Star.
London, England, 1827-03-29 00:00:00

CORN LAWS.

Mr. WARBURTON presented a Petition from Man-
chester, praying for the removal of all restrictions upon
the Corn Trade. The Honourable Member said that
he did not like to allude to rumours that were abroad
elsewhe4e, but he must take that opportunity of saying,
that he was sorry to hear that the Country Gentlemen
intended, on the second reading of the Corn Bill, to
oppose the Warehousing of Corn. He hoped that this
report was not true: if it was, and the opposition was
successful, it would be destructive to all foreign trade,
and matters would be rendered worse than they were
in 1815.—The Petition was ordered to be printed.

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Mr. DENISON presented a Petition from Tooting, in Surrey,
complaining of the Poor Laws.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MAXWELL presented a Petition from the Sawyers and
others of Rochester, praying that a Committee might be appointed
to inquire into the distresses occasioned by the itte of machinery.
Mr. JOHN SMITH said, that he did not think the country
would have been able to bear the distresses which had lately pre-
vailed, lilt had not been for the wealth that bad been created by
machinery. The Hon. Member then alluded to the beneficial effects
which had resulted from the books that had been published in
Scotland, explaining the uses and effects of niachinory, sod recom-
mended the adoption of the same practice in this country.
The Petition was then ordered to be printed.
Mr. SYKES gave notice of a motion for the eth of May, to in-
quire into the state of certain voters in CornwalL
Sir H. PARNELL presented a Petition from a parish in Ireland,
praying for Catholic estouuipation.
Mr. MACQUEEN presented a Petition from Dartford, in the
county of Kent, against any alteration in the Corn Laws.
On the motion of Mr. Hagan% the Cconnsitteesof Supply and
Ways and Means were postponed tin Friday nest.

GOIM or narrates= aux.
On the 'ANJOU of Sir R. Wilson, the Douse resolved itself into a
Committee on the Costs of Distresses Rill, and the Report was or-
dered to be received to-morrow. -The Housetben resumed.
Sir A. G,RANT brought in a Bill for applying certain sums of
money, being part of the 'apply for the year 1127.
The Bill was read a lint time, and ordered to be read a second
don tomorrow. •
WEAVIRS9 WAGES.
Mr. d. SMITH presented a Petition from the Cotton
Weavers of Great and Little Bolton, praying the House
to institute a public inquiry into the subject of wages.
They prayed that the masters should be bound by law
to a minimum rate of wages, below which they should
not be allowed'to give employment. The Hon. Mem-
ber dwelt upon the distress of the Petitioners, and ap-
pealed to the Right Hon. Secretary of State for the
Home Department, whether it would not be good
policy to grant their prayer, and appoint a Committee to
inquire into the subject?

Mr. Secretary PEEL said it was impossible to ap-
proach the consideration of the distresses which pre-
vailed among the class to which these petitioners be-
longed, without the deepest sympathy. He thought,
however, that these individuals would, upon reflection,
see that if Parliament acceded to their wishes, and in-
terfered upon this subject, their condition, far from
being ameliorated, would be rendered worse. • The
consequence of a legislative enactment such as the pe-
titioners prayed, would be, that inferior workmen should
be thrown altogether out of employ, and that women
and children, who now earned a few shillings a week,•
would then earn nothing. because it would be il-
legal for masters to employ persons at a sum less
than twelve shillings a week., He should have had
no objection to the subjeit being referred to a Com-
mittee, if it had not already been thoroughly examined.
On three several occasions Committees had been ap-
pointed to inquire into this very subject: these very per-
sons who now petitioned, had then an opportunity of
adducing every possible argument in favour of a mini•
mum of wages: the subject had been fully discussed,
and the Committees had found that the proposal could
not be acceded to. Would the appointment of another
Committee now have any other effect than that of raising
false hopes? The Right Hon. Gentleman then read a
passage from a Report of one of these Committees,
which stated the impossibility of such a plan as a mini-
mum of wages being reduced to practice, and a convic-
tion that any legislative interference on the subject would
only aggravate the distress.

Mr. HUME referred to the number of Petitions
which had been received on a former occasion from
the artisans sod operatives of different parts of the
country, complaining of the distress under which they
laboured, and attributing it to the effects of the
Combination Laws. A COmmittee upon that occa.
sion had beep appointed, to inquire into their cons-
plaints and thirty-three persons had been deputed
from different parts of the country to support the
allegations made in. their Petitions. The inquiry was
gone into openly and fairly, and the result of it was,
that every one of the thirty-three deputies had re-
turned to their homes perfectly convinced that their
distress was to be attributed almost to any other cause
than to the Combination Laws. He, therefore, was of
opinion, that another Committee ought to be appointed,
if for no other cause at least for this—that it would tend
to dispel the delusion which still prevailed in the minds
of some of the operatives upon this important subject.
After a few words from Mr. CURTI'S,
Mr. A BERCROMBY said, that if he could bring
himself to think that the appointment of another Com-
mittee, to inquire into this subject, would be of the least
service, he would willingly agree to its appointment;
but he was convinced that it never could attain the ob-
ject which his Hon. Friend proposed. He thought that
the best course which could be adopted would be, for
the Right Hon. Gentleman to circulate among the ope-
ratives the extract he had just read from the Report
on the Combination Laws, and also the evidence by
which that report was supported. It would tend more
than any other measure to put an end to the delusion
which at present reigned among the operatives.
After a few word, in explanation from• Mr. J. SMITH,
the Petition was laid co the table—or deredto be printed.
The other Gliders of the Day were then disposed 01;
and the House adjournel at a quarter paSt Six o'Clock.

'SHE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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TRUESDAY, M RCS 29, 1827.
STOCK EXCIIANGP., TWELVE O'CLOCK..
Both the City and Stock Eachange were thrown into yri:at
fusion this morning, caused by a report at Lloyd's, that an army
twtnty.fosr thousand men, French and Spaniards, !rad „,iterti
Portugal. Consols, which left of yesterday at 821 j, opsom
morning at SSI ; but soon after felt to Slit The alturewimh
not credited in the City.
In the Foreign market, Colombian Bonds are heavy, ad he
little is doing to other South American Securities,

Carron priers: OW Spanish 12 4. bleak= 70 4, caw**
40, Peruvian 34 35, Portuguese 754 764, Rusin 374 I, Da*
611 4.

CITY, TWO OCLOCE,
The Coma market remains steady at is/ 1, with Sale (kit..
Although the invashul of Portugal, by the Spaniards aad Pre&
is generally not believed, still there is abgreat anxiety hit bfthi

PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK,
Bank Stock Shut. India Stock Shot.
per Cent. Red. Shut. lndia Roods 99
T. per Cent. Coma 841 I I Old Annuities
Se per Cent. Shut.
Se per Cent. Red. Shut.
4 per Cent. New 971 99 97 1
4 per Cent. 1016, Shut.
Long Annuities Shot.
FORBION FLY
Chinon Benda 6p Ct. 56
Colombian Bonds,. p Ct.
Liao 8d5.1994, 40 e
110. Acct. 40e 40
Gr.11,-a15.19119.9p C. Ise
'and% -

zioop Exebelser Bas 40 4l
iioo Ditto 40 42
.1100 and 4200 Dine 41 42
Bask fat Amon
Cossolefor 717cce. tip
, TWO OtpOcit.
Ilez.Bris. p 0-4.1 i I
Ditto Acct. 70i
Peruvian Bondi 6p C. 341
Span. Bones 5 p Ct. 14 i
Duo Acct. al
Bonda,ite-

MCI. Va. .5 per Ct. 57j I Oa.. ,ist3,4e7/
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHAMIR, TWO O'CLOCK.
RIL PAID.

&mania° - 100 20 re 27
Potosi Ls Paz k Perms. Asso. SO S it 136,21 Rs
Real del Moore 400 400 47S tln
RiCHANGS.S.
Amerssorm, Masco 23.—0 n Londoe, 11. MI 2M. 11. N
HIMISUKIII, MARCH 20.-0 o Load's, 37. 2M.M. S.
Sr. Prrassavaam, Masco 11.-011 Londe% 3 M.lO.
Fames FORDS, Masco W. re. per Cents 20.35 C.
Three per Cents. 70f. loc. But Stock, 1,99 M. Sesta*
Naples, 76f. 40c.--Renter cr Naparke, 11* Royal Spasiek Lau„
152j6—Cloars .doMeatipse.

By the Vigilant ketch, arrived at Falmouth is tea
days from Lisbon, Government have received die.
patches to the 17th instant, from Sir WILLIAM HAM
Crawrox, at the British head-quarters, at Coimbra.—
By the same conveyance, e have received the follow.
ing interesting communication :

COIMBRA, Mum It.

II The Rebels after being pursued by Count
Flor from Moncor►o to Miranda, and by General ,
Mello to Bragattaa, united their forces at the north-east
extremity of Tras-os-Montes, between Vinseoso and Mi
rands. It was intended to attack them in their position
close to the Spanish frontier on the 9th, but, on
evening of the 7th, they entered Spain, and were dis•
armed at Alcanizos and its neighbourhood ; so we nay
now consider affairs at an end in that quarter .
our expedition seems likely to turn out a very harmless
lone ; not, however, that our taking no share in the field
operations is any proof of our inefficient sevices. On
contrary; the favourable result is mainly to be attribu.,
to the presence of a British Army, and the advice and
directions of its excellent Commander-in• Chief, with

whom everybody is satisfied. No man certainly ever
possessed more of the ssaviter ie modo, with the fortiter
iis re. The Portuguese themselves—that is to say, •
sensible and liberal part of them—admit that Ports.
gel has been saved by the British Cabinet from
ride of the Apostolicals, and the diabolical wan)
of the Priests of Ferdinand.
" There has been dreadful weather, and many ship.
wrecks on the coast of Portugal. A small vessel went
to pieces at Mira, near Aveiro; one Woman drowned.
The Oporto packet, having on board two Chaplains
the Army, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Dennis, was wrecked
near Villa de Condit, north of Oporto: nine perms
were diowned, and among them Mrs. Dennis and her
servant boy.
" This very day an Ensign of the 4th Regiment, M
Massey,. whilst riding out, wishing to join some brother
Officers on the opposite side of a pool of water, in .
tempting to ride through it, sunk into a quicksand, sod
instantly disappeared, and the body is not yet found."

We have received Lisbon Papers to the 18th instant.
The intelligence which they contain, though imports
and highly, satisfactsry, does not inspire, however, much
interest, as the most material part of it had previously
reached us through other channels. The latest new
from the army is communicated in a dispatch from
Count de Vitt.r.4 nos, of the Bth, who was this
'at Arguzelo, close to the Spanish frontiers. Gene.
ral Mamas was at Pilsen., which is in the neigh-
bourhood; and both these enterprising Generals con-
tinned to act in concert. The former was preparing
to go to Braganca, and the latter to Gamin; to watch
the movements of the rebels, who passed into Spain
the 7th, and prevent their recrossing the frontiers.—
However, these precautions, though furnishing Pill'
worthy proofs of vigilance on the part of the Comics.
tional leaders, were, as our Readers know, rendered
superfluous by the measures taken by the Spanish
Authorities against the rebels.
There is not the slightest allusion in these Papers to
a rumour contained in private letters from Madrid of
the 29th inst. stating that accounts had reached thin
capital, announcing the proclamation of a general am•
nesty to every person concerned in the rebellion. It to
probable that some healing useastve to this effect wan
in contemplation ; but that it had not been proclaimed
in sufficient time to be known in Madrid on the 29th to
obvious, from the silence of the Papers before us. It
the meantime, the decided proofs which the Spani.b
Governmeat has given of its paci6c disposition, aid
which, we perceive, were known in the Portugue4
capitsl on the 16th, will be a strong inducement

Publish a general pardori, as it Gan mei be ascribed to
generous motives alone, and not to a timid and truck-
beg policy. As the rebellion is now! effectually min-
fluiibed the. sonnet. perhaps, that all vestiges of it are
'
diced. the better; though it may be prudent to ex-
cept t'c heads of this unnatural movement from any
Act ~f Grace, until they have at least given the most
convincing
proof! of their repentance. Of this num-
be are the Sttveleas, who appear to have un itre.
igibie turn for intrigue, and who probably would,
were they immediately pardoned, revert, as soon
ss they should see a favourable opportunity, to their
old practices. They are at the same time too closely
onnected with the incorrigible enemies of liberty in
ether countries, to render their return safe, or at least
advisable, for the present; and their inclusion in any
amnesty, would besides hold out an encouragement
or other intriguers to follow in their footsteps. If
the conciliatory disposition, • recently evinced by the
Spanish Government, have a tendency to weaken some
of the foregoing objections, it must be allowed that
the Spanish Monarch is only absolute in such mat-
ters, as do not shock the prejudices or interests of
the dominant faction in his kingdom. He must not op-
pose their wishes in too pointed a manner, if he be
anzious to oit:peaceably•em his throne, and how incon-
sistent these wishes are with the continuance of tran-
quillity in Portugal, and, above.aU, with the consolida-
tion of her,ersent Government, is matter of perfect no-
toriety. It will be therefore necessary to watch the move-
ments of that faction, notwithstanding any pledges
which his CATHOI•IC MAJICSTY has given, or may still
give of his desire to conciliate Portugal. If it be true,
nwe stated yesterday, in a small part of oar impres-
sion, that the Spanish Ambassador, the Duke of VILLA
Ibutstosa, has been recalled from Paris, we should
regard it as an unequivocal sign of a change of pO.
)icy in the cabinet of Madrid, as well as of a determi-
nation on its put to slip out of the leading-strings of
the Apos:olicali.

Dutch Papers to the 24411, and Hamburgh to the 21st, I
came to hand this morning, We learn by the former,
that the Commission composed of General Officers, ,
appointed to inquire into the cause of the disasters
which had befallen the ships which were to convey
troops to Java, war still sitting at the Hague, but their
proceedings were kept secret. The troops saved from
the Wassenaer, were immediately to be forwarded to
their destination in transports, engaged for the purpose.
Great apprehensions were entertained at the Hague,
from the effects of a dreadful storm, which raged there
on Sunday week. .Out of forty-three fishing smacks,
whim had sailed from Sc-hevening two days before,
only siz returned to port on the Wednesday following.
These Papers also relate fresh disasters,. occasioned by
the breaking of the dikes. . _ _ _

We learn from the sane Papers that Prince MADA-
top, to whom the execuave branch of the military
operations against the Persians is confided, undertook
on the 18th January another incursion towards Ahar,
and, after releasing some Nomade families whom the
Persians had carried off from Schirvan and Karabaseh,
returned on the 28th of the same month to the Araxes,
without encountering any oppasition.
Accounts from Christiania, in the liesburgh Papers,
say that the resolution of the Xing of Swann.) to re-
serve for the next Storthing the decision on the proposed
alterations in the Constitution, and only to recommend
the consideration of them to the present Storthing, has
given great satisfaction to that Assembly ; and that the
Kum never felt so much satisfaction in any former visit
to Norway as he has experienced in the present. We
learn through the same channel, that from the Ist April,
one of the new steam-boats built in England for the Nor-
wegian Government will perform every week the voyage
between Fredericksvaern and copenhagencand touch at
Gothenburg, both in going and on its return. The
other steamboat will ply between Christiania and Chris-
tiansand. By this arrangeMent, it is said, the intercourse
between Norway and Denmark will be greatly facili-
tated. Accounts from Heisenberg mention, that masses
of floating ice had been so -firmly connected in the
Sound by the frost, that people passed over from that
place to Elsinore. Some lives, however, were lost in
the attempt.

It would appear that the manufacturing of cotton

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has been making considerable progress in Prussian
Silesia for some time past. At Ullendorf, near Glair.,
a cotton•yarn manufactory, belonging to a Mr. LIND-
'WU, produces every week 6,0001b5. of excellent yarn
of every No. which is said to be equal in quality to the
English. The annual value, which formerly was at
most 62,000 dollars, is now 90,000 dollars. This sum,
which was formerly paid to foreigners, is now saved to
the State by a single manufactory, which, besides,
affords employment to 500 persons.

Recent accounts from Cuxhaven say. that in a storm

from the N.N.E. in the night of the 17th, the American
brig Curlew, and the Carl Henrick, from Rio Janeiro,
were stranded near that places Another American brig,
"thich had sailed from Hamburgh, and two Greenland
whalers are reported to have met the same fate near Al-
tenbruch.

The following is an extract of a letter from
ST. PETEKSBURGH, Mans 7.
The Palace Otanienbaum, belonging to the late
Emperor Alexander, together with the villages and de-
pendencies attached to it, was to be divided between
his Majesty the present Emperor and his two brothers;
but his M.sjesty has renounced his share in favour of the
(,rand Dukes Consrantinr and Michael and their heirs•

Tire EARL or ',mamma—His Lordship remained
in the same favourable state; his regular Physician,
Dr.Datvest attended his Lordship as usual yesterday
11;,^1"'"r• 'hit only persons who have access to the
°vial( Eal are Lady LtezerOoa and his au:mints. •