Star.
London, England, 1829-09-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COMPANY MONOPOLY.

According to returns printed by order of Parliament,
the trade of the Company. from its Indian dominions to China
and back again. was, including imports and exports, in the year
1820-21, 602,0001. in the year 1826-27, it was 362,0001. In the
same years respectively, the private trade between India and China
was, at the beginning of the seven yeat5,3,328.0001. and at the et d
3,764,0001. Su with regard to the British and China trade, for eat n
a much longer series of years. In 1814.15, the Company's Bil-
dt& trade with Cbina was 2,900,0001. in 1827-28 it was above
100,0001 less; while the private trade at the same period had in-
creased from 2,570000 on 3,760,0001. Again, the amount of
British manufacture exported to India by the Company in 1814-15,
was 787,0001.; in 1828-29, it had fallen to 5911.0001. While the
Company's trade with its own territories has been so declining,
what, under many restraints and hindrances, has been the growth
of the private trade with India? In 1814-15 it amounted to up-
wards of 200.000 000 of rupees; in 1828-29, to upwards of
36 000,1.00 In 1814-15, the invoice value of the Company's
trade between England and China was ;,,950,000; in 1827-8. it
was 2,69 40001.—a falling off to 10 per cent! But the American
home trade with Canton has more than doubled in eleven year.,
front 1815-16 to 1826-7. As ag.sitist the Briti-h consumer,
however, the Company knows how to drive a thrifty bargain.—
Front a table of the cost price: of tea imported by tiles: monopo-
lists into Great Britain, it appears that they buy at about Is. 3d.
per lb. and sell at about 2s. 4d.; a prat of 90 per cent. levied in
great part upon the working classes of the inhabitants of this coun-
try. A comparison between the prices for which an English family
can purchase tea front Ltadenhall-street, and an American. French,
or Dutch family cast have the %tame contort from a private trader,
Forms an instructive, though somewhat mortifying branch of the
in:ormation contained in the Parliamentary return.

MEETING IN GALWAY TO I'OTE AN

ADDRESS TO LORD F. L. GOWER.

From the Limerick Chriniide.
Wednesday a meeting of the inhabitants of Galway took pl sc..,
on a Requisition to the Mayor, tot the purpose of voting an Ad.
dress to Lord Francis Levison Gower, the Chief Secretary of Ire-
land, on his visiting that town and neighbourhood.
The Merin' was in the Chair, and a lengthened Address was
proposed and read by Mr. LACHLAN 31P LACHLAN, which emeraced
several topics, alluding to the many advantages which the country
had derived troth the impartial manlier in which the Noble Secre-
tary had conducted the affairs of Government, and the decided
part he had taken in the late great affair of Emancipation.
Counsellor BLANK seC4Hided the Address.
The Rev. Mr. lisicoz P.P. condemned a part of the Address
which alluded to the Chief Secretary's impartial adnunistratien of
justice. The Rev. Gentleman alluded in v.ry strong terms of
animadversion to the late affairs in T irper:.rv, and the mintier in
which the trials had been conducted by the Crown.
At this ps:t bid the Mersin. called Mr. Roche to order, and there
was much noise amt dissatisfaction at such observetions.
Mr. Romig insisted that if he was allowed to proceed, he would
be enabled to show that the Address ought not to be carried at all.
Mr. Beam% the Chief Rentembrancer, stood up, and said he was
astonished is hear the Rev. Gentlernait make use of such language.
The allusions to the Chief Secretary were as unmerited as they
were uncalled for; he could not by possibility in any way
have been c.sonected with those trials. The Trial by Jury
was a subject that all should respect, and none should agyroach
the discussion of it but with gum caution. It was well known
that Govvtnnient themselves could not get Juries to do as they
might approve at times ; and Lord Lieuten int% have. as ind:vidu.l.,
been likewise defeated in that object. After some other suitable
remarks, Mr. Blake dismissed the subject in the most affable aad
gentlematslike manner.
In speaking to the Address, Counsellor BLAU entered into a
review of the conduct of the Corporation in persevering to exclude
Roman Catholics from the privile4es which the Emancivtion
had given then], and said they were the only people in the kingdom
who still remained enslaved; for whilst they were kept without
the portals of that Corporation, there was a barrier between them
mid their Protestant brethren, and, therefore, must be considered
in a state of bondage.
The Nlaroa interrupted Mr. Make, and said that the subject
upon which he was addressing the Meeting might he a very good
one fur another day, but he did not see what it had to do with the
present Meeting, which was merely to congratulate a Nobleman
on his arrival among them ; and begged he would confine himself
to the terms expressed in the Requisition.
Mr. Mass explained, and hoped the visit of Lord F. L. Gower
would ultimately be of advantage to this hitherto neglected dis-
trict, for which nature had done so much, sod Government so
little. He was glad to say, notwithstanding all its disadvantages,
that Galway was advancing in agriculture and commerce ; and the
best proof he could give of it was the unerring fact of the great in-
crease of the Excise and Customs, which had accumulated to nearly
twenty fold within a few years.
Mr. Rums., Port Collector. said he was happy to bear testi-
mony to that fact ; and congratulated the Meeting on the visit of
the Noble Secretary and his amiable Consort. It was pleasing to
hint to have been instrumental in that visit ; and how the Noble
Secretary gave up his intended visit to Connainara, he could not
tell, übe knew he had resolved upon it. Mr. Reilly regretted it
much, as, Wit had no other result but to make it " fashionable," it
would have been of advantage.
The Mama having left the Chair, the Right Rev. Dr. Fentos
was called thereto, and a vote of thanks was proposed to the Mayor
for his dignified conduct, to which Dr. French added " and for
the snug manner in which he keeps the Key of the Corporation in
his pocket."—(Lubd laughter.)
A resolution was also passed, that the Address should he pre-
seined by the Mayor, Mr. Itake, C.R. and Mr. bPLachlan, but
the Deputation was Increased to six of seven more on the proposi-
tion of other individuals ; to which the Mayor, in order, as he
said, to make the party a pleasant one, proposed to add Dr. Remit.

KEAN commenced an engagement at Edinburgh on
Thursday in the character of Richard Mr Third, and was warmly
welcomed by a brilliant and overflowing house.
During the present season the Wasdale hounds, be-
longing to Messrs. TYSON and H VDDLESTON, have
killed the astonishing number of thirty-three foxes, in-
cluding a few cubs, hut the greater part were old and
full-grown.
Tun GAOLER'S SON MADE A PRINCE.—In 1775,
two illustrious personages of the French nation travelled
in Italy incognito, under the title of the Count and
Countess de Joinville, and on the 16th of April in that
year, at the small town of Mod4iana, upon the top
of the Appenines, the iady was brought to boil of a
daughter. Actuated by ambitious motives, these pa-
rents exchanged their infant daughter for the son of
the gaoler of the town, named Chiappini, whose wife
hippened to be also brought to bed at the same
time, and whose son has consequently enjoye 1 the
rank and fortune to which the ether infant was born.
This usurpation continued for many years, but the fraud
has lately been brought to light. The proofs are sufficient
to bring conviction to any impartial mind, and a regular
sentence in the proper Ecclesiastical Court of Faenza has
been pronounced upon the clearest evidence, and esta-
blishes the fact. The father long since suffered a violent
death—the mother survived until about eight years ago ;
and no doubt is entertained that these parents in their life-
time confided certain papers and documents regarding this
affair to persons then in their confidence. These docu-
ments are of vital importance to the supplanted daughter,
and every exertion is now making to discover them.
A Fe aloes BULL.—On Wednesday evening last the
cowman of Mr. Bradshaw, cf Aughton-hall, near Pres-
ton, was proceeding with a bull belonging to that Gen-
tleman to Garstang, to be shown for the premiums at
the meeting held on the following day, when, soon after
starting, the beast became infuriateu, and, getting the
man down, so injured him by trampling upon him, and
goring him with his horns, that his life is likely to be
lost by the misfortune. A sailor happened to be passing
by, and saw the unfortunate situation of the poor man,
and with the greatest gallantry gave combat to the beast,
but could not by any blows from a heavy stick divert its
attention from its object of attack, when, with great
presence of mind, he got a stone, threw it with all his
might and, hitting the bull in a tender part, the beaten
brute set off, roaring and galloping back to its home.
The unfortunate man had been warned of the bad pro-
pensity of the bull, but was hardy enough to venture
himself alone with it. Had he regarded the caution, the
misfortune would most probably have been prevented.