ship, bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis, Superin-
tendent of Malta Dockyard ; Impregnable, 104,
Monarch, 84, Vanguard, 80, _ Snake, 16; Cyclops
steam-frigate, Geyser war-steamer, Prometheus and ..,
Alecto steam•packets. At Gibraltar : Rodney, 92, T.,"
Savage, 10, Lizard steam-tender, and Owen Glen- 4"
dower convict-ship. On their way to Malta : The "Ikih
Formidable, 84, and Polyphemus steam-packet, both
from Gibraltar. On her way to'Barcelona : The In- • ..,„a
constant, 36, from Malta, and the Locust •steam-
tender, on her way to England. At Genoa : The
Belvidera, 38. At Corfu : L'Aigle, 24. At Salamis : ~d,
The Howe, 120, bearing the flag.of Rear-Admiral Sir
F. Mason, second in command in the Mediterranean.
At Smyrna: The Indus, 78, Devastation war- °1
steamer, and Magicienne, 24. At • Constantinople t
The Stromboli war-steamer: - At Beyrout : The (boo
Vernon, 50, Scout, 18, and Vesuvius and Hecate NI
war-steamers. • At Alexandria : The Medea war- .titz
steamer ; and at Suda (in Candia), the Beacon and
Magpie surveying vessels.

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FALMOUTH. !,a1;14n“)
DEC. 3.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's
steamer Solway, Captain Duncan, arrived here to-
day with the mails from the West Indies and Mexico.
This vessel sailed from St. Thomas Bth ult., Bermuda
16th, and Fayal 27th. The Thames brought up the
Mexican mails to Bermuda, and she sailed again for
St. Thomas's on the 15th November. The steamers,

Dee, Trent, Forth, and Tweed, were at St. Thomas's
when the Solway left. This vessel brings about
$262,000 on' freight ; and passengers, Mr. Francis
Murphy, lady, and four children, Miss Smith, and Mr.
Loperina from Mexico • Messrs. de la Torre and Juan
Novo from Havannah; Messrs. F. and T. Grillett
from Venezuela ; Messrs. Mercantati, Isaacs, and Dr.

Lang from Jamaica ; Captain Maude, 33d regiment,
from Barbadoes ' • Captain Lolder, .sCth, from Trinidad,
and Lieutenant Brady, R.N., late purser on board the

steamer Medway. -
The news from Mexico by the Solway has been an-..
ticipated by the intelligence brought by the steamer.
Caledonia. A gentleman who came passenger from
the ITavannah, per Thames, to Bermuda, informs us
that on calling at Nassau on their,way up they found
D. Turnbull, Esq., late British Consul at Havannah,
still there. This statement contradicts what has been

going the round of the papers, that he bad been token
to Cuba as a prisoner.
The steamer, Great Liverpool, sailed yesterday with
the Indian mails; she had sixty passengers.

THE MEETINGS OF THE ANTI-
CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.

TO MR. EDWARD JACKSON, SECRETARY TO THE ST.

GEORGE'S AND WAPPING ANTI-CORN-LAW AftSO-
CIATION.
SIR,—It would have given me great pleasure to
have been present at the meeting of your Association
on Wednesday next ; but a necessary absence from
town will render it impossible.
As my contribution, however, to the cause, I will_
take the opportunity of directing your attention to a
system which has been let in motion against us, and
which must be promptly met. It is matter of noto-
riety, that agents of the Government are stated. to be
engaged in collecting words used at Anti-Corn-law
meetings, which may be produced from a'green hag
in the House of Commons as reasons for legislating
against the League. In this position of things, men
under the name of Chartists conic among you, with a
view to drop expressions which may be chronicled as
yours, and produced against you at the proper time.
It is the time of Castles and Oliver over again OK"
variations. We have hardly an 'English term for' thrl
precise office undertaken by this class of our opro:ut
vents; but " decoy ducks" is the nearest that oecunito
to me upon the moment. 04*
My advice to all meetings thus Circumstanced:4%h
that they should protect themselves by the saine„paitim
sures as they would employ against any other detsrtp-
tion of insidious assailants of their property or persoic.'.
No honest man intrudes himself into the assemblages
of people of decidedly
.opposite opinions ; if he has
strong convictions, he Impresses them in meetings of
his own. Catholics do not go, in the proportion of
one to a hundred, to disturb the assemblages of Pro-
testants, although avowedly held with open doors ;
nor does the Arminian force.himself lipon the Cal-
vinist, while a tabernacle of his own is ready fot the
dissemination of .his views. Neither you nor I ever
knew a man do this kind of thing without being paid
for it either in meal or in malt for a dishonpst pur-
pose. And as there is an extraordinary baseness in
the peculiar means resorted to in the present case; so
will it warrant extraordinary exertions for the abate-
ment of the nuisance.
•
I am, Sir, your obelient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.

Blackheath, Dee. 5,_1 842._
REASONS FOR THE REPEAL OF
_ _

THE INCOME•TAX.
(From the Leeds Moretti.) '
First—lhe termination of the Chinese war, and
consequent withdrawment of a large military and
naral force from China.

Second—The evacuation of Affghanistan, and a
great consequent relief to the finances of India, and
indirectly of England.
Third—The friendly treaty with the United States,
including the settlement of the North Eastern Boun-
dary question, 'and every other.point involving danger
of a national quarrel.
Fourth—The disarmament this year of the formid-
able fleet of France. •
Fifth—The great reduction of our army and fleet,
which these several events will:render safe and necessary.
Sixth—The good harvest of this year, which must
relieve the pressure on the Revenue and on the nation
always consequent upon bad harvests.
Seventh—The abundant produce of sugar this year
in the colonies, and. the increased importation that
must follow ' • which will materially augment the pro-
duce of the Sugar Duties.
Eighth—The expected increase in the import of tea,
' and consequently in the produce of the Tea Duties..
Ninth—The very great probability-of a revival of
trade, from the effects of cheap food, of peace, and of
the opening of the China market.
Tenth—The augmented produce of the Excise and
Stamp Duties and Assessed Taxes, which will nes-
sarily follow a revival of trade.
Eleventh—The receipt of upwards of fit millions
sterling as compensation from the Emperor of china,
which will go very far to relieve our Exchequer.
Twelfth—The hatefulness and oppressiveness ofthe
Income-tax, which the nation will have no motive for
endurin now that war and danger are removed on the
side of China, of India, of France, and of America.
We do not see how these reasons can be resisted by,
Sir Robert Peel, inasmuch as they nullify all the rea-
sons which he assigned for putting on the Income-tax.
That singular combination of causes, arising from
four successive bad harvests, a monetary crisis, falling
produce in our colonies, and a series of misunderstand-
ings with Foreign Powers, which increased our ex-
penditure and depressed our finances, being now all
removed, there remains no justification whatever for
continuing the Income-tax beyond the sth of April
next.

Upon a report laid before the King of the French
by the Minister of War, representing that the navy
had expressed a strongdesire to join with the army in
contributing, to memorials in honour of the Duke of
Orleans, and that a statue, similar to that which is to
be placed in the great square at Algiers should be
erected in some eligible spot in Paris; and the Minis-
ter of War having further represented to his Majesty,
that the Duke of Orleans, in one of his dispatches
from Africa, had declared his desire that the ancient
triumphal arch at Djimilah, the most complete of all
the remnants of Roman art found in that country,
should be carefully taken down, stone by stone, re-
moved to Paris, and there re-erected on one of its
most conspicuous sites ; the King, by a Royal onion-
'lance, dated' Wednesday, has decreed—first, that the
navy shall be allowed to join the army in the sub-
scriptions in question ; secondly, that these sub-
scriptions shall be applied in raising two equestrian
statues, in bronze, of the Duke of Orleans, one to be
• placed at Algiers and the other in Paris ; and, thirdly,
that the triumphal arch of Djimilah shall be taken
down and removed to Paris, in compliance lirtith thu
ree,ommentlation Of the late Priiace.