The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-15 00:00:00

CUSTOMS DUTIES ACTS.

On the Motion of Mr. G. DAWSON', the Order of
the Day for the Committee on these Acts was read.

The House then went into Committee on these
Acts.

The Resolutions were agreed to, the House re-
sumed, and the Report was ordered to be received
to-morrow, (tf,s day).

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The other Orders of ti-e Day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Ono
o'clock.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur of Tuesday, May 12.)

BUCHAREST, APRIL 13.—1 t is reported that the
garrison of Ghiurgevo made another sally on the 15th
of this month, attacked a Russian corps, and took
six pieces of cannon. This news is contradicted by
the Russians. However, all travellers coming from
that country agree i❑ the truth of this fact.—Cuurier
of Peace and War.
LISBON, APRIL 25.—(Private Correspondence.)—
" The Government has received dispatches from
Paris, which appear to have greatly alarmed.it, for
at no time since the return of Don Miguel have the
arrests been so numerous.

" Yon, undoubtedly, are acquainted with the de-
parture of the French frigate, the Thetis; but what
you are, probably, ignorant of is, that this ship was
scarcely two leagues outside of the bar when the
police visited all the French resident in Lisbon who
had any connection with the officers of the Thetis.
Another cause of alarm to the subjects of his Most
Christian Majesty is, that since the arrival of the dis-
patches which I mentioned above, the Monks have
declaimed in their sermons against the French, and
accused their Government of being the enemy of the
Government of Don Miguel, and of doing every
thing to embarrass it."
(From the Gazette de France, dated May 13.)

PARIS, MAY 12.—0 n the 11th March a horrid
attempt at assassination was committed at Alexan-
dria, on the person of Captain Gibbs, an English-
man, of the merchant brig the Telegraph, which
was just ready to depart for Smyrna. The assas-
sins are four Maltese, relatives of a young woman of
the same nation, whom the Captain had brought
from Smyrna, and to whom he had promised a pas-
sage back. They attacked Captain Gibbs just as he
was preparing to go on board, and stabbed him in
more than forty places with stilettos and knives. If
these wretches did not kill him on the spot, it was
because they believed he was dead. However, he
is still alive, but in such a state that it is impossible
to save him..

The four assassins—who are the father, the uncle,
the brother, and another relation of the Maltese
woman—are arrested, and proceedings are com-
menced against them.
_ _

FRENCH-. FUNDS, MAY 12. —Rentes Five per Cents.
108 f. 107 f. 95c. 108 f. 1081. 10c. 5c.; Three per Cents.
78f 95c. 79f. 79f. sc. 79f. 78f. 95c. ; Bank Actions,
1865 f.

PAUL PRY AND HIS WIFE.—We hear
that an action is expected to be brought at the next
assizes against a tradesman of this town, who with his
wife amused themselves by listening to a conversation be-
tween a young lady of respectability and an acquaintance
in the adjoining house, and then spread tales to her dispa-
ragement.—Brighton Gazette.

EXECUTION.—JOHN BAILEY, convicted at
the late Assizes of passing forged 101. Bank of Devises
notes in Bath, underwent the awful sentence of the law at
Ilehester on Wednesday last. On Tuesday afternoon his
wife had an interview with him for two hours, and ti-e
parting was most affecting. He stated that he was the
happiest man in the gaol, and told Mr. HARDY that he
was fully prepared to meet his doom. He acknowledged
that he had passed 27 of the notes, and that he only meant
to pass three more. He said he thought he should be able
to walk to the drop without assistance, but requested that
some one might be near to support him if necessary. The
melancholy procession then moved forward, the culprit
keeping his eyes shut the whole of the time until he as-
cended the drop. At a quarter past eleven the drop fell
and closed the existence of the unfortunate man. The real
name of this offender, we understand, war WILLIAM
Harms Sxrar. He was a young man who bad beenvery
respectably brought up, and was a traveller for a commer-
cial-house several years, bat latterly had been much re-
d uced.—Plymouth Jounial.

LONDON,
FRIDAY ESTNING, 111AY 15, 1829.

Mr. WHITMORE brought forward his motion last
night for a Committee to enquire into the trade
between Great Britain, India, and China. In doing
so he entered at length into the evils of the present
system ; he satisfied the House not by bare asser-
tion, but by facts—those stubborn things, which,
like the god TERMINUS of the ancients, are fixed
and immoveable—that the Company's existing
monopoly was fraught with blight and ruins to
every branch of commerce ; that it was bad
in theory, rotten in practice, and was founded,
matured, and perpetuated by selfishness. One fact
alone will speak volumes. "By the returns," said
Mr. WurotottE, " it will be seen that there was a
regular falling off in the trade from 1795 until the
trade was opened, and that from that period there
had been a rapid increase. In 1795 the official value
of the exports to India was 2,500,000/. ; from 1796
to 1811 it averaged 2,300,000/.; from 1802 -to
1807, 2,100,0001. ; from 1808 to 1812, 1,000,000/. ;
from 1814 (the returns for 1813 were burned in the
Customhouse) the period when the private trade
commenced, to 1819, 2,100,0001.; from 1820 to
1825, 4,000,0001.; and from 1825 to 1827,
5,800,000/.—(Hear.)—The House would observe
that during the first period, the time of absolute
monopoly, there was a regular falling off, and that
during the latter period, when the private trade was
in operation, there was a rapid increase." This
plain matter of fact statement wholly falsifies the
assertions of the East India Company, who, when

they last applied for their charter, assured the
House that the opening of the trade, or, in-
deed, any approximation towards a free trade,
would not in the slightest degree benefit the
commercial relations of either country : indeed
they did not imagine that one extra ton of goods
would be sold in consequence. Now how stands
the fact ? It is simply this; that the partial—the
very partial—opening of the trade to India, has
already benefited the country to an extent greater
than would have been imagined possible at
the time such liberal concessions were made.
Arguing then of the future by the past, we
have the first and most legitimate principles of com-
moe sense on our side, when we assert that a still
further clipping of the restrictive system will be at-
ttrided with a corresponding benefit, first to our
commerce, secondly to our administration of India,
of whose intellectual, moral, and mercantile re-
sources, we at present know comparatively nothing.
Our policy hitherto has been to prevent British
subjects from settling in India, excepting in the
Presidencies. By this system we have diligently
fostered ignorance and prejudice, to the as diligent
discouragement of civilisation. Surely it is time to
adopt a wiser and more enlarged policy. The ill
effects of monopoly have already sufficiently deve-
loped themselves; it is a foul and ravenous harpy
that devours the first fruits of commerce ; a mad aria
that blights by its pestilential influence all the
healthiest energies of the country.

We are glad to find that Mr. WHITMORE'S
motion last night, though negatived without a
division, was met in a cordial and becoming spirit
by Ministers. Mr. GOULBURN'S reply was, so far
as it went, just ►what it should have been. "He
did not oppose enquiry ; he wished it to be full and
effectual."

The Hamburgh Papers announce that the Russian
army will be immediately put in motion, to com-
mence the operations of the campaign. They add,
that the news of the return of the French and Eng-
lish Ambassadors to Constantinople has caused
great joy among the Mussulmen at Belgrade. The
confidence which prevails there is remarkable :

HAMBURG FI, MAY I2.—BORSEN HALLE, Foua
o'c:tom—The funds have recovered in some measure
from their late decline, owing is the improvement in Lon-
don and Berlin. _ _

The relations between England and Russia form a sub-
ject of interesting speculation to the politicians of our
Exchange.

End of May.

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. -
Anglo-Russian Loan 93%
Ha.nburgh-Russian Loan
Anglo-Piussian Loan of 1818 991.
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares 1102
Austsian Metalliques 97li
VIENNA, MAY s.—Metalliques, 97k; Bank Shares,
1097 4-sths.

ZANTE, APRIL 19.—The town of Lepanto has now
likewise surrendered to the Greeks. Admiral Mullis has
concluded the capitulation and conveyed all the Turks to
Arta. The siege of Missolonghi will now be prosecuted
with vigour.
CORFU, APRIL 22.—1 t is reported here that an inti-
mation has been made by the lonian Governmei.t to the
Greeks that they must put an end to the blockade which
they lately announced of the town of Prevesa, and of the
coast to the north of it as far as Murto, at the entrance of
the channel of Corfu.
Sr. PETERSBURGH, APRIL 29.—According to authen-
tic accounts that have'been received here, the Russian army
will be immediately put in motion to commence the ope-
rations of the campaign.
General Rudaewitach, who commanded the 3d corps of
the army, is dead. His successor is not yet known.
BERLIN, MAN 10.—According to the latest accounts
from St. Petershurgh, received by way of Warsaw, tho
Emperor and Empress of Russia will net leave St. Peters-
burgh till two days later than was intended, and therefore
will not arrive at Warsaw till the 17th.
SEMLIN, APRIL 23.—The news of the intended return
of the French and English ambassadors to Constantinople,
has caused great joy ameng the Mussulmen at Belgrade.
The Turks appear to censider the event as the result of the
ccarsistent conduct of their sovereign. They are firmly
persuaded that the re-appearance of the ambassadors of two
such great Powers, who, from their well known interest,
must be friends to the Porte, will be attended with the most
desirable consequences, especially the cessation of the
blockade of the Dardanelles, which in their eyes is the
greatest evil that has befillen the Ottoman empire in the
course of the present war. The confidence which prevails
among the Turks at Belgrade is remarkable. According
to them there is the less reason to fear any danger from
the Russians, became profound tranquillity and submission
prevail, and the defensive system adopted by the Sultan is
the best to disappoint all the plans of the assailants. Bel-
grade is provided for some years with all necessary ammu-
nition and provisions. It is also affirmed there that the
Russians before Silistria had been surrounded by the light
Turkish cavalry, and suffered some loss. This perhaps is
only one of the reports which are purposely circulated from
time to time, in order to keep up the courage of the
Mussulmen.

FAUX TIM VISTULA, ATAIL 22.---Orders have been

*eeivt (I at 131113stoeic, the head quarters of the Lithuanian
riorps of the army, which give reason to suppose that it
will soon receive orders to march, it seems not improbable
that it will be sent to join the army of reserve, under
Field Marshal Sacken, the strengtb,of which must be con_
siderably reduced by the reinforcements which have been
drawn from it for the army on the Danube. Travellers
who were lately at Moscow, affirm Out cetsiderable
tachments of troops, eOpecially newly trained fecruits, are
hatitening by forced marches to the Caucasus, to reinforce
the army of General Paskewitsch.

The French Journals are barren of news. By all
accounts the conduct of Don MIGUEL tends greatly
to embarrass the French Government. A private
Correspondent in the Moniteur (dating froal Lisbon,
April 25) states that at no time since the return o f
Don MIGUEL have the arrests been so numerous.

German Papers have been received this morning
their contents are unimportant. An article in the'
Allgetneine Zeitung states, that the Duke DE LAVAL
NIOUNT3IORENCY has declined the office of Minister
for Foreign Affairs, to which the King of FRANCE,
in an autograph letter had appointed hint :

FRONTIERS or WALLACHIA: APRIL 23.—1 t is said
that a palace is to be prepared in Bucharest to receive hi•
Majesty the Emperor Nicholas ; the greater part of the
Russian General's staff has arrived at Bucharest, and
General Diebitsch is gone from Jassy to the corps of Count
Pahlen, before Silistria. There have been some more
engagements near Ghiurgevo. The Turks have made fre-
quent sallies, but have always been repulsed with loss.
Travelers say that the famous Tchapan Oglou bad made
an unsuccessful attempt to surprise the Russians. Mean-
time the Russian armies appear to be every where assem-
bling with all expeiition. Trade is extremely brisk in
the principalities; articles of luxury in particular are in
demand. The sanitary state (df the country is good ; there
are, however, reports of a decrease among the cattle, which
would be a great hindrance to the supply of the army.
AUGSBURGII, MAY B.—A ship from Manatonissi,
which has arrived at Leghorn, brings the confirmation of
the surrender of the castle of Lepanto, with the addition
that the surrender of the fortress of the same was expected,
as Greek Captains had already been there to arrange the
articles of the capitulation, and to take an inventory of the
stores, &c. The fall of Missolonghi also seemed to be near
at hand. Flags of truce had already been sent to the
Greek camp. If that place falls into the hands of the
Greeks, nothing will remain for them to conquer in eastern
Greece except the Acropolis of Athens. All the troops
that can be spared already beein to march in that direction.
VIENNA, Mar 2.—The Duke de Laval Montmorency,
received last night by an express from Paris, an autograph
letter of the King of France, announcing his appointment
to the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Duke
despatched the courier again this morning with his answer,
declining, as we hear, to accept the post offered him.
CARLSRCHE, APRIL 17.—His Highness the Prince of
Leinengen has published a very judicious Ordinance or fa-
mily statute, for the regulation of the debta of his house.
The principle of this Ordinance deserves full approbation,
the object of it being to prevent the family domain from
being overloaded with debt, and to introduce a suitable and
invariable system for the future.

The Prince has appointed a special Board for the ma-
nagement of the debts of his house, which are chiefly re-
mains of the debts, the payment of which was assigned to
his dominions by the decree of the Diet in 1802. The
moment chotan is very favourable, as the Prince has no
private debts, and the new statute gives great additional
security to the creditors.

By the French Mail this morning, it is stated
that General LANGEREN has received orders to pro-
ceed to Warsaw ; also that the French Consul at
Bucharest is going to leave that town, as well as
the English Consul, the moment they learn that
Mr. GORDON has arrived at Constantinople. From
Rio Janeiro, of the 26th of March, it is stated that
the declaration of war against Portugal will be pre-
sented to the Chambers on the lit of April.

Mr. O'CoNNELL, we understand, intends taking
his seat in the House to-night. We anticipate no
opposition on the part of Government to an attempt
which has unaccountably, and ‘re think unwisely,
been delayed until now.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind variable.—Sailed
the Creole, Galloway, for Antwerp.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the
Broxbournebury, Chapman, for London ; London,
Huskisson, for Jamaica.
PENZANCE, MAY 13.—Off Port, the John, Pais-
ley, for St. Vincent; and Arab transport, Low, for
Ceylon.
FALMOUTH, MAY 13.—W.S.W.—Arrived the
John, King, from Bahia. Sailed the Royalist, Nash,
for Brazils.
HOLYHEAD, MAY 13.—Arrived the Norab, Ken-
nan, from Demerara; Hall and Lee, from Barba-
does ; Shallett, Mason, and Herald,from Baltimore
and Colombia.
GREENOCK, MAY 12.—Arrived the St. James,
NPNeelage, from Jamaica, and James, M`Queen,
from St. Kitts.
NORTH SHIELDS, MAY 13.—The Wellington,
Forster, bound to Quebec, has put back leaky, and
must discharge part of her cargo.