Star.
London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

THE MALT DUTIES.

Monday, agreeably to a requisition presented to the
acting Magistrates of the Hundred of Chimehoe, a meeting of the
owners and occupiers of the land, =listers, and others, was held
in the great room of the Crown inn at Mundford. Norfolk, to con-
sider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the total repeal of
the malt duties. The meeting was composed of some of the most
respectable landowners in the county. Among other Gentlemen
present was Thomas Samoa, Esq. of Stoke Ferry, the maltater
alluded to by Mr. Coke in his speech at the county meeting.
At twelve o'clock the Rev. J. Partridge, of Cranwick, was called
to the Chair. After reading the requisition by which the meeting
was called he briefly stated the object the requisitionists con-
templated.
Thomas HASTIY. Esq proprietor of the greater portion of land
in the parish of Northwold, shortly moved, and William Nurse,
&q. of Feitham seconded the following resolutions, which were
read by the Chairman :
Resolved—l. That this meeting views with the utmost alarm the
general distress by which they are surrounded, and, notwithstand-
ing the height to which ruin and pauperism is arrived, they see no
means of preventing their further increase, unless some relief can be
obtained from a part of those burtbens whkb now too heavily op-
press them.
2. That this meeting is of opinion that the tax upon malt is the
most burthensome and oppressive of any, and that it is of all others
the most ruinous in its consequences to agriculture, for as it dimi-
nishes the consumption, it consequently discourages the growth of
barley, the staple produce of all light soils ; it deprives the poor
man of the means of brewing his own beer, and drives him to the
ale-house, the usual resort of the worst classes of society, and
thereby lays the foundation of that demoralization of character
which now so unfortunately prevails.
S. That, looking to the different items of taxation iniposed by
the Legislature of ibis country, this meeting can see no tax the
repeal of which will afford such effectual relief to the agriculturists.
and which wilt at the same time add so moth to the comfort, and
tend so much to improve the moral condition of the people, as the
malt tat. ••
4. That it is, therefore, not only proper and expedient, but ac-
tually incumbent upon this meeting, to present petitions to the two
Houses of Parliament, for a total repeal of the duties on malt.
5. That petitions in unison with these resolutions be adopted,
and that Lord Suffield be requested to present the same to the
House of Lords, and the Members for the County to the House of
Commons.
Mr. &mon said be, for one, could not approve the resolutions
width be bad just read. From one bushel of malt could be pro-
duced sixteen gallons of good beer' on which the malt duty, if the
beer was brewed at home, would only amount to one budges per
plot; therefore, he contended, the poor man would not depart
from his old method of obtaining beer for so trifling a saving. flisi
reduction in the malt duty would only benefit the rich or more
opulent class of farmers, the gentlemen whom be then saw around
bier, such as his friend Mr. 'former' who would reap the advan-
tage, because they brewed their own beer ; but the poor msn would
be saddled with one hundred per cent. by leaving hint to pay the
present duty on beer. What he wanted, if a reduction of taxation
was to be brought about, was the reduction that would benefit the

Mr. Haus would ask Mr. Salmon one question. When malt
wee cheap most poor families then brewed their own beer ; there-
fore did not Mr. Salmon think they would do so again were malt
duties reduced?
Mr. Samoa said to a certain degree the reduction of the malt
ditty world cause families to brew at home; still there was another
thing,to be considered. A poor man now went to a public.houes
sad gave 3d. for a pint of beer, which, by brewing at konw, be
add obtain for lti. Was it, therefore, reasonable to mew that
she farthing reduction in the duty would eases the poor men so
slow We domestic arrangements? Did the swede; Upset a min
would save a farthing who thus wilfully spent twopence?
Mr. Twins, of Stanton, a farmer of two thousand sera,
under Lord Waisingbam, nut addressed the Minehig. He said
the fete of the petitions preowned to Partsmont use yairiello.
praying for a repeal of the malt and beer duties, was still fresh in
his memory. Mr. Coke on that occasion said the agriculturists
were than defeated bemuse they asked tee much, sod the Hoe.
' weather still maintained the saute opinion. as he considered the
stsirwely of the brewers mown es to belle all the neraiou ol the
people at large. He hoped to Use to me the day when the malt
tut .wuuld be reputed. It was there that the labourer whom
. faveethe knight was Sir John Barleycorn, would be able to
geed and wboinese burst a fair pdee,and see to bon to
1 Ms shim with water. as woo now the sae. lie aiwitnifeilpll:
111000 evils under which aice enticoltinbir itbouslifl 10 Aso 1*", .
i per effects of the free trade system, sod the analog from dr-
gelation the Us-pound notes, which buts the -bend of stingy '
- hitherto foisting between tilt basket*, the Ihnison, . the areill
i cesikmaen. esti the wade deafer. When the letter sem non le
bey : aptiew Sr Uniting, imam was nes lint. Oils
, lhe farmers bpi always the law Cent HS theft
! 140.• teased rye to be at a Seelione See •• iris a
ilibitaid-by Its eirehr. This din IWO rem •
of the profit of two. at *air mole agibsOdiMeta aid mkt=

'From the Paquete de Portugal.
The usurpation of Portugal had been consummated just when
it was to be expected that the great Powers—at, least those
derided by the usurper, by rendering void his most solemn pro-
miser-would declare against his peejurles, and resent the outrages
thereby committed. Two Cabinets...which there is no need to
point out—agreed on a certain object, and on the means of attain-
ing it. This object was denominated—" The Composure of the
Affairs of Portugal"—a vague and unde fined expression which
simply meant to canonise crime, and to punish air tue and fidelity.
The means intended by these two Cabinets were these :—to marry
Don bliouar, to the ltgidmato Queen—who would thus become
the devoted victim of the usurper, and shortly die the death of
Sommea! Next, an amnesty granted by Don Mzou at., and even
compensations : end lastly, to send the old Queen to Spain, in
order to relieve the son from her malign influence. By these
means, that Cabin, would attain their aim ; but the truth is
that all of than were quite impracticable.
The marriage of Don Man= turned out to be a fantastical at-
tempt, and we are at a lose to guess how Diplomatists so high
rated, were, end perhaps are as yet, so ignorant of the character and
principles ofttie influential men in Spain and Portugal, as to think
that this would be borne. Don Mount neither liked, netts likely
ever to marry the Queen: the &cavil of Don Mincer. spurn this
plan : the advisers and creatures of the Bedlam (Vetha) of Quoins.
and the Apistolicals of Spain, start with horror at the idea. And
the reason livery apparent:—the presence of the august victim
thus offered to the eyes of the nation, would excite that sympathy
which naturally is inspired by unfortunate innocence and legiti-
macy. is e.beautUul and young princeu, whose reign promised a
golden agi to the unhappy Portuguese. At the sight of this prin-
cess, their ithility would awake, and put in continual danger her
implacableand- tasteful husband. AU the instruments and abettors
of tyranny &self Ind themselves in the same peril. How, then,
could it be etpoord that they should agree, to leave the structure
they had raised akto be undermined? Would they establish them•
selves upon a volcano? To these obvious difficulties, another is to
be added, perhaps of no less weight. The Emperor of Brag!,
after hearing of the horrors practised by Don Menu, evinced the
most decided reluctance, a downright averdon, to enter into any
adjustment whatever with the usurper, especially that of marriage
with the young Queen. His Imperial Majesty declared his feel-
leg—his determined will—not only to the Portuguese sent from
Ragland to Rio de Janeiro, but also to Lord STRANIIIOIIII, who
came back from 13wil, after all his diplomatic and cunning
efforts, all proving no more successful than those formerly made.

As for the second means contemplated—namely, the Amnesty
—its practicability is subjected, if not to greater, at least to the
same dillievkirs as the former. An amnesty, although it were not
opposed by the hatred and deeply-rooted rancour of the infant,
the mother, and Apollo Scale, against all liberal men, and liberal
principles, would bring back the emigrants, and empty the gaols
and concealments of such persons, as never would be reconciled to
hisoues„—persona, without fear of contradiction, the most worthy
of the ►ingdom, whether taken for talent, rank, or reputation.—
The principles which.these valued men have advocated shall ever
exist;—and notwithstanding all the vigilance of our depraved Go-
vernment, It will prove impossible to put a stop to their propaga-
tion ; and hence arises the nationa► and deep-rooted aversion to the
Usurper. There is no doubt that these men, and their friends,
would, sower or later, be driven from their hearths, and the noise
of their fall would re-echo to each angle of the Spanish Peninsula.
How, them, an it be conceived that Don Miount, the CPseen,and
her Apoetolkals, would agree to open their doors to these power-
ful enemies,—leaving the strong-holds of usurpation to be invaded

and beaten to pieces, which the idol of the wicked had erected?—
As for compensation, there is no thinking on It. We have said
already that the Usurper delivered over to his minions the pro-
perties of the proscribed, as the spoils of victory ! These they
have coosumed—eztravagantly wasted : the Government is asking

OMB t wherefrom can be draw funds for the restkutioos How
altpiniess. now, those who were rewarded with the blood and pro-
petty of she emends* of tyranny?
It remain, cobs comideredbovi the last means—that of seadlog
away the widow Qom from Portugal to Spain—is to be accent-
ribbed. Lit us see whether It would cost less to effect this than
the others. Den Menu. is on the throne by the working of his
'lllelher's party. AS the servants of the tyrant are aware that Don
llarit, being but the instrument. It is necessary to support the
cause which upholds him. Her party is his party. *fete Don
Seam to low the support of the Queen, who would sustain him?
eeett you send bee away—if you reduce her—you annihilate the
ISt rower which she wields, in virtue of her inauence with the
hinge Apessulis. U their representative be politically dead, the
11/01thith itteelsea them to the wheel of the Usurper is broken.
Asa then, who would chow to keep up that monster in power—
, a man who la the home out only of the people of Portugal, but of
all that is respeeteble and enlightened in Europe? Such a propo-
side' testi only be made to the Ministers of Don MIOUZL, who
are the Ministers of the Que.'s ; you may disguise the leagues,
as you please. it shall always come to this :—" You muet throw,
away your only. support. and , destroy yourselves by your own
hands; expose yourselves to fall victims to the revenge called
emu by your wickedness I" And is it passable, that amongst
the lobenkes of Dam Mscierm, one man could be found ipOOl4lllF
wady te Minsk to this eunditlon ?
• Iv-truth, the two %Wets oilutled to. have. thin let wens to
eig4Poo. She affeles# Portegal ;" awl so tupel us, tbat uotwith
Zltgilloyomaibillty of obtalaing the first, and of reaching the
Wbkts even low the Cosiest Unita& is doing bit
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From the Messaper des Chambres of J(111. 18.
TOULON, Jaw. 12.
(Patvaes CoaaISPONDIINCe.)—It seems that events become more
complicated, and proceed with rapidity ; the telegraphic despatches
succeed each other without Interruption. Fresh orders are coati.
nually received to hasten the equipment of the vessels which I have
given you a list of in my preceding letters. Ido not know whe-
ther any plan of operations is formed with Egypt, but orders have
just bees given to have a fast-sailing vessel ready to set out for that
country, to carry despatches, which the Government sends by es-
preu to Toulon. On the other hand, the Minister of the Marine
orders the Maritime Prefects to keep the Diligente corvette, to be
ready to sail at the first orders for an unknown destination.
Our convoys are doubled—a French merchantman has been
chased by an Aigerine corsair, and another captured, and yet we
have a squadron of twelve sail before Algiers.
The Regency has only two bad ports, Oram and Algiers; and
twelve men of war not sufficient to maintain the blockade so as to
Idoder this handful of barbarians from coining and rising our mer-
chantmen, in spite of a squadron, the number and strength of which
would be more than sufficient to awe a maritime power of much
greater importance than that. This audacity of the Algerines would
afford matter for reflections which I have restrained from making.
Yet the officers commanding our cruisers Are men of the greatest
merit, and of known experience. Our commerce suffers much from
this state of things; and who knows how it will end?
M. de la firetonniere, promoted to the rank of General, leaves
the command at the very moment when the Government is re-
solved, by a vigorous demonstration, to &stand satisfaction of the
Dey far an insult which ought not to have remained unpunished so
long ; and it is Capt. Manion dr Cletrol, his successor, who will
have the glory of attacking once for all these barbarians, who have
dolled us for three years. For some day. past, however, it la re-
ported than an Admiral of established reputation will direct the
attack by sea, and that the land troops will he commanded by a
General of Division of the ancient army, who has been promoted
to the Baton of Marshal of France.

If this is true. and it is very probable. the Captain who is going
to take the command of the blockade will be only subordinate in
the'command; and this would sufficiently explain the return of
M. de la Bretooniere.

It la affirmed, that if the blockade has been relaxed, it is in con-
sequence of a letter from the Admiral commanding the naval force
in the Mediterranean, which informed U. de la Bretonniere of the
Sultan's desire to offer his intervention in the arrangements be-
tween the Dey and France ; and that in the meantime be re-
quested of France the temporary suspension of the blockade, and
permission for a corvette and frigate, and two brigs. to quit the
ports of the Regency, which, were fitted out there, and which the
Sultan desired to be employed in his service. This stratagem suc-
ceeded, since it was in consequence of this relaxation of the
blockade that several corsairs put to sea, gelds& now infest the

The VGlage brig arrived yesterday from Navarino, and has re-
ceived orders to-day to retern to that place, but she waits for the
dispatehes which will be brought express front Paris. The Cype
brig sails to-day for Mahon with dispatches. Its departure is so
sudden that it cannot complete its repairs; but the order it has re-
ceived is positive, and it must go to sea Immediately. AU this
proves the activity of the diplomatic operations lo the Levant. It
seems that our Government is resolved to take a decisive part is
these important affairs. Haavxm grant that there may be nothing
more than a show of hostilities!

•

From the Constitutionnel of Monday.
PARIS, Jan. 18.
No, we are net revolutionists ; but the madmen whom Illieff•
annuated doctrines we combat, find that argument neceesare
against public opinion; and that language of the mereettaries, who
sell calumny at so much a line, is an evident symptom of the pew
dangers which threaten the Ministry. We cannot mipkin adi re-
doubling of brazenness, excepbby the liveliness of their fears. We
repeat, that there is no analogy bet weep a nation which arms Itself
to resume the rights which have been ravished from it, and a na-
tion which desires to retain the rights which it has resumed. The
spirit of preservationjs &metrically opposed to that of revolt.
There is this similarity, however, between this period sad chat
of 17911, namely, that there rests an incorrigible iserion—es Ma-
ples:able enemy of our !think", selishaessaila the Theme with those
terrors which arc calculated to drive the Monarch from a ronstite.
tional coarse, by naming the intentions of a nation which only re-
quires repose, the exercise of‘its rights. and the liberty oisittesioing
its industry. The people rejoice, however. in their steelathi and
despise these senseless provocations.
Eight emissaries of the polka went, an the loth of *a wrest
month, to the boos of M. Victor lissemy, a literary man lee
author of " An Epluk to M. Mangle," overtonte.kle potpie% qqll
saised.the Epistle, whkb was prosecuted by the Attorney-Qs 1.
He was apprehended. and after remaining In the custody ofagueisp
of the Prefecture of Police that night and the neat or, he was
taken in the COMMOO pollee-Taa, among shogrif "141 n 44101,"
Ls Force. He now occupies a chamber near doe feaserkinlia.
Wert by M. arranger. We can conceive no other maim hirlible
rigour than the seli.love of a public tancdovary. M. R. hatik•
dared that be would not mpg* permisplhilp,et h/. MapAin I. N-
eelye his friends. But that would be no reasedolitha alighted's*.
timent of humanity or justice, for not granting him that permission.

Front the Coiirrier Fra,c:a.
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mac 'ordered by telegraph to ftplil herself in readiness to proceed to
,{sea with dispatches. The Ulegvtits corvette, the Cygne brig, and
y Akyme schooner, are also ordered to be ready to sail at a mo-
istest's notice.
At the same time, a yard for snaking rockets Is forming near the
Polygon, under the direction of M. Bowe, and a considerable num-
ber of Congreve rockets are to be ready by the Ist of May.
The Syrene frigate. Captain M. Charmasseht, sails to-day or to-
morrow for the blockade of Algiers, and she carries out M. Mas-
sieu de Clerval, who is to take the command on that station. He
has received directions as to the operations that are to be under-
taken in that neighbourhood. The government is hiring not forty,
hut sixty vessels at Marseille. A Capitaine de Vaisseau is gone
there to examine these vessels. Vice-Admiral de Rommel has
received orders to detain in the Levant all vessels yet there, which
have/seen freighted on account of Government. This news con-
firms the report lately in circulation, viz. that fresh troops are to ►e
sent to the Morea.

The Armide frigate is about to put to an.
The following vessels are repairing at Toulon :—The Ville de
Marseille, the Provenee,the Sciplon, and the Breslaw ships of the
line ; the Oise and the Emulation, corvettes ; the iphiginle, the
Didon, the Pallas, the Amphytrite, frigates; and the Rust, the
Dragon, the Aierte, and the Royale, brigs.
Meat of these vessels were laid up on their return from the Le-
vant, but fresh orders have hastened their reitment.

The Circe frigate is to.return from Mahon.
The last news frem the Levant says that the Trident, a ship of
the line, which was to leave far France about Dan Miser 35, has
received countermanding orders, and that it will remain in the
Archipelago till fresh orders are received. Nothing is said of Ad-
miral Rigny.

From the Journal des Debats.
PARIS, JAN. 18.

When the Chambers meet the question win be raised whether
they and the Ministry can go on together; and on the first words
of the Chamber of Deputies to the Throne, depends the future fate
of the Chamber and of the Ministers—of the Chamber which the
King can dissolve to-morrow—which is as immortal, by its own
nature, as the Monarch; and of the Ministers, whom the King can
send sway in an hour, and who in an hour may die, as well as the
hopes of the faction which has pissed them where they are.

The Address of the Chamber cannot fall to reach this common
enemy. to show them to the Prince as France sees them. There
is not a citizen who has not contributed his emotions and his anger
to the Address; and an Address so composed the Ministry cannot
resist.

It is a different thing to feel confidence when in a small Com-
mittee on the subject of the Address—to laugh at the Chamber
which has expressed its wishes—and to find themselves in the pre-
sence of the Chamber the day after an hostile Address, and listen
to severe language, having no voices to defend them—obliged to
reply to a thousand questions—to feel that they are there in defi-
ance of the Chamber, which has rejected them. This position is
untenable ; one cannot contend against ail ; even the silence of the
Chamber would be a defeat. What then must be its contempt and
its anger

What will then be done ? It will be necessary to resign. For

if the Ministry did not give up the Chamber, the Chamber must
give up the Ministry ; and in case the Monarch convokes another
Parliament, that will give to the Ministers three months longer
life, and this all.
But this Chamber dissolved, another must be summoned. The
hostile Address will be renewed, the Deputies sent away will again
return to the Throne the bearers of the same unalterable wishes, but
the Monarch will be convinced by the unanimous voice of the
people of the truth of their complaints. The circle from which the
Ministry will seek to escape will be drawn closer ; they will be tin-

able to escape ; the Monarch will no longer regard them, aad they

must go out. Then every thing will return to its proper place.
Constitutional France, always having her King at her head—for she
cannot proceed without her King—will go forward with increased
force and liberty towards the great destiny which awaits it, with-
out thinking further of the momentary obstacles that impeded it.
FRENCH FUNDS, SAL 17.
Flee per Cents. 108 f. 75e.
Four and a Half per Cents. 107 f.
Four per Cents. 103 f. 40c.
Bank Actions, 1885 f.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Neapolitan Rentes, Falc. Cert. 94f. 20c. 25e.
Rentes d'Espagne, 94.
Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 824 4.
Interminable Spanish Annuities, 814.

THE EVENING STAR.

a love of 'rational freedom have taken too deep 1 tollitur effeetue. But he must be fond to foolish-
root among our neighbours, to be eradicated bil sees, and inaccessible to the constant teachings of expo-
any Ministerial trickery. While we deplore the total rience, who looks to see the country redeemed, by the
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absence of talent and patriotism in our own Ministers— very spirits who are driving it headlong to destruction.

while we know that the corruption of Parliament,
and non-existence of a National Party among the
Aristocracy, leaves so little room for hope in England,
we derive infinite consolation from a settled belief that
the people of France are destined'to give another splendid
lesson to surrounding nations. Thanks to the progress
of civilisation, the second lesson will not be sullied by the
follies and crimes of the first ! •

We call the attention of the public to an article from
the Paguete de Portugal, which will be found in the
first page of this sheet, entitled " Don MIGUEL and
his Protectors." There is a prejudice—or rather a mis-
taken notion—too common, that England has too many
evils to deal with at home to engage in what is passing
amongst other Powers. This, to any one of ordinary
comprehension, is just the same as to say, that because,
a merchant has, within nis family, wrongs to mend, or
misfortunes to repair, he is authorised to disoblige his
friends, neglect his customers, and disappoint his
creditors. It must not be forgotten that the foreign
affairs affecting this country am but too olosaly connootod
with its domestic concerns ; and that both must neces-
sarily go forward pari passu—if any regard is to
be paid to our prosperity. But it is not now the
question, whether our rulers should, or should not take
a share in the affairs of Portugal. The time is gone
by, to leave that to the discretion of the Noble DUKE or
the Noble EARL. Even from the beginning of the at-
tempt to destroy the blessed sway of constitutional go-
vernment in Portugal, by fixing Don MIGUEL in that
country, it was decided by the parties, alluded to in the
article from the Paguete de Portugal, in the affirmative ;
nor is it sought now, in order to establish the incontro-
vertibbs truth of this, to quote the parts which Sir
CHARLES STUART, Sir WILLIAM AVoulltT,
Lord COWLEY, Sir FREDERICK LAMB, and Lord
STRANG FORD, played in the transaction. We
could only desire to point out the solicitude shown
by his MAJESTY to assert the legitimate rights
of the QUEEN, and restore peace, comfort, and
prosperity, to the Portuguese. This anxiety was ex-
pressed under the authority of his MAJESTY'S speech—
and the question now is, whether Ministers have met his
MAJESTY'S wishes, and adopted those means and appli-
ances, which they had within their power for the accom-
plishment of so desirable an object. It will be a matter
of curiosity to see how it shall be accounted for by our
diplomatists, that—when almost all the individuals of the
royal families of Naples, Sardinia, France, Spain, and
Portugal were put in motion—the grand project of dis-
posing of the old QUEEN has been defeated. There
will, no doubt, be a great deal of equivocation about it ;
but the fact is, that the hero of WATERLOO has been
outwitted by a handful of crafty priests.

A trial took place yesterday in the Court of Common
Pleas, which was of much importance to the freedom of
discussion at public meetings. The plaintiff most mildly
and inoffensively had stated his opinions in support of his
own, and the general interests. The defendant ad-
journed his reply till the meeting was over ; when he
made use of an argementung ad hominemto the plaintiff,
which—if it were allowed—would soon gag effectually
the rightful freedom of debate in every assembly. The
Jury thought so ; and, very properly, gave an admonitory
verdict of Fifty Pounds.

40.—_
The roads are in su ate from snow and floods,
that the mail-coaches have been more obstructed than for
many years past. One-half of the mail-coaches only
had reached the General Post Office by nine o'clock this
morning ; and the letter-carriers were dispatched with
such letters as had arrived up to half-past ten—at
which hour none of the Western Mails had come in.

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Owing to the great fall of mow, the inland letters were not de-
livered this morning until a very late hour. Consequently we are
deprived u yet of shipping intelligence. The French malls also
remain due. Consols opened this morning at the ume price they
left of yesterday, 946 to i for February and 931 for money, but at
present the market is not so good, and Consols may be quoted 94
sellers, with little or nothing doing. This being the day of paying
and receiving the differences of their accounts, the brokers and
jobbers are actively employed in the above transactions.

The Washington Papers state that dispatches have been received
from Mr. Moore, American Minister at Columbia, stating that he
has succeeded in procuring admission of the justice and validity of
most of the American claims on the Columbian Government.

Accounts from Savannah bring Information that the Hebrew
Synagogue on the South Common has been destroyed by fire.

The total receipt of the Government of the United States from
1789 to 1828, for customs, internal revenue, and direct taxes, was
70,945,491,333 dollars; the expenditure during the same period
was less between six sad seven millions—the balance In the Treasury
in January, 1828.

Account. from Portn Rico of filth November, state that seven
young men were executed there, condemned as pirates,

It appears in the American Papers, received this morning. to the
17th December, . very long report from the Secretary of the
Navy to the President—in which he states that the naval force of
the United States which has been kept up during the present year,
has been composed of the dill' squadrons employed in cruising
on the stations heretofore assigned them; it also states, that the
present confused and unsettled condition of the fiscal concerns of
the Navy Department. ma►es it proper that the subject be brought
to the notice of Congress.

Quebec Papers to the sth December, Montreal to the 9th Dec.
and New Orleans to the 95th Nov. have been received at the North
and South American Coffee-house.—The Quebec Papers state,
that the Legislature of New Brunswick has been called for dispatch
of business, by the President. on Tuesday, 14th January.

The hfontreal Papers say,*, We understand, that in consequence
of the Hudson Bay Company refusing to pay any part of the fund
belonging to the late North West Company, Mr. Ermatenger, as
agent, Is going to England, and intends to procure those creditors'
claims.

It has been objected to us by a Correspondent, that
we waste much of our political cartridge against men,
which might be employed so much more advantageously
against measures. We cannot plead guilty to the charge.
When we first commenced our labours upon the STAR,
which, it will be remembered, was converted all at once
from extreme Toryism to popular and constitutional as-
sertions, we told the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr.
PEEL—minims fidentes, certainly, but we told those
Ministers—that we would bear with them for the love
which we bear the country, and give them an un-
biassed trial. Suspending onr already justified preju-
dices—justified by their past political career—we
agreed to an armistice, and took up our position
only as a body of observation. Portugal, as regards
our foreign affairs, and the persecution instituted
against opinion at home, have been superabundant
tests: and though many more proofs of their misgovern-
ment, quite as unequivocal in flagrancy, might be cited
—if we chose to cite them—we will take our stand upon
these.

" The number of emigrants," says the Quebec Paper of the 3d
December, " who have landed at this port during the summer, has
been unusually great, and may be estimated at 17,000 to 18,000.
There are upwards of 10,000 from Ireland, 3,500 from England,
and 2,500 from Scotland."

The New Orleans Papers state, by accounts from the Havannah
of the Bth November, that an extraordinary duty has been put on
flour, coming from Spain in foreign bottoms, of five dollars per
barrel.

Another fire has taken place In the ill-fated city of Augustine—
the damages done is calculated at 20,000 dollars.

HALF-PAST ONE.

The Como! Market at present appears to be rather feverish;
Consols which were in the early part of the morning at 94i for
the account, have since been done at 94. and are at present at the
above price, for money:93i. It appears that a great quantity :of
stock is in the market, and money is in great demand in the House
at present.

There is very little doing in the New French Scrip. It may be
quoted at 1 per cent. premium. The Foreign market is inactive,
with little doing, and most of the prices are the same u yesterday.

LIURPOOL, J•N. 19.—Our Cotton market yesterday was very
dull; to-day, in consequence of the accounts from New Orleans,
Mobile, Charlestown, Savannah, &e. of the very few vessels load-
ing for Europe, it has again resumed the confidence of the latter
end of last week. The sale to-day amount to 1,000 bags.

Is our Correspondent—whom we know to be a man of
right feeling and enlightened mind—prepared to argue
that any good can come from individuals, who have
carried duplicity and a disregard of the national honour
into our foreign transactions, and the spirit of oppression
into their domestic government ? Did not the Noble Dux E,
ten years ago—in precisely the same spirit, as that in
which he governs now—avow his uncompromising hos-
tility to public liberty, and deride county meetings as a
farce ? The declamation—purely derisory then—is be-
come a reflection of terrible import now. At that time,
the overpowering blaze of a planet which has since set in
blood, rendered imperceptible the specks of minor malig-
nancy which circled round it, of which the Noble Dula
was one : but that star of tyranny is now extinguished,
and the speck beside it is grown up into a blazing
star. It is a fallacy of the most dangerous kind,
to dissuade from the personal resistance of such a man •
since it is clear that, while such a man remains at the
helm, that system alone in which he delights—
those measures only, which are consentaneous with
his principles—will be the rule of Government.
Nothing is to be hoped from the Duke of %Vaud NOTON :
all is to be apprehended.

The Dublin Register of Tuesday, received this day,
contains a' letter of upwards of three mortal columns,
closely printed, from the Lord MOUNTCASHZL to the
Bishop of F ERN s, and also a letter from Mr. O'Cox-
x ELL, in which he expresses himself not disposed to ap-
proach nearer the poor laws for Ireland than a heavy tax
upon absentees.
At the Conrt of Aldermen held on Tuesday a case was
decided which has for some time past occasioned much
discussion among the licensed victuallers of the metropolis.
It was an appeal by Messrs. limes, Walters, Westbrook,
and Davis, licensed victuallers of the Ward of Cheap,
against being compelled to act as constables, having
been chosen on St. Thomas's Day, or pay the fine.
By Act of Parliament, any licensed victualler serving
as constable absolutely loses his license. The licensed
victuallers referrred to gave notice of appeal on being
chosen, and on Tuesday the case was heard in the Court
of Aldermen, at which Mr. Alderman Wood presided
for the Lord Mayor. The appellants alluded to several
portions of .the Acts of Parliament regulating licensed
victuallers, to prove that they were not liable to be
called upon to serve as constables. By the 3d of Gee. IV.
it is enacted that licensed victuallers shall be disqualified
to serve as constables, and that, if any licensed victualler
did take upon himself the office, he should lose his
license. The appellants submitted they were not bound
to find a deputy or act themselves. The Court, after some
deliberation, decided that the appellants were excused
from serving the,ffice of constable, and thus set the ques-
tion at rest.

These remarks are not made in individual ill-will,
but they are wrung from us by the injuriousness of the
imputation. Our Correspondent wya--it is not men
about whom we are solicitous, but measures ; let us
look to these. Granted : but if that man—who is opposed
by interest, and in spirit, more than all other men, to
the measures which we feel can alone be salvatory—
be not removed from the direction of things, in what
way can we show our solicitude with regard to " mea-
sures," which shall not involve our denunciation of de
only obstacle to their adoption? Is it not evid•lnt,
that the most efficacious method of compassing the d♦-
sired measures, is by compassing fuit the removal. 6f
their special impediment? The Noble Dunn is the

A curious appearance presented itself early yesterday
(Wednesday) morning on the southern side of the River
Thames by the great quantity of snow which had
fallen, which so completely covered the boats that were
aground as to leave no visible trace of them whatever,
exhibiting to the eye one beautiful sheet of downy sur-
face. When the watermen went to look after their boats,
the first Impression was that they had been stolen ; but
upon second reflection they were inclined to believe that
they lay buried beneath a thick covering of snow. A
gals soon arose, which convinced them that the last con-
, elusion was the most accurate, as the flaky element was
then lifted from its bed, and carried in showers in differ-
ent directions, leavinetheir mall vessels once again in
the possession of their rightful owners.

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