Star.
London, England, 1831-10-01 00:00:00

THE SUGAR REFINING BILL.

Economists say, that this Bill was enacted in 1828, for
the purpose of furthering the pr pet of making this
country the entrepo4 of the whole world—that it was inertly
experimental, and if found to fail In its object, or to dete.
tiorre our own sugar interests, Its brief period of duration
afforded an easy remedy; others, who profess to be initiated
in the mystic y of Cabinet secrets, assert that this Bin
was brought forward for the peculiar benefit of Messrs.
Rothschild and Co. to improve the Brazilian bonds, and
facilitate their investikg capital in the foreign slave sugar
cultivation ; although the Vienna treaty of 1815, made it
penal for any merchant to advance money on consign-
ments of smear, being the produce of, or imported
front any country that continued the African traffic
in slaves; while it it perfectly well known ; and the
writer of this article (while serving as a niedi :al officer
in the Naval service on the coast of Africa) has had many
painful and ample opportutilties of verifying the strement,
that the Brazilians carry on the slave trade at the present
moment to an extent, and with an atrocity, hitherto un-
paralleled—notwithstanding that it has coat Great Britain in
money alone, the enormous sum of ten millions sterling
to suppress it When the Sugar Refining Bill was
brought forward in 1828, the West Indians earnestly
urged the ruinous iinpolicy of the measure, and pre-
dicted its fatal consequences- a powerful ministry were
determined, however, to carry the nieasure ; and they did
so, by the solemn assurance that the most effectual steps
would be taken to secure the total re-exportation of the
Foreign Sugar; and its noninterference with the home
market; to which, It was admitted, our colonists, as
Englishmen, whose interests being identified with die
parent rate, were undoubtedly entithd to a pref.:.
rence in. %Well, the Bill (notate, 'dens as regarded
the West Indians) was passed; and yet it continued a:.
moat imperative fer two years, notwithstanding! that the
Refiners complained of being cramped for want of raw
material. Why! Sugar is not the growth of a day—
capital bad to be invested in the Brazils and Cuba—
larce cargoes of slaves were required from Africa—
and a very fine quality of cloyed Sugar was requisite
to reader the Bill extensively profitable to the interested
advocates of this extraordinary measure ; the brunet coos.-
queoces of which were not perceived by the usually scut.:
mind of )lr. Matti:sun, whose policy was ever in favour of
our colonies. which he justly desired to make integral portions
of the Empire, as if uo wave rolled between them and Great
Britain. Man members were induced to support Ilinistos
from the on that by specifying the precise quanti-
ties of Fore Sugar to be re-exported they were protecting our
our colon intricate'. This we will prove to be an errone-
own view of the ease; and that, not only the foreign slate
sugars come into the home market in unfair competition
with our own, but that even the Government is thereby
cheated of &considerable revenue, which goes into the poc-
kets of individnals or of foreigners. By the act of parlia-
ment in question, the refiner was bouni to re-export foreign
111ftwvado sugar, admitted into England at 24.. duty (tea
same as all British plantation sugar pays) la the following
proportions foe every cwt
1111bs. of refined sugar....
18 .. of bastard euga. .. To be exported.
28 ... of treacle
5 .. for waste (allowed).
1121ba.

Upon the fulfilment of this engagement, the refiner be-
came entitled to receive a draw-back, at the rate of 38.
10d. per cwt. on the refined, and 241. per eat. on the bal.
tard Sugar; but nothing on the treacle.
As we have before said, foreign Muscovado Sugar was
soon prepared in such a manner, by using the tops of the
fine white loaves, as to be nearly in a state of refinement,
with the exception of its being totally deprived of the water
of crystalization, on its importation into England—in fact, it
might be termed " soft refined sugar." By the present im-
proved process of refining, added to the foregoing advan-
tages, the quantities obtained are on the very lowest ace.
rage, as follows :-
781 be of refined sugar
nibs of bastard sugar To be uported,
10Ibe of trade
Ilb feu eases (allowed)
From this undeniable statement, it will be perfectly ob-
vious that it is impossible foe the refiner to export 181bs.
of treacle, when the sugar he uses only yields him 101b1
bet be invariably makes up the deficiency with I albs. of
molasses, derived hem other sugars. To this !albs. is to be
added the Memo Is the waste, via. 41bs. which gives a
clear advantage in the cwt. of fibs. of Foreign Sugar, ad-
mitted at the Brliehbesatation rate of 21.. per cwt ! Anothe-
strongly objections part, of this unjust measure is, the pal-
pable fraud comusitted en the revenue of making the draw-
' back on 611be.of lump segar,iostes4 of on 781ba. thus giving,
If at all exported, a bonus of seventeen per cent. to the re.
finer, and a loos to that amount to his Majesty's exchequer,
in the one eau ; or, ea the other hand, if the extra 17Ibs be
taken into home cossumption, and added to the difference of
22Ibs. derived from molasses and waste, by parliamentary
miscalculation, 39 pounds out of every ewe. are by this
means smuggled into the country at a duty of 245. instead
of fibs.

We have another stronitgefund on which to stand in op.
to position this foreign g Bill, and which will de.
monstrate that, if persisted in, the ruin of our British Pos.
sessions is not only inevitable, but must be rapid.
Recent Parliamentary documents prove that the lowest
charge for raising sugar for contingent expenditure alone, in
the British possessions, is per cwt. (Bs.
But in the Foreign Colonies it is only
Balsa= *Oast the &Wig Ouster . . be. bid.
The higher cost in the Brit ah Colonies is caused by the
restrictive system imposed upon our colonies for the benefit of
the mother country and her North American possessions. The
British manufseturees, exporting to the West Indies, enjoy a
r:atiditty in the simple OW per cent a the Irish and
ngbleseben have 30 per neat. en their dams i • the provi-
sion merchant has lb. pa cwt. ea his beef and pork ; and
those engaged in the fisheries enjoy indefinite protection, as
all fish caught or imported by Amiga vessels is prohibited !
Again, the return requital for capital invested X a. d.
ih the British possessions is ... 1 9 0
But in the hair attacks it is only ... 0 12 8
Balance against the English capitalist . 0 16 4
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In the British possessions the cost of labour, it will be
seen, is much grater than in the Foerign Colonies.
The cost of nurturing, from infancy, a labourer
is, according to papers printed by Parliament, 187 0 0
But the charge for purchasing and transporting*
slave from Africa to Brasil or Cuba, inclusive
of the slave trader's prole, is . . . 1,18 0 0
Balance against the Englishman . . X 42 0 0
%i'e entreat his Majesty's Ministers to pause belies they
re-enact this anti-national bill to ponder on what we hare
stated, although it is but a brief detail of arguments which
speak to sound policy, and the prosperity of our countri,—
us reflect that the condition of the West Indies is not
oily fearful. hut al wning,—bankruptcy and distrust,
assuming the place of prosperity and confidence,
while the sugar market oontkum wofuliy depressed, or at a
total stand-still, —that the utmost amount of capital em-
barked in the tefining of foreign sugar (and that on the
avowed strength of a mere temporary enactment) is not
300,0001. while our own sugar trade sash the East and West
Indies amounts to many milliors sterling—that twos an in.
crease in the export of foreign refined sugar causes duties to
he paid into foreign treasuties, that depressing priers in
England, and shutting out the 'inept's produce of our own
possessions front the Continent- that in return for 6 o
7,000,0901. worth of sugar imported into Great Britain from
our Coionies, a quantity of British manufactures equivalent
lin amount is exported—that if this sugar be driven to Ame-
rica (which is now actually being the case), American manu-
factures will be received in exchange, instead of English a
and thousands of our must skilful artisans will be deprived
of employment

PROLIFIC TEAL PARTY.—Oar of the sines sin-
guilt celebrations of the coronation was that of Mr. rd.
stone, surgeon. of Congletert, who had a tea pony of sixty
women, " motht•rs of eight hundred and thirty.nme chii-
drcn !—twelve of the tansies slaw ►aving given birth to
" two hundred and two" of the numter ! The Willman had
announced, on the preceding Friday, that Mr. Tilstom had
proposed giving all women who had been mothers or twelve
children each, and chose to apply, a cup of geed Ica mad
More palatable by some superior rid Jamaica. A poor
woman. whom Mr. Tiletnne knew had had eleven, said that
as she expected another very semi to mike op the demo, she
drought she was entitled to • ticket. On Mr. Tdmene's
telling her that he cosh. not deviate from the role, the nu•.
chars of twelve child's§ mud opined' way being invite/I,
she said he might hue to give her a ticket after all ; and
strange to say, sally is the morning of the eseogurieg
hie assistant attended at the ►irth et her twdAls child and
she had the tea scot home se her.

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A t i ,ilication of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent.—By Jusitvstnus. 2s.
This is no ordinary or common-place production.,
It is eloquently and smartly written ; and if the
tllent:- of the writer have not imposed upon us,
•or suspect that it proceeds from the highest au-
thority which belongs to the subject. On account
of roam• sentiments which transpire in it, we would
i!lingly hope, that its assumed authority is a figure
of hetoric ; at the same time, many facts are al-
lude:l to, which a mere writer on speculation could
not he supposed to be acquainted with. In the f
ing passages, we desire not to be considered as
of any party between the writer and the Editor of
the Times. For ourselves, on whom he has be-
stewed a postcript we thank him for his acknow-
ledgment of our " respectable character," and our
" ability and impartiality." The article referred
to in this journal, was merely a current notice of
a public subject, in which we were as dispassionate
as the topic admitted and demanded.
To what strange lengths, says the writer, will
Party-spirit lead public men ? A contempt of all the
received rules of reasoning ; a wilful perversion of
feats ; a headlong and headstrong defence of what
is evils and abuse of What is good, we have been but
too frequently shocked at seeing in men, otherwise
honourable, %siren engaged in forwarding the in-
terests, real or imaginary, of their political party.
Viewed in whatever light it maybe, the•libel of
the Times upon her Royal Highness of Kent is
open to the fullest and the most,triumphant reply.
The statements contained in it are false; but were
they true, they would afford no just ground for
censure ; and if they even did so, the terms in
which that censure is couched would be infinitely
more censurable than the conduct censured. "The
widow of a mediatisted German prince," is the title
which. in the overflowing fullness of hie Manly
feelings, the editor of a print, read principally by
the meanest portion of the community, thinks fit
to apply to the guardian of his future sovereign.
Is widowhood so criminal that it should be branded
and held up to opprobrium ? That cannot be.
It is, then, probably, German birth which excites
the loyal indignation of the scribe. To impute
that as a crime, or, at the very least, as a defect,
to the sister in law of his own sovereign, is thought
by the editor of the ministerial journal, par excel-
lence, a ready mean by which to earn the applause
and secure the patronage of his sovereign's minis-
ters ? Do these ministers meet with perfect com-
placency the gaze of their royal master, after this
solecism of their notoriously bought and paid for
journalist?
It is not, however, the mere accident of having
been born in Germany, and married to a German
prince, by which her Royal Highness a Kent has
excited the spleen of the most high minded journal-
ist ; alas ! no; for her virtues subsequently caused
her hand to be sought by an English prince, an
honour which the scribe naivety says, the royal
lady could at one period of her life by no means
have imagined to have been in store for her ! And
this is an offence, too, evidently an offence; or
why such elaborated bitterness of observation ?
It is too well known to require to be more than
alluded to, that his Majesty recently sent down a
message to the Commons House of Parliament,
recommending au increase of the very insufficient
sum allowed to the Duchess of Kent for her own
support, and for the education of her Royal High-
ness the Princess Victoria.

It is equally notorious, that hie Majesty's mes-
sage was received by the House with not merely
unanimous approbation, but also with-expressions
of surprise from the moat rigidly economical
members, at the long period during which so
scanty an allowance had been doled out to her
Royal Highness. It was well answered, that Le-
opold 1. had preferred to assist his royal sister him-
self to permitting her to ask for increased libera-
lity from the hruse of commons. But that this
recent acceptance of a foreign crown had rendeied
it advisable, and not merely so, but positively in-
di-peesab!e, that upon his liberality, however
honourable to him, the presumptive heiress to the
crown of England, and her royal mother, should
no longer be in any way dependant.
It was found that the rabble, well and ill-
dressed, began to cool in its ardour of earnestness
for the success of the, so called, reform bill. It
was felt by those who, alone, are really interested
in the success of that changeful affair, that their
sole hold upon the popular affection was the sup-
posed good which the populace would derive from
ft. To let the populace fall into an utter indiffer-
ence upon that subject, would be at once to give
up ;lace ; for upon no other ground than the sup-
posed usefulness of the reform bill, and their sup-
posed sincerity in wishing to pass it, and power to
do so, would even the populace tolerate persons at
once so hungry after the perquisites of office, and
so utterly incapable of the performance of its
The Duchess of Kent eiLi not attend the coro-
nation ; ergo the Duchess of Kent must be vic-
timised to the great refreshment of all sanguinary
haters of royalty, and to the profit of sundry pa-
triotic and super-libetal Whiglings. That her
:oval highness did not attend sn solemn a ceremony
could arise from only one cause: she is opposed
to the Reform Bill. His Majesty must, therefore,
alienate his .tleetion from his peccant sister-in-
law, and a leading article of fitting intensity and
blackguardistn must announce that fact to the
agape reade:s of the ministerial and leaden organ.
Such was the view upon which the infamous at-
tack was nutle upon an illustrious lady.
It is true, as we have already observed, that the
main eljeci of the set has failed, signally failed ;
the royal mind is not deceived ; the family which
the set wish to destroy, is not divided ; and, thank
COD ! is not paving the way for its own destruc-
tion, by listening to the falsehoods of its most im-
placable and hypocritical foes. But the other ob-
jects with which this most cruel and cot. ardly as-
sault was made, were fully compassed. The peo-
ple were, firstly, made to believe that, as an indi-
vidual, and in his own private judgment, the King
believed the Reform Bill to be calculated to work
well for his people, and that his Majesty was, con-
sequently, ardently desircus that it should pass;
:iecondly, that the Duchess of Kent was opposed
to the benevolence of the King, and to the wis-
dom (prnh pudor !) of John Russell, Esq. com-
monly called Lord John Russell, and others, the
sage and disinterested patriots of the day ; and,
thirdly, that in order to testify gratitude to the
King, and to defeat the intrigues of the Duchess

of Kent's party, their majesty-conferring majes-
ties, the people, should forthwith] raise their melo-
dious vox poputi for " Reform," " King . Wil
liam, and his patriotic Ministers," individually, and
' en matte.
Will not the reader of these pages be disgusted
beyond expression, when he learns, that instestrof
being engaged in " caballing" against the will
whether a ise or otherwise—of her sovereign and
brother-in-law, the much-injured and insulted
duchess was watching over the couch of her royal
child ; and that that royal child, instead of being
absent from her royal uncle's coronation in com-
pliance with the perverse spirit of faction., was con-
fined, not merely to her chamber, but Illso to her
couch, by a painful, if not dangerous, illness!,
Such was the case; and such the concealed tra-
ducers knew to be the case ! ! !
Said we not that we could fully vindicate the
royal duchess? There is her vindication. Her
affecticn could not endure that her royal and suf-
fering child should task stranger hands fur those
soothing attentions which her state required.—
Every preparation had been made for the appear-•
ance at the coronation of both the duchess and the
princess ; but the mother could not and would not
mix in the pomp and gaiety of a state ceremonial,
while her child lay racked by bodily pain, and at-
tended by aliens to her blood. And this amiable
self-denial, this beautiful trait in a most amiable
character, was seized upon and perverted to the
base purposes of a base scribbler, and his still
'baser employers and paymasters
Living in a style of the most unpretendingplain-
ness, her Royal Highness bas, during her whole
widowhood, in despite of her extremely limited in-
come, supported, by her own hand, several chari-
ties, devoted to different kinds of claimants. A
school for w idows' children, pensions to widows,
food to the hungry, and clothing to the naked,
are constantly supplied at her Royal Highness's
sole expense, and under her immediate directions.
Far from waiting to be sought by the poor of ber
neighbourhood, her Royal Highness seeks them;
and many, who would have perished unheard of in
the obscurity of their squalid retreats, have been
discovered by her agents, and saved by her bene-
volence.

But, supposing that the Duchess of Kent had
absented herself from the Coronation on political
grounds, what then ?

Supposing that she were opposed to the reform
bill, what of that ?
Supposing that she actually were to consult,
upon political questions, that illustrious member of
her family who will not bribe the " leaden" jour-
nal, and who is, therefore, constantly abused by
it, why should that be charged against her as a
crime ?

Do the livid and infuriated slaves, who have
heaped unmeasured abuse upon one who has in-
dividually done more good than they have collec-
tively done harm—and that is saying no little its
her favour—do the suborners of falsehood, who
would crucify CHRIST over again to retain place,
or does their liar-in-chief, who would call his own
mother a harlot, or Messalina a modest woman, for
the smallest current coin of the realm, know that
the Duchess of Kent is by act of parliament made
Regent, should the King die during her daugh-
ter's minority? Is the name of Regent to be all ?
or will ahe have authority and responsibility also ?
Interference, indeceney, faction, caballing, and so
forth, Goa wot ! just as though the mother were
to be indifferent to the future situation of her
child, or the appointed. Regent to have no care as
to the state of the laws of that land which she
may, at any hour, be called upon to govern during
her royal daughter's minority !
The ceremony of the coronation was not a mere
pleasure party, but a great national compact, en-
tered into between the king and his people. What
time so proper for the guardian and parent of the
presumptive heiress, what time so proper for the
royal personage, solemnly appointed by parlia-
ment to govern for her daughter, should she suc-
ceed to the throne during her minority, to protest,
tacitly but pointedly, against a measure which she
should deem injurious to her daughter's future in-
terests, and dangerous to all the best and most
ancient institutions of the kingdom ? Were not
the yelling and venal journals of the set boasting
that the particular time bad been chosen for the
coronation, in order to forward the interests of the
" great measure?" Did they not explain, that
the new peers " to be then created would make a
majority in the Upper House ?" If, then, the
duchess had absented herself, as it was falsely
`averred that she did, on political grounds from the
coronation, we contend that she would have
done no more than she bad a just and indispu.table right to do.
The plain fact is, that though the Duchess of
Kent did not shun the coronation on political
grounds, but from the domestic cause we have
I already spoken of ; she would have been perfectly
justified had she done so. And though her royal
highness does not cabal,—for her taste lies quite
another way,.--it is a very great pity that she and
others of her family do not. It is a pity that her
nature is not somewhat more harsh and worldly
than it is; for if faction be permitted much longer
to run its headlong course unresisted and unob-
structed, her royal daughter's rights will be too far
compromised to be re-established ; and shorn of the
power and influence which belong as inalienably
to them as liberty and justice do to the people at
large, both the crown and the aristocracy will, at
no distant day, have reason, but too cogent, to
wish that the spirit of non-interference had been
regulated by a sterner sense of the wide difference
between grace shown to the industrious many, and
impunity granted to the intriguing, greedy, tyran-
nous, and unprincipled few.
Every kind of trickery, and every kind of ty-
ranny, has been unscrupulously resorted to by the
se., to carry a measure which they well know will
reduce the monarchy of England to a mere cypher.
Fribery at some husting,, and bludgeons at others,
were the moral and mild means by which certain
of the reformed school were returned at the last
election. The peers have been threatened with
mob vengeance, and held up to mob execration ;
and now, the most unobtrusive of the royal family
is assailed with the most insolent reproaches; not
because she is even suspected of having done that
of which the venal scribe accuses her, namely,
" made a systematic opposition to all the feelings
and all the wishes of the present King," but merely
to cause a new ebullition of mob feeling, and thus
to intimidate those who have even yet the power,
to preserve from utter demolition the ark of their
country's safety.

INCENDIARIS.V.

At the Rochdale eallyglaite, on MOirdsy last, Bir.John.
146. file.!l,4l4lllCfTlVOlablero r OW as:4l bad
disported of, pemeated so megleicaterc Boa
and Clement Boyd., Bevy. , a letter,; and . "Oa
Illsterday waver a person netted Buckley, wbo fortnerli
was one ?gales' committee, received a letter, which
rbe dellemid to nth, msd which I desim k my duty to lay heti.
Pre yew. It. is spleginet to him a* an Wdlvidstal, did
et a meet ingwarawry gene 11124 it 111 fag PIN
men, to determine, visit.tiny steps should De taken in
coriseisseres of it." •
perused the letter, said, it was
M
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Mr- Joidliso.r—; man feels himself unmai, in muse.
goodie of having ban made the medium of snob a annum-
nieseles.
John lbaddir mid be could not, to the best of his know.
ledge, vamping the ban‘writing of the letter ; and be was
at a loos to know whether It had been written under vinclic.
Brinels against the persons named in it, or widen design
himself. lie therefore, In ruder to escape all biune,
took it to Mr. Johnson.
Bk. EnTwuri.s.-1 don't knew what an be done; the
letter Is certainly very inflammatory.
Buckley again repeated that he had fornierly 'resin on the
weavers' committee, but that up to the present moment he
bad never encouraged any acts of violence.
Mr. KOTDS.-11 there any club belonging to the wavers
now P .

Buckley.—.NO, I believe it is broken up; I have not been
on the committee these three year'.
The conversation here dropped. The letter was without
date or address, but bore the Rochdale pon.mark ; and
after alluding to the miserable state of the wodien-weavers,
and the recent heavy reduction of their wages, went owto
inquire if there was "no Swing ht Rochdale It dm
pointed out several manufacturers by name, and meal tioned
such parts of their property as were most cooveniendgirei
tuated for nocturnal tango. Though nothing was
upon ea themo-office. it is probable that a strict watch
will be kept all property peculiarly exposed;
Sorzxstvz cosuinamiasios lir !AIMING STOCK.
On the night of Sunday last the *fie barn, etahliair and
eow.house attached to Chadderloa-hall, aid containing the
whole crops of wheat, oats, and hay for the year, was dis-
covered to be on fire, and notwithatanding every exertion
made to arrest the progress of the flames, was entirely con.
stoned, together with nearly the whole of its contents. This
building fronted to the south; in face and gable ends were
chiefly built of bricks; the,itack part, toward' the earth, fres
composed of wood, and elm screened from observation by
thick and toll groves skirting the gardens of the hall. The
building was about 40 yards in length, and 15 in width; on
the ground floor were stills for 28 bead of nude and eklit
blow, but the cattle were in the Bale, sod nano if die 1
stalls nee occupied, exceptnia, by *heist which was in bad'
health. The balks wise. loaded with the produce of this
abundant season. They bald theta be toes Cl hay, 700
riders of oats, about the best over grown in this country,
and the growth of six acres of .beat. About ten o'clock.,
Mr. Lowe, the occupier of the farm, went to the stable eo
examine the horse above mentioned; he had with Win a
lantern and candle, but, as he states, the Intern was never
opened in the stable, and consequently no sparks could pen.
sibly have escaped from it. At the time he was there, all
appeared perfectly in order without the least beads(' of
fire. At about half-past eleven o'clock, one of . his men
was on the causeway, in front of the barn and adloin-
ing the highway, and in conversation with a neigh-
bour of the name of Lord, but neither of them per-
ceived any sign or smell of fire. A little before 12 they
separated, and the man went into the house and got his
supper, previous to which Mr. tied Mrs. Lowe had retired
to rest, leaving another servant by the fire, who let the
before mentioned one in, and the men having had their
sappers, also went to bed. In a short time, Mrs. Lowe
awakened her husband, saying, " What is that which keeps
going rap, rap, rap ?" Mr. Lowe said, " Its Jack coming
up stairs to bed ;" but the noise continuing, Mr. Lowe went
to the window, and putting back the curtain, saw an immense
flame issuing front the barn. He immediately went, in his
shirt, and took the horse out of the stable ; and going to the
back of the barn, found the whole in one moire blase from
end to end. The neighbourhood was speedily alarmed, and '
a numerous population were soon on the spot, many al
whom were most active.ln rendering eminence, but hav-
ing oo means of throwing water save, from buckets and
cans, it was impoislble they could climb the flames.—'
About two (Meath smith arrived from Oldham, and,
after a coosidseabbytime kid elapsed in axing the pi
and in etherletniaritlems, dieing which the the w „ g
the most rapid and slesirwatieptogress, the . to.
week, and was lesintamatal in checking Ike
man in that penile which ft vibrated. Bat all nil VI
enc 4s,
we are informad,slobe that meld have been dose : *Aral Ot
the foilsman Were la a state of fetelitation, or Dien, so i '
and othersilmitead et hiapbx a ad bead and a determined ,I
heart, came tandebal with bottles of rum in their pothers.
Probably a sotharpengine, however well "OA could not
have rendered very effectual service on a balling ea con.
*eructed and so stored. The men, however° ought to have
done their duty, which, we are wry* to say, waft to the
above representations, they did dot do. The balks were of
solid oak, and of great dimensions ; the flooring was of the
same materials, and of uncommon thickness, consequently
they burned a long time before giving way. By five o'clock
on the following morning, however, all was down, with the
exception of one gable end and a small pan of the roo4
which it supported. The property saved is very trifling, and
conshts of some gearing,_ a, ,small quantity of wheat, and
some hay, neither of whi& latter will probably be fit
for use. The property
.destroyed was valued at at five
hundred ponds ; and, .4 it is not inserted, the loss will fall
on the tenant, Mr. Lowe. These particulars are the re-
sult of inquiries made. on the spot. There is no Insides
evidence that the destruction was occasioned by an incendiary,
but the circumstance of the building having been found to be
on tire its whole length, affords a strong presumption that it
had commenced burning in several places at erne and the
ante time, which would not probably have been the case hat
the tire been communicated by any other than human means. •
The circumstance has caused a strong sensation in the nun.
try, and, coupled with the distansed situation in which a great
portion of the manufacturing population is placed, and the
circumstance of the incendiary letter received at Rochdale,
the public may reasonably conclude that the spirit of incen.
disown has not been extinguished, but only smothered for
a time,--that it has been imperceptibly spreading and ga-
thering strength, and that it behoves the holders of exposed
property to establish a rigid guard on their premises, and to
have an eye upon all who approach them.—Times.

PANORAMA OF
,ME BRITISH

EMPIRE.

COLCHESTEMTriIiTTE, Ca. 1.
In the majority of Members in this district on the Re-
form Bill, were Mr. Western, Mr. Wellesley, Mr. D. W.
Harvey, Mr. Mathew, Mr. Leonard, Sir F. Vincent, and
Mr. WalrontL In the minority, were Mr. Q. Dick, Right
Honourable G. Dawson, Mr. Hordes, and Sir J. Dr
Walsh.
The principal inhabitants of this town during the last
and present seeks, have been highly gratified in hearing
Mr. Scott deliver his Introductory Lectures on Astronomy,
at his New Observatory, St. Mary's. Mr. S. has certainly
fitted up his Lecture Room with great taste, and has pro-
vided it with a great variety of Diagrams, Charts and In-
struments, used in taking Astronomical observations; and
the vety agreeable and pleasant, and, we may say, eloquent
manner in which he addresses his audience, gives universal
satisfaction.

FAWN INFORMATION AGAINST A BISER snor.-7.fies.
brook, keeper of a beer shop in Birch, appeared to an in.
fotrnation, laid by the Rev. 81. Havens, the clergyman of the
parish, for having, u alleged, permitted gambling in his
flutist. The Rev. Gentleman, in support of his charge,
stated that on Monday week he was passing the house of
the defendant, when he observed persons gambling with
halfpence. He called Mr. Smith. churchwuen d of East
Torpe, who also said what the parties were about. Mr.
Smhith, on being interrogated, said he saw a man with a few
halfpence in his hand, who appeared to be copping them
up rather for idle pastime than for gambling. In feet,
witnessilid nut consider who: he saw the man do could be
gambling. The Rev. Gent. said though the defendant was
a very steady and industrious man, yet be was ceetsin be
suffered skittles to be played in his house. He could ?di
however, recollect any specific day on which skittles had
been played. The Bench, of course, could not entertain
the Rev. Gentleman's information, end consequently they
Intimated to the defendant that Mr. Havens did 'not with
to press the case any further, but they would minion him
not to permit skittles or any other kind of gambling or tree.
guLsrity in his house, as magistrates had it in their power
to deprive him of his licence whenever they thought it ex.
pedi.nt.—The esse was then distlderri•
On Sunday, the 18th ult. at Dedham, a servant girl at-

tempted to set fire to the farming premises of her mask', '
Mr, C. Kiddie. She threw a lighted paper upon some
Arils in tha eow-bante, but the blase frightened her so much
that she pp. the alarm, and no mischief ensued beyond
destroying-the straw.. . .
;OleciPlloTnit M.tacz2,, Sire. 24.—The Market was
very flail to-day, With a. hip supply. but ever thin; was
den and draper ; iodide great liftai rivaled though-
out the dap_
Whit. Whole 9 (per Quirierl, 74. to 80a; Red ditto, 48i
toed. ; Ilarley,•3os is 345; Oats, 24e to 311; Tiek Reins,
36. to 40e; Hera Bean, 3114 to 42s ; White Pease, 40, to
445; O. rey ditto, 35. to 40e. ,
MA ED.—At South Weald. Mr. O. Pithy to Miss'
Marla Eliza Kavanagh, niece to the late Dr. Kavanagh of
Btreotwood Hall—At Alt Souls, lAlighatn•place, W. 'or.
air, Req. of Gower.strat.. Bedford-square, to Wilhelmina
tratlelzEnleillary, of Withins.-.At Badge, . De la Mere
Fig. of Oundford.street, Russell-square,
to Mary-nott darth !khan, stand niece of the late Mrs.
Short, of Boo* Hall, nuffolk--The Rev. T. 8. Hodge",
rector of Little Waidtisii to Mary, youngest &setter a J.
, Rtiq of Gloucester-place.
Co in,
22d tilt. aged 28 years, Lipley Rose, M.D.
Wert eon of Was. Grant Rose Esq. M.P.—Sunday last,
suddenly, in the 79th year of Me age, George Collins, Gent.
of Soutbgateearesti Bury.
SKIMP PIMLD COURANT, Sept. 30.
flithrrixts Revolts( Perterox.—The petition to the
Peen, wad on at the meetiai in Paradise Square, on
Monday. last, had, at the time our paper went to pass, re-
ceived upwards of 12,000 signatures. We understand it is
to be gentle Loodon en Saturday evening next.
Finn TRADE TO THE EA5T...401111111 merchants' iron
is now selling theinei at Weeds than In South Wales or
Staffordshire ! And some Rest India merchants have It in
contemplation, we bear, to reship it to this country ! How.
ever desirable "Free Trade to the East" may be, it is far
more desirable that this country should first be in a skate of
sufficient prosperity to enable it to consume an increased
quantity of Bait India productions; the above fact affording
a clear and foreibleproof that no demand far our articles
can exist in the Ram, unless a defend for eastern
productions on the pert of this country exists first.— Dir.
esiephom Journal.
COTTON TEATL—Several of the factories in Bolton,
which were wotting sheet time are now on full work ; but
Messrs. Bolling have given notice of a reduction of ten per
cent. on all counts of yams and all sires of wheels in their
spinners' wages, to which their men have assented, on con-
dition that their muter. would reduce their cottage rents
threepence per week, and make a small reduction in their
charge for gas.
ScreiresPre Meets° AT Yome—This novel and in.
retesting meeting commenced on Tuesday last, and will only
terminate with the week. Oa Tuesday, at noon, Lord Mil-
ton, as President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society,
_took the doh at the first meeting foe seitece—and similar
meetings are to be held daily.
hicannuarsh.—A few days ago, some straw belong-
•ing to Mr. Robert Lemplougli, at Langton, neat Burling-
too, WAS set ire to,. sod abo a train laid to his corn 'tacks.
It was, however, happily discovered before any mischief
.was done. Two other attempts were frustrated in the same
iletit.ttraesia.—The Marquess of Filly hat add Fang
to W.f. Rlchardsoo, winner of the two-yesr-old stakes at
Doocaiter, fur 3,3001. and half his engagements I I a price
.perhetly unpreadiated, and exceeding, if we madder the
.sdpulatkm to receive half hiewinniul, mere than a thousand
pounds, the largest sum ever yet pad for a two year old--
Ead Wilton has purchased Chancellor of Mr. Bowes, for
8001. and has also bought Bras de Fee of Lord Sligo; these
two are 'for his lordship's racsp next week it Heaton Park.
Mr. Ridden hie sold Emodpittion to 11r. Gully, for 15001.
In the course of the monde( Mr. Skipsey sawed 1100 gs.
for Castrellina, the Saddlers dam, for wham be gays a 101.
note three or four yeass ago!
WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET, Wednesday, Sept.llll.
—We bad a good show of Stock at market to.day ; the
buyers not being Ter, eager, caused a decline in 'price', and
part :chained unsold. Beef, fis 64 to 6s 3d per .ssoese ;
Mutton, Mid to Old per pound. Baits, 450; Sheep, 6,130.
MARRIED.--On Monday, Mr. Miley Cooper Foulds,
surgeon, to Miss Miss Brows—Va Saturday lest, Charles
Yriestley. Req. solidtor, Ikedford, to Katherine Mad.,I,'ldes; datighter of C. F. Nus Geld Rsq.—On Wednesday, at
WukelitA Mr. W.Holdswerth, surge* to Mary, daughter
of Mr. J. Atkinson, all of trance:On Wednesday, at
'Leeds, Thomas Galli, to
,dsughter of W. West-
weed, Esq. of Brenstriek House,
DlED.—ffiusioy sweening, at her. haw in Wiffilmaso-
street, aged 53,11 re. Cohan', relict of Rev. Thomas Cot•
saill, late at of St. Paul's Church, in this toile.—
Friday, at &thulium, Mr. lams Clerks
• THE CORMUBLIN, Sept. 30.
Tax PALL or Torrans.=—We ate an the Wei' &stied
political dispensed 's I The_ tis one of those eventful
periods which determine .fa*.. Pt ftituteitth,- and from
the eleeedos to which Fre•Areloised by the new charter of
coneduitional libaiy
,wsprorisa to glance at the empire-
the merits of thaw of gOveinment width have es
long struggled for dominion and are now in their final con-
flict. IVe•objett toe:tar=statt . as apolitical Vaasa, it
has no animating prinel it is without the' signature
verre:Thieallatlchnsmalow
vityin Wiargeanaliesi
binfcrtunrnihiettmlyvlye abeen't,itisii•nceadwoefrrehat;
or authority of any' tinth. ,
pect
but like many other brandies of our antiwar., the ue.
don of iron has lattesly beets so excessively ex • as St
force down prices beyond slay thirtgathat could have been an.:
ddpated. By this means the rads of the iron master hue
Oct
.enly been extinguished for the last few jean, but bit
antkipatiens as to future gains have been, to say the hase,
even s small profit as his •iniestments by the art 'strictest •
attention to economy and matiagemen in all the thpartroeph
'of hie trade. In the
_year 1825, the eireent price of ton:rota
bar hob at the shipplog phi was' 14L pa ton ; and that now
in July 1831, the same artitile Is selling tor 51.15 e. per' ton.
The dinkiest points of reduction between these two en-
thanes,' with the occasional Meths and *het* in theliria;
are shown by the •folleviaglist'of prim- bin 1824 to the
present time:— .
„, .. • , Sr *vet T
.on.
September 1011fri. • • 0 0
.
Noveribee a • •
,10 . 0 0
January 1865
• , March . •
.. . ........ 14 0' 0
ntics " ••••• • •••• • )12 00 '
.. - October " ........'•••• ....• ••••• • • 10
..-o.' 0
May list ..4.... , . •90 0 •'
October ' ... ... BlOlO ,
Nemembee : ." ................4...... -9• 0 "0
Febebety III? .... .... • • ........ .410 ' 0
ASlay. . : ....... ...•8 0 t 0
' ' 610'0
&phobia' " ' ,
* ' . .-010 '0
D•CIllille • " . • • ' Ede 0 . '
Febremy 11186 ' •.. '8 ' 0 0
May 99
'
,
Chabot It •
0 ' • ' 0
. . December . ,r ..... 7i•! • •
Jasuary ' IiMMI : • V 111 0 -
M
April " • • 0 10'`0
..
ay - 0 5 . 0
..
June . 4.10 0 n,
September " * 8 0 0
October " - • "S IS o''
December " ... a ' . . ' 1 10. 0
March 1850 *
Apt d i.
• .I<,o .0' .
May 1.
October .. • - • 4 10 0
January 1931 ' • o•4' 0
April "
June " • -• ••• e. : 5 5 p
Quantity of alipeitwe soliat Ihrausea,.loll7 tons. Ave-
rage produce, 14. Quantity of fine copper, 100 Miele cwt.
Amount of sale, 7,3701. 18.. Average standard, 971,13 e.
Quantity of copper are sold at Truro. 3131 tees. Average
produce, 811. Amount of sale, 18,0881.195. 'Ahem, stag.
dard, 1021. la. Quantity of flue copper, 201 tons 8 cwt.
Wtreores for' sale at Pool,. Oct.l ......bolcolth, 722;
Jrewel, 279; North Rpskoar, 186; Wheal Crafty,
72; Cooks Kitchen, 267; South. Towan, 183 ; Wheal Tot.
gm, 181; Wheal Btrawbam 163; Stray Ptak, 138.
HILITON 31ALKI T.. Wheat, (avenge) 22s 6d-Barley,
lOs 9d—Oats, Bs.
LAIIINCUTOX.—Wheat, (average) 56s 9d—Barley, 30a.
4d-Oats, lbe 11d. (pa quarter)—Beef, 6d—Perk.. 6d
Motion, Lamb, and Veal, bed—Geese. Si 04 ,to ss-..
Ducks, 21. 6d to 31-IFbels, per couple,ls 6d—Bulter, lid
pee lb.
Xetah—Wheat, leas..-Barley, 19s-..Oats, fle. 3d.
MARRIED.-31st Jektet Poet Royal, Jamaica, Mr.
Job. Avery, Perla of the Neal Hospital at that place, to ,
MiliSue9999 Dingle, Tate of 61111Wooh, in this county.
DIED.-27th hat. at Peoryn, Copt: ItHtcheimore, of the
schemer Liberty, aged 53. 1