Star.
London, England, 1826-01-05 00:00:00

SILK TRADE.

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FROM THR COVENTRY MERCURY.

A Deputation of Gentlemen concerned in the Silk
Trade, consisting of the principal ribbon manufacturers
of Coventry, and silk throwsters from various parts of
the kingdom, had an interview with some of the Mi.
Miters at the house of Lord Liverpool, on Thursday
se'nnight, on the subject of the law respecting
.foreien
importations, which will come into operation in July
next. Besides Lord Liverpool, there were present the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Huskisson, Mr.Gtant,
and Mr. Herries. The appeal was ineffectual, as ap-
pears by the following official reply :
"Dies of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
December 21. 3825.
18 GIWTLEMEN— After a most atte tive consideration
by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, clrij intly with this\proard, of all the
circumstances and statements which wese brought for.
ward on the 22d instant, in the &scullion which took
place at Fife House, in respect to the proposed diminu-
tion on the duty en undyed thrown silk, from 7s. 6d. to
ss. the pound, 1 am directed to inform you, that it does
not appear that sufficient grounds have been made nut
KO induce this Board to relinquish the intention of sub-
mitting to Parliament a proposal for reducing the ex-
isting duty to ss. so long as the duty on raw bilk shall
not exceed 3d. per pound, leaving a protection to t e
English throwster of 45.91 per pound, which the Lords
of the Committee have ascertained, Mould exceed the
protection which was 'deemed sufficient in 1792. when
the duty on raw silk was Ss. per pound, and that upon
thrown silk 7s. 4d. and when it may be fairly assumed
that the machinery used in the manufacture was 10 A
much less improved state than at present.
" I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient bumble servant,
THOMAS S. LACK.
" To Messrs. Pattison, Ste. &c." •

Dovan, JAN. S —Prince METTERNICH, jun. arrived
here this day. He had a most boisterous passage from Calais, and
though the night was excessively cold, he set out with all possible
haste for London. We are further informed that Prince Sexca-
nazv's presence at our Court cannot be dispensed with, and that
his establishment at Paris will be transferred to Chandos house.
The United States Papers last received contain some
intelligence from South
America. The accounts from Lhasa are to
the tOth of August, at which time Callao still held out; and one of
the letters states, that the Governor, Roam, declared, " that Wore
he surrendered be will eat his horses; and after that, he will make
soup of the saddles and bridles." Other letters, however, state,
the place would, in all probability, not bold out more than three or
four weeks larger.
A Covered market of 100 feet Square, and 25 feet
high; is about to be erected at Brighton, to be called
Brunswick Market.
COMURRCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOClETE.—Tuesday the
twenty-sixth anniversary of this Society was celebrated
Righter! also Hon
preens
thesent LToultboteat the Old London Tavetn, Bishopsgwe-street, the
lle W A"k
in the Clair.—Tliere
Minn, EA. M It Malt
PRICR. Esq. Colonel Tortaam., and *bent three bun-
died Members and Friends of the S c et,. The we t-
ing passed off with the greateA conv.vi.tlity, and ,he
,übscriptions were-
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• HOWARD.AND GIBBS' CREDITO

Yesterday a•Meking (lithe Creditori of Howaitand'
Tibbs was convened, ptirsuant to an. Advettisenimat
the Gazelle of the 13th of Decesisber. Mr. Sum* was
tailed to the Chair. -

Mr. S rEPH ZNS stated, that the circumstances that
to the present meeting were these—A proposal of coat-.
promise of the debts due in various ways by Lord Al-
vanley to the Bankrupts estate was made in the course
of the summer, '20,0001. was the sum offered. This tam
WAS rejected on the part of the creditors. In the month
ni Sistember another offer of 30,0001. was made, which
offer was rejected also, with approval of the creditors,
and ibis was accompanied with an intimation• that
.10 000/. would be accepted in lieu of all ilairiss.—
This e.nonsunication he (Mr. S.)- made to Mr. Powell,
the Solicitor of L-rd Alvanley's Trustees, accompanied
with a statement of the accounts to which his Lord-
ship's estates were liable, andthe amount of the various
demands upon him ; the amount at which he stated
them was 53,7371. I3s. 3d. but that 40,( 00/. would
be accepted, and a sacrifice of the difference be made,
to avoid hostile proceedings. If, however, the propo-
sal t , pay that sum within a reasonable time was not
acceded to, not a shilling more would be abated, and
proceedings should be forthwith taken for the recovery
of the whole demand. To this communication he re-
ceived a reply from Mr. Powell, stating, that 30,0001.
was proposed on the part of the Trustees of Lord
Alvanley, as one which, in their opinion, would
cover all that was legally due to the Bankrupt's
e,tate, and that they could not, consistently with
their duty to the interests coi,fided to their cape,-
propose a larger sum than 30,0001. The let-
ter further proposed, in the event of this propo-
sition not being acceded to, to leave the w hole of the
transactions to at bitration. The letter further held out
the prospect of the money being ready shortly after
Christmas, from the sale of some of the estates. Circum-
stances stood in this position, and it remained for the
creditors to decide what was the course for them now
to pursue.

Mr. POWELL then addressed the Meeting, be said
they would no doubt be startled to hear that between,
she months of March and October, in the year in which
the bankruptcy took place, there had been negotiated
bills and sums in different ways, to which Lord Alvan-
Icy had been a party, to the amount of 150,0001. Of'
this money so negotiated, Lord Alvanley had only re-
ceivr-d 30,0001. If it appeared, therefore, that this
motley was not for Lord Alvatriey's use, but to assist
the Louse of Howard and Gibbs in their pecuniary
embarrasments, it would be.ome a question whe-
ther the whole of these dealings. did not strongly
pattake of the character of a legal fraud? And it it
did, of course the security that arose out, of them
would fall to the ground. Again, the commission
that had been charged upon discc unting those bills,l
was enormous; there was a charge of 10,0001. for cam-
mission and stamps, where the legal charge ought only
to have been five or 6001. They were discounted
sometimes at 101. 201. and upwards per cent.

A CRIEDITOR—Aye, and sometimes £lOO per cent. I was my-
seff offered £l,OOO for £7OO.

A desultory conversation then took place as to the question of
referring the accounts to arbitration, which, it appeared, had been
objected to on the part of the assignees, because Mr. Powell, as
Lord Alvanloy's agent, insisted on the whole accounts being re-
npeneWto be referred. At length it was agreed that a future Meet-
ing of the creditors 'Mind be called, to take into consideration the
receiving from Lord Alvanley's Trustees the sum of £30,500 in
gull of all demands. ,

.REDUCTION IN THE PRICii•OF BEER.—We under-
stand it is the intention of the Brewers to reduce the
price of the Porter to sd. per quart. The reduction to
commence from this day.
REDUCTION IN THE DUTY ON SPIRITS.—The new ,
duty commences this day, and is 7s. per imperial gallon
on all spirits made in England, and the same duty on
ail spit its manufactured in Scotland and Ireland, and
imported into this country. The spirit to be hydrometer
proof, or if exceeding or falling short thereof, to pay in
proportion. The duty on Ruin will be Si. 6d. per im-
penal gallon. The reduction will be about 2s. per gallon
on British Spirits, exclusive of the addition to the mea-
sure (about Is. 6d. more) and in Rums the consumer
will gain the additional measure, and perhaps a small
addition to the strength.
For some time since there has been established at
Paris a company of forgers, who made, for 250 or
SOO francs, extracts from the registers, proving the
death of persons who, they said, had perished in the
Russian Campaign. They effected this by effacing the
names of soldiers really dead, by some chemical
process, and substituting other names in their stead. To
the
,surprise of some widows and heirs, persons pre-
sumed dead have returned, and thus the forgery has
been brought to light.
Some of Loyola's disciples, is their zeal, undertook to
purge the library at St. Jean de Losner, of improper
books, and sea away parts *f Voltaire, of Rousseau,
and Montesquieu. Bossuet was to have been treated in
the same manner, when their occupation was discovered,
and they have, however, been deprived of
.the means of
performing such services in future.
Sunday evening last, the dwelling-house of Mr. Cod-
ling, a Genilenian residing at Stockwell-green, was
broken into by some notorious thieves, and plundered
of vat ions articles of property, among wh:ch was a silver
watch, with appendages; several silver spoons, two, fur
tippets, a quantity of linen, a suit of black clothes, &c.
'Jo the same evening. the house of Mr. Barker, in Earl-
street, Lesson-grove, was forcibly entered, and robbed
of about three dozen silver table and tea-spoons, a silver
era and milk-ewer, a miniature set in diamonds, a gold
topaz ring, surrounded with ditto; a pearl necklace,
and ear-rings besides other articles of jewellery, &c.
Another Gold Mine has been discovered in North
Carolina, Ouse miles aboye the narrows of. the Yadkin
River, which is represented to be very rich. A Company
has been for Med in the counties of Rowan, Montgo-
mery, Arisen, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, and elsewhere,
for tt:e purpose of Working these mines systematically,
for which purpose they have procured a practical miner
from Europe, a Mr. Rothe, who, hem an examination
t the country, entertains an opinion, that this section of
North Carolina is the most 'extensive deposit
_of guld
indica° discovered in the world.—American Paper.
PURCHASING BANK NOTEII.—AsSOrtIe of our readers
tight perhaps be disposed to purchase, at a discount,
the notes of such banks as hive lately failed, we think
it right to state, fol. the information of those who may
not be acquainted with the law on the subject, that
persons who purchase notes after a commission of
bankruptcy has iisued against the bank by which they
"ere issued, cAnabt ptove on the estate, in respect of
such notes; and even if the notes. are purchased before
the bankruptcy; the piircluuer can only Prove for the
amount they really 'mad basiefae paid for thew.

4'ES Ni 1 NST ER SESSIONS—THIS DAY.
This.morning, the General Quarter Sessions for the
City .and Liberty of Westminster, commenced at the
Guilohall, heftsin Fay-Nets CoNsr, Esq. the Chairman,
-and a. Bench of Magistrates.
From the report presented, of the state of Toth ill-
fields prison, it appeared there were 115 prisoners, com-
mitted for ♦arious offences, and only six cases were
entered on the traverse paper.
Mr. ALLEN, Clerk of Arraigns, having sworn the Grand Jury,
The CHAIRMAN addressed them as follows:—" Gen-
tlemen, it is highly satisfactory for me to inform you,
that there is nothing which I have to dwell upon, that
will come before you, but your good, judgment and
long experience will enable you to perform, without a
remark from the Bench." The Grand Jury then retired,
to find the bills for felony, and, on the petit jury taking
their seats, the Court proceeded oa the traverse paper,
to try assault cases.