Star.
London, England, 1824-11-16 00:00:00

COHN I'll A DE.
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A struggle is now carrying on in the corn trade—on
one side to prevent, and on the other to procure the
opening of the poi is for the importation of barley. The
great aim of each is, by sales and purchases, real nr
fictitious, to alter the state of the averages, as tilty will
appear in the returns for the six weeks ending on the
12th instant, by which the importation is governed.
Of the extent to which the fictitious sales have been
carried, some idea may be formed- from the annexed
table ; from which it will be seen, that from the 27th of
September to the 6th of November, there arrived in the
port of London 25,307 quarters of barley, while the
quantity of the same grain returned by the corn-factors
Ito the Inspector of Corn Returns, as having been sold
and delivered during the same period, amounts to
46,231 quarters. It is thus demonstrated, that 20,924
quarters of barley have been returned in fictitious sales,
with the view of opening the ports for the importation
of foreign barley. The Inspector of Corn Returns has
made a report on these transactions to the Board of
Trade, and the affair is at present under investigation.
As the parties are now known who have been guilty of
these disgraceful acts, it is to be hoped they will be
publicly exposed, in justice to the respectable factors on
the Corn-Exchange.
Quantity of Barley arrived in
the Port of London in this
_ following Weeks :

Quantity of Barley returned by
the Corn-factors to the In-
spector of Corn Returns, as
having been Sold and Deli-
•ered in the following Weeks:
Quarters.
318
716

Quarters.
Sept. 27 to Oct. 2 651
Oct. 4 to Oct. 9 976
.-- 11 to Oct. 16 5,427
- 18 to Oct. 23 5,878
- 2.3 to Oct. 30 5,043
Nov. 1 to Nov. 6 9,332

Sept. 27 to Oct. 2
Oct. 4to Oct. 9
- 11 to Oct. 16 5,507
- 18 to Oct. 23 5,449
25 to Oct. 50 8,449
Nov. 1 to Nov. 6 25,792

25,7.07

46,231

Late intelligence from Laguayra, mentions that
Baron de Sit ACK, the distinguished botanist and agent
of the Aistrian Government, in collecting specimens in
natural history through Gregiana and Brazil, departed
this life there on the Ist of September. The seeds he
sent to New Yot k from time to time have teen usefully
employed by the Horticultural Society, 'and the pro-
prietors of the Lint,Tan Garden.
By the John Wells, arrived at Liverpool from Nest'
York, papers to the 24th ult. have been received. They
give no later intelligence from Peru or Mexico than had
previously reached this country. Accounts received at
Charleston from Havannah, to the 4th ult. mention the
arrival there of the schooner United States, after having
conveyed the widow and two sons of Iruftstoc from
Mexico to Louisiana. This explains, perhaps, the
cause of the remittance having come from Havannah
for the maintenance of Irontunia children. Previous to
the 4th ult. two transports had arrived at Havannah, in
3:3 days from St. J uau de Ulloa, with 169 Spanish troops.
It is stated in a private letter from Cadiz, that the
French squadron; consisting of the Sarni anothe,
80 gun ship, four frigates, and two smaller ves,els,
after petforming various evolutions returned to the
Bay on the 21st ult.
Thursday morning, as a man named Cropp was
walking at the bottom of the Marsh, at Southampton,
he saw in the water what he ,upposed to be j pair of
trowsets, but on examining it, he found the body of a
female child-wrapped up; which some depraved wretch
must have left thcre, An Inquest was held on the body,
4 and an Inquest returned of—" Found drowned.'