Star.
London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Mercantile Letters, of the 10th ultimo, have been
received from Savannah, (via Liverpool), but they
contain nothing worthy of particular notice. Their
chief object is to solicit information as to the state
of the markets on this side of the Atlantic, par-
ticularly Cotton, Tobacco, and other produce; aqd
whether there are prospects of any increased demand
for these articles. Prices there remained the same as
at the close of October last (which were given in the
STAR.) These letters repeat the fact of the mere weal-
thy Philters havng baled their Cotton, and lodged it
in their stores, being determined to ship no more
until they derived more favourable accounts of the
state of the English markets. If they act under the
supposition that any mates ial advance will take place
in the price of the raw material, they will most cer-
tainly be disappointed, at least for some time to
come; for the quantity already in the country was
never known to be so great as at the present time,
and large quantities are continually arriving from
the East Indies,

M.I.VCIIESTER, JANUARY 13.
There is a great stir making among the Reformer
here and at Stockport, in order to muster all their
strength for the Public Meeting at this place, on
Monday next. After the Meeting there is to be a
grand dinner, at which HENRY HUNT, Esq. will pre-
side. The ostensible object of the Meeting is to Pe-
tition for a Repeal of the obnoxious Corn Bill : an ob-
ject in itself truly laudable and praiseworthy; but,
from the known violent temper of the Bristol orator,
and some others who are named as leaders on the
occasion, the peaceable and well-disposed inhabitants
jam apprehensive that mischief may ensue. The
owners of the principal cotton-mills and other large
works, intend taking measures to prevent their work-
people, particularly the juvenile part of them, from
attending the Meeting in question. These precau-
tions are not adopted in any spirit of hostility to the
peoples' right of petitioning, nor from any friendly
feeling towards the Corn Bill; but merely on account
.of the combustible nature of the materials of which
it is apprehended the Meeting will be composed.
The cause of Reform, or the right of Petition, can
never derive any benefit from the intemperate
harangues of such men as Mr. HUNT and his co-

adjuto-rs.
A Meeting, it is understood, will be convened, (as
soon as dcconsm will permit) after the assembling of
Parliament, at the requisition of some of the princi-
pal inhabitants of this populous and extensive town,
praying the Legislature not to entertain or give
countenance to the Agricultural Petition, which is
still clandestinely travelling through the kingdom ;
and has, I am sorry to say, met with many sup-
porters in the County of Lancaster—a county, which
of all ahem owes the most to the extent and circu-
lation of its manufactures; against which the afore-
said Patition.aisas.a most vital and deadly blow.

At, the Herefordshire Agriculturist Dinner, on Fri-
day last, the meeting was decidedly against the in-
tended Agricultural Petition to Parliament, for im-
posing high.pratecting duties on " Corn, meat, flour,
rye, oats, peas, beam, barley, wool, flax, hemp►
bides, tallow,- weds, butter, cheese, poultry, vege-
tables, atyles;• and pears,", sw.injorious to the con-
sancerts,-susl-'aitimincly ruinous -to the farns'ers and
grt,m •re.