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the Public, seystral parties being inclined to become
purchasers.
Thar additional accommodation should be required
in the Port of London will not appear surprising, when
it is known that since the Ist of January last, as com-
pared with an equal period of the preceding year, the
number of ships which have entered the Port from fo-
reign parts (exclusive of the Coasting Trade, which has
also materially increased) has experienced an augmenta-
tion Of about nine hundred sail of vessels. The pro-
gressive increase which has taken place in our Foreign
Trade during the last three years, intimately connected
as it is with the subjects which have occupied the Atten-
tion of the Committee, has induced us to refer back
to the labours of that Committee.
The industry, ability, and perseverance which have
marked the progress of its labours, deserve peculiar at-
tention. Upwards of twenty different subjects connected
with our trade and navigation, all embracing matters
of national importance in the improvement of our com-
mercial code, have successively occupied their unre-
mitting and serious attention. We have read with much
interest the whole of the Reports they have from time
to time presented to the House of Commons, and have
been particularly struck with the ability and great prac-
tical knowledge displayed by many of the witnesses exa-
mined by the Committee.
It is from sources like these that materials may with
safety be collected, and from which conclusions can be
correctly drawn. The value of those Reports may he
estimated from several of the recommendations therein
contained having been adopted by Parliament, and
others tacitly acquiesced in by Public Bodies, which
rendered legislative interference unnecessary. The effi-
cacy of those measures in promoting the interests of our
commerce and navigation, notwithstanding the gloomy
predictions of particular interests, has been clearly de-
monstrated, and we are now reaping the fruits of them.
The various heads of inquiry which have formad the
proceedings before the Committee, have consisted
of the Navigation Laws, Warehousing System; East
India Trade with Europe, Timber Duties, Dover and
Ramsgate Harbour Dues, West India Dock Charter,
Trinity Corporation Dues, Pilotage Rates, Ballastage,
QuarAntilie Dues, Separation of the Customs from the
Excise, Consulage Fees and Regulations, London Port
D ides, &c.—and we cannot conclude without noticing
particularly the evidence given by Mr. Hall, which fur-
nishes a miss of information upon all these points, and
of which the Committee appear to have made an im-
portant use.

l'IlE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1824.
KING WILLIAM LANDED.--HOLIDAY •T TIM BANE.
THE FUNDS.

ROYAL EXCHANGE. TWELVF. O'CLOCK.

This being a Ifoliday at the Stock Exchange, very little business
has been done in Consols, which are only at a nominal price-963
for the Account.

FOREIGN FUNDS. •

The Turvig,n 'Alatket remains open, but little business is doing.

Current Priers: New Spanish 13 16, Old 21, Buccian 966,
Tlexican 66tt I, Colombian New 846 85, Old 82/. Chi Han 790,
French Scrip 341; pre. Austrian 9( ex die. New Neapolitan 111 to
2 pre. New Prussian 190/, Old 991, Alliance Shares 111 124 pre.
Portuguese 954, Buenos Ayres 1 pre. Brazilian 21 3 pre. Peru-
vian 72 73, Greek 4 36 disc.
FOREIGN EXCIIANGF.S.
lIANINURGH, Orr. 2G.—On London, 56. 5. 2 Us. 36. 2.
PETERWHIGH, OCT. 12.—0 n London, 9. 2-7.2.
LEIPSIC, OCT. 22.—0 n London, ; M. 6. 144.
131CRLIN, Oen. 23.—0 n London, 3 M. 6.19,1.

Ilamb.urgh Papers to the 26th ult. reached us this
forenoon. One of them contains an article of an old
date ftom Tunis, relating the joy of the Mussulmans at
the taking of Ipsara, and denominating our compelling
the Der of Algiers to:accept our terms, a defeat. The
Tunis article is an echo of one which appeared some
weeks ago in Paris, and is, we suspect, of European,
rather than of Aft ican, manufacture :
• TUNIS, AUGUST 30.

The account of the taking of Ipsai a has been received
here, and has raised the courage of the Mussulmans, to
which the news of the events at Algiers has contributed.
Ti:ere is scarcely anybody here, whether Moor or Turk,
that does not consider the English as defeated.
The Tuscan brig, out of which a Greek privateer
took (in the spring) the goods belonging to Moors, and
paid the freight for them, still lies here under sequestra-
tion, as the Hey persists in hi; determination, that the
flag shall be answerable for the merchandize.