Star.
London, England, 1830-04-28 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS
Bank Stock 215
S per Cent. Red. 911 II I
1 per Ct. Cons. 921 if 1
5è per Ct. 1818, 100
54 per Ct. Red. 9944 1
4 per Cent. 1011 II
4 per Ct. 1826, 1041 1
Long Ann. 191 1.16
Do. 30Yeara, 18 546 1

i. TWO O'CLOCK.
Do. B. 11124 6 p Ct. 541
Do. Ace. 541
Pique. Bd.. 6 pr Ct. LS 41
Ditto Acct.
Port. Bd.. bpr Ct.
Do Account 61
Russ. 131 e. 1822. Spr Ct. 111
Ditto Ace. 1111
Sp.Hds. S per t t. 21
Do. Acc 61
Sp. Bch. 1623, S per Ct. 11
Ditto Ace. 16

MAILS ARRII
D.
1 Elegith....... 0
1 Waterford..... 0
o Guern.&Jersey 0
O Buenos Ayres... 0
0 America........ 1

ingratitude to scrutinize the means of so mild promised
good, and hailed it as the evidence of a sincere
desire, on the part of their sympathising ru!.,is, to afford
then all possible relief. A ►►hort time, however, has
more than sufficed to dispel the illusion, and t., convince
them that the project was only calculated tb lull them
into fancied security, to Still u the clamorous supplica-
tions of their misery, and to acquire for Ministers a
temporary popularity, by which—and by which alone—
they have been enabled to " weather the storm," or to
retain their hold of power. Some five or sir. months
home, perhaps, the poor man—should l►e so long
be able to endure the privations to which he has been
reduced—may slake his thirst, with a mrser's zest,
and laud the financier who has economised for him
at the rate of three-farthings on every quart of a!e
which he consumes but, in the mean. time, a
grievous and destructive impost is, from pure Ministe-
rial regard to the morale of the people, added to the duty
upon home-made spirits ;—whilst rum—the produce of
the Colonies, and quite as demoralizing a spirit as any
" hot and rebellious liquor" manufactured in the
Mother Country—is exempt from such an additional im-
position as would afford a fair and just protection in the
home market to British, corn spirits. By this pru-
dent fiscal regulation, the agricultural interests of
Great Britain, already impaired and sunk almost as low as
the incapability, impolicy, and imprudence of Statesmen
can sink them,—are to be further deteriorated and de-
pressed, until our once fertile fields become bare and barren
heaths. An incalculable injury must be inflicted upon
the distillers by the " breach of faith" which they charge
upon the Government ; and which, at the same time, " in
thus increasing the duty on spirits manufactured from
corn without a corresponding advance in that chargeable
on rum," deprives the agriculturist of that fair and
equitable protection which the difference in the duties
established in 1825, afforded them;—whilst the de-
crease, which the operation of the measure cannot fail
to occasion in the consumption of' inferior or da-
maged corn, now used in the distilleries, and
totally unfit for all other purposes, must, of ne-
cessity, throw a great quantity of land, upon which such
corn only can be grown, entirely out of cultivation. But,
if the distillers and the agriculturerists have cause of com-
plaint, to what an accumulation of wretchedness must
this measure expose the labouring classes ? If land be
thrown out of cultivation—as it inevitably will be—what
then is to become of the industrious poor to whom its
tillage afforded employment ? This may be a minor consi-
deration in the opinion of the sage directors of the Nation's
destinies—but it will force itself at last upon them. In
the meantime, as the Morning Chronicle observes,
" Ministers have placed themselves in rather an awkward
predicament with regard to the Distillers and West In-
dians. Every where the Country Gentlemen are bestirring
themselves, and it does not require the gift of prophecy
to foretell the result." After all, we question whether
the relief thus extended to the West India proprietors
will avail them much, whilst the duties on Sugar are kept
up to their present ruinous rate.