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London, England, 1816-05-13 00:00:00

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LONDON;

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-MORROW AT THREE O'CLOCK THE LOTTERY
BEGINS DRAWING, AND BONUS CEASES.
MAY B ALL
?Fats vtitsT DAY, NsID FIRST PP.IZE
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MONDAY, MAY 13, 1816.
GCB OF SToCKs THIS DAY AT '1 WELVE O'CLOCK;
pigdwd 60a —Cons. aio. 62i—for acc. 629
4 pe: Cent 74,4*-5 par Cam Boads is. Zs. pr.
00, oil—Exch. Bills 2s. slis. par. •
The Corn Market experienced another rise this
wain, Wheat is up to 100 s. per quarter, acd
goer 05s. a sack.

Bill for regulating the duties on Soap will, it
is bnped, receive particular attention before h is
paged into a law. It would be very unjust to alledge,
salotee have insinuated, that this Bill has originated
from any other motive than a wish to do good. lu
Egg, Ministers can have no secret end to serve, and
ilia to be presumed will give due attention to any
arguments against the Bill which may deserve serious
attention. Its professed object is to lower the duty
pi Soft Soap 7s per Cwt. and to lay on an equal ad-
ion on Hard Soap—and the ostensible reason is the
ecourageektireftlle Whale Fishery, by riser-easing
the consumption of Soft Soap made of oil, and lea.
ening the consumption of Hard S sap made of tal-
ks, brought, as is alledged, from Russia and South
America.
Now it is true that we import Tallow from other
countries; but it is equally true that the principal con-
sumption of our own tallow is in the manufacture of
bud soap, and the proportion of British tallow to that
of Foreign so employed, is as tour to one. The whole
annual codumption of the former is nearly 80,000
tons, a circumstance of no small moment to the agri
cultural interest. Nor is this the only point to be con-
aimed as segarsling our own soil, or, in other words,
our domestic prosperity.—ln the manufacture of hard
soap; the tallow 'is neutralized to the saponacious
point with kelp, while in the manufacture of soft
soap iugredients chiefly of foreign production are
employed. The manufacture of kelp gives employ-
ment to many thousand people on the coasts of Scot-
land and Ireland, and the sale of the article is a
source of great income to the landholders on the sea
shore.

May other arguments might be offered to excite
doubts as to the propriety of hastily introducing a
stooge of the kind proposed. It is true that the in.
uoduction of gas 104 by reducing the demand for
oil, has lessened, and must still more reduce, the ten-
rage employed in the whale fisheries. But it does
sot follow that it must be generally beneficial to
ikaintaiu the:e fisheries beyond the natural detuaml.,
lithe tonnage or Whalers lessen, that of colliers must
increase : nor should efforts ever be made to prop by
artificial means particular trades, reduced in their
meta by use rise of new manufactures. Look at the
increased &mold for cast iron required for gas pipes.
Recollect that all this, and the coal required for its ma-

aufacture are dug from the bowels of our own soil, that
the tallow and kelp employed in making hard soap
are also British products; that to a certain extent .the
quantity of Tallow now used in candles will even.
tually be reduced by the use of Gas. Let these facts
be examined! and it will, we think, 'appear evident
that nothing should be done that is calculated to
lessen the demand for British Tallow to be manufac-
tured into soap for British consumption, and which,
by its circulation, returns the capital to the British
soil If the relative demand for bard and soft
soap be not disturbed by any injudicious regulo-
tins, the Landholder has a security for the con-
ntoption of his tallow in the quantity now required
to be imported, and which by being excluded
at any future period from competition, will leave
Lilt a sure mat ket—but it will be otherwise with him
vhto the gas light shall have redu&d the demand
for candles, if the substitution of soft for hard soap
Walt() have reduced the consumption of tallow in
that branch of manufacture.
If Revenue be the object of-the. Bill it should not
bt called a Bill for Regukting the Duties—lf revenue
bt the object, increase the duty on both hard and soft
sop if necessary, but do nothing to disturb the rela-
tivedemand for each at them. Aut theie ought to
much consideration before the duty be any way
increased, for, independent of the demand for soap in
many of our staple manufactures, and the addition
which this would cause in the price of their products,
tleanliness is a prime source ( f sound health, and it
is fOr the general welfare of the community that we
t"'Illd have a sound and vigorous population.

Brussels Papers to the I ith May arrived this morn-
ing, but they contain no news.
We have received the,Paris Papers of the 9th inst.
A change has taken place in the French MinistryM.
VAUBLANC, the Minister of the Interior, and M.
Bans Manson, the Minister of Justice, have re-
signed. M. LAZNE, late President of the Chamber
Of Deputies, succeeds M VAUBLANC. We find that
there is really something like an unsettled or revolu-
-6047 spirit prevalent in France. The private letters
sPe.lt of regular conspitacirs being on foot, and of
tha seizure of the ringleaders ; while the journals
themselves allude to the same subject, obscurely it is
buts but with sufficient point to cause alarm to the
Pasant Government. .
By an article in the French journals, from the Me-
te ttanean. Lord SXIIOUTSI has persuaded. or per-
-48 compelled, one of the Barbary Powers to stipu-
lates that in case of fume wars his prisoners of war
htia not be made slavcej but traltlid AS plows of
1114 ye in gutope.