Star.
London, England, 1822-03-15 00:00:00

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The 5 per cents. have got up a half per cent. within the last
hour; they are now 104 ►Many -parties who had sold are now
repurchasing, and the Market louts very favourable. Bets are
made of twenty guineas to receive a hundred, that the dissents
will not exceed three millions at the close to-morrow.

CURRENT PRICES OF STOCKS
3 per Cent. Consols 791/2 791 A
5 per Cent. 102% 1/2 s/s
Imperial 3 per Cents. 79
India Bonds 445. 48s. pre.
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 4s. Is. 3s. pre.
Ditto small ss. 2s. ss. pie.
Consols for Acct. 793/8 5/8 1/2.

We are at a loss to account for the carelessness with which the
mercantile and manufacturing interests have allowed the gaffers
to proceed so far, unrebuked, in their attempt to tax the wages
of the operative artizans—We say in their attempt to tax, for
what else than such an attempt can their incessant petitioning be
considered ? That carelessness may in some degree proceed from
their contempt for " the Irrongheads," and from the ancient and
notorious fact that the country gentlemen of England—" the
Galas" so called—are at once the most selfish and narrow-
minded caste of the whole British community !—From the ear-
liest periods, when their interest first began to clash, as they sup-
posed, with those of the trading part of the nation, they have never
ehewn themselves as a body capable of understanding one principle
of national policy, except such as in operation went immediately
and directly to benefit themselves. The entire history of their
interference with matters of Commerce, is one continued series
of blunders, followed by calamities : Their greedy endeavours to
keep up the war value of land, when the price of every other
valuable thing is depreciated to a peace ratio, has already, as the
Canadian Petitions presented the other night to Parliament
thew, gone a great way towards ruining the trade of that Pro-
vince. and has had, combined with the consequences of the late
American war, the most deplorable effects on the prosperity of
one of the most industrious, loyal, and brave portions of the Em-
pire. It is only since 1815, when their famous Corn Bill passed,
that any restrictions have been imposed upon the 'agriculture of
Canada, and yet, forsooth, the interests of the landlords of
England are not to be sacrificed to those of the Canadians; as if
the success of a trade, lucrative to the merchants and manufac-
turers concerned in it, was likely to prove injurious to those in_
terests. But this outcry is of a piece with their history from the
beginning.—ln the reign of Charles -the Second, the Greer:,
conceiving the produce of their estates to be reduced in value by
the TIME importation of cattle and grain from Ireland, procured
a law to be passed t• prohibit the importation of such commodi-
ties. The Irish, being thus prevented from importing into Eng-
land, were obliged to kill their superfluous cattle, and to salt
them for exportation—by which circumstance the Irish trade in
salted provisions was formed, and the poor purblind Gapes of Eog•
gland were cut out from cultivating-a branch of commerce, which
might have proved most lucrative to themselves, and been a more
natural way of improving the value of their estates, than themeans
which they, in their collective wisdom devised, in order to arrest
the agricultural improvement of Ireland !—But, although the
Irish were thus taught, by the oppression of the English Gaffers,
to seek new outlets for their provisions, it was some time be-
fore they succeeded in obtaining an adequate market for " the
abundance" which had, in consequence, become " an evil"--sts
that their sheep were allowed to encrease merely for the sake of
wool alone, by which that article was rendered much cheaper in
Ireland than in England, and the effect was, that the Irish be-
came again prejudicial to the monopoly of the English. The
witless Gaffer: of that titre', accordingly found that they had
over-reached themselves—for the cheapness of wool in Ireland
enabled the :risk to set up woollen mat.ufacteres of their own,
and their rivalry was soon felt in a diminished demand for
English woollens.

In 1699 an Act was actually ps• -ed by the sage and sapient
Gaffers to prohibit the exportation of woollen manufactures
from Ireland to atiy place eziept l'algland and Wales; even to

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England and Wake the exportation was so unmercifully restricted
that this was an indulgence in words only : the consequence wars
that many of the Irish Manufacturers were obliged to seek employ-
ment in foreign countries, and the greater number went toffranee ;
by theni the woollen manufactures of that kingdom were esta-
blished, and by their connection a clandestine exportation of
wool from Ireland was carried on, so that the French soon
made sufficient cloth fee themselves, and became the rivals of
the English In the foreign markets. That nor limits to-day do
not allow us to proceed with the view which we intended to
have given of the destructive comequences of that policy which
the Wrevegkends of the House of Commons have pursued for so
many years. To-morrow we shall perhaps again show in what
manner their saying " Aye," when they should have said
" No," has frustrated their own sordid patriotism:
In the meanwhile we beg the country at large to consider that
the clamour about agricultural distress is, in effect, a complaint
against the abundance with which Hese= has blessed the coun-
try, at a time when the wages of all kinds of labour are reduced
as low as possible, and has for its object to increase the price of
meat and bread.

By the Paris Journals of Tuesday, it appears that the dis-
turbances in that capital are not subdued. On Sunday, some
young men, of different conditions, collected, to the number of
two or three hundred, and crying, " Vive la Charte, Vive la'
Liberte !" proceeded about nine in the evening on the Bouvelard,
directed their march over the Place de la Bastille, in the streets
of St. Antoine, Ste. A strong patrol of gendarmes on horseback,
and subsequently troops of the line, woe posted in the Place
de la Bastille, till eleven o'clock at night.
The Government has at length been compelled to acknow-
ledge the existence of these disturbances, in the following Pro-
clamation from the

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eneted. a comtirkeable pontos of do* amines. maisiog s chnic•
of their most valuable elects. soar peevat algetting the d .
dos on 'odds to lo• sold ha a tummy h! pretended to have
session of—thus establishing a eustons-boust no the high seas!_
The Tea Plant. with 60 Image's, are at Amon, where every
thing is tmnsmitts.d by land to Lima. San Martin has as yet
allowed nothing but provisions to he transported to that